{"id":447,"date":"2013-05-05T09:49:15","date_gmt":"2013-05-05T16:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rubschlager.com\/matt\/?p=447"},"modified":"2013-05-05T09:49:15","modified_gmt":"2013-05-05T16:49:15","slug":"2013-rock-and-roll-12-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/2013-rock-and-roll-12-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"2013 Rock and Roll 1\/2 Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I find myself asking &#8220;why not&#8221; of a number of 1\/2 marathons here in the Portland area.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/runrocknroll.competitor.com\/portland\">Rock and Roll<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.runwithpaula.com\/helvetia-half-marathon-widmer-brothers-10k\">Helvetia Half<\/a>, and I&#8217;m sure I can dig up a couple others as the season progresses.<\/p>\n<p>After coming off of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagomarathon.com\/\">Chicago Marathon<\/a> last year I kept up the weekly mileage and repeated long runs of 6, 8, 10, and 12 miles each Saturday.  On the longest of the long runs I&#8217;m only a mile and change short of a 1\/2 so why not exchange the lone runner experience for a group event.<\/p>\n<p>Realizing this I pulled the tigger and registered for the Rock and Roll 1\/2.  Another motivating factor was the course.  Rather than the typical Portland route of up into the northern industrial area and back down towards <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohsu.edu\/xd\/\">OHSU<\/a> on the west side of the Willamette, this one starts and finishes on the west side, but crosses over and spends a large portion of the course on the east side.  Even if I wasn&#8217;t trained up I might have registered for this reason alone.<\/p>\n<p>Wish me luck since it is only a couple weeks away, and help me keep my fingers crossed for fair weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find myself asking &#8220;why not&#8221; of a number of 1\/2 marathons here in the Portland area. The Rock and Roll, the Helvetia Half, and I&#8217;m sure I can dig up a couple others as the season progresses. After coming off of the Chicago Marathon last year I kept up the weekly mileage and repeated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}