{"id":1337,"date":"2016-02-07T06:31:23","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T06:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sch1auh0s7.site.nfoservers.com\/wp_lew1slau\/?p=1337"},"modified":"2022-03-12T07:27:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T07:27:01","slug":"my-first-and-last-marathon-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/07\/my-first-and-last-marathon-attempt\/","title":{"rendered":"My first (and last Marathon) attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-121-767x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1338\" width=\"575\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-121-767x1024.png 767w, https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-121-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-121-768x1026.png 768w, https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-121.png 843w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After my 1\/2 in October, I decided that perhaps I was ready for a full. With my 1:49 finish time of 13.1 miles I planned a finish time for a full 26.2 of around 4 hours.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My training went well until I had to do the LONG runs (20 miles and above) where I usually \u2018hit the wall\u2019 somewhere past 18 miles\u2026&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Julia saw how miserable I was training for this distance (and even had to pick me up from an abandoned training run), and made me promise that this would be my first and last run\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img_9154.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-122.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1339\" width=\"438\" height=\"586\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-122.png 584w, https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-122-224x300.png 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 438px) 100vw, 438px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Race day went amazingly great (exactly on target pace) from miles 0-20, but went to a <strong>complete crashing halt <\/strong>from miles 20-24, where all I could do was walk-jog-limp my way through\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img_9152.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-123.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1340\" width=\"975\" height=\"696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-123.png 975w, https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-123-300x214.png 300w, https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-123-768x548.png 768w, https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-123-872x622.png 872w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 975px) 100vw, 975px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Learned my lesson. I\u2019m proud to have finished a full marathon, but I think I\u2019ll stick with improving my times with HMs from now on!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After my 1\/2 in October, I decided that perhaps I was ready for a full. With my 1:49 finish time of 13.1 miles I planned a finish time for a full 26.2 of around 4 hours.&nbsp; My training went well until I had to do the LONG runs (20 miles and above) where I usually&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-121.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1341,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions\/1341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}