{"id":11615,"date":"2017-12-10T20:27:10","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T02:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=11615"},"modified":"2022-04-27T07:15:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T12:15:13","slug":"2017-runners-world-half-n-half-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=11615","title":{"rendered":"2017 Runners World Half N Half Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"_DSC0665\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/38972514761\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4552\/38972514761_8b6d64f520_z.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC0665\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.runnersworldtulsa.com\/events.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Half N Half Marathon<\/a> is a unique race where one can run a trail half marathon or a road half marathon or do both halves. It is one of those quirky things about running that I love. Runners are never just happy running races, many of them like to add little twists and kinks to it. I was planning on running the trail half this year but the running gods intervened and I have a knee injury and I am waiting for the insurance company to okay physical therapy with the help of a legal <a href=\"https:\/\/bengallaw.com\">resource<\/a> and in the meantime I am hobbling around. So I wanted to do something for this race and I decided to just go out and take photos of the contestants all on my own with asking permission or anything. I I loaded up the Nikon and off I went.<\/p>\n<p>Both races start at the same time and I couldn&#8217;t get to the start line so I parked on the upper parking lot at Turkey Mountain and found a good place to take photos and just stayed there and shot a couple hundred shots.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"_DSC0746\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/38255643824\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4565\/38255643824_0b787516d0_z.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC0746\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I am a picture taker and not a photographer and my shots prove it. Talk about cutting off people&#8217;s heads and feet and slicing them vertically and getting their faces in shadows. I did it all!!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"_DSC0770\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/24106815397\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4521\/24106815397_e4be8599b6_z.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC0770\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It was fun though. It reminded me that everybody in a race is running a different race. The leaders are racing against each other. Lots of people make it a social event. Some people have a personal goal they are trying to achieve, others are just out there for being outside. There are as many reasons as there entrants. The leaders are hitting it hard and it shows but most of the rest of the people look pretty darn happy.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"_DSC0795\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/25099468628\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4578\/25099468628_d821f642ff_z.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC0795\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I was totally jealous!!!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"_DSC0917\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/27192121159\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4533\/27192121159_ba415fb0b1_z.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC0917\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>After the last of the trail runners went by I hobbled back to the car and drove down to Riverside Drive where the Road Runners were. I found a good spot and took a bunch more photos.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"_DSC0905\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/38253759884\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4725\/38253759884_3742be30e5_z.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC0905\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I saw a lot of the same thing. Really fast front runners and a lot of smiles. Runners are a happy lot.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"_DSC0865\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/38933645162\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4550\/38933645162_101a8bff66_z.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC0865\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I have never been waved at so much in my life. I might do this again.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"_DSC0878\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/24105203177\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4534\/24105203177_415b3f67c9_z.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC0878\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I am still very jealous though.<\/p>\n<p>I uploaded my several hundred photos into a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/alanbbates\/media_set?set=a.10215829394274796.1073741848.1443181969&amp;type=3&amp;pnref=story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> facebook album<\/a>\u00a0and then shared that with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rwtulsa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Runners World facebook page<\/a>. it seems to be pretty well received. I didn&#8217;t really know how people would react.<\/p>\n<h1>I am linking with <a href=\"http:\/\/ourworldtuesdaymeme.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Our World Tuesday<\/a><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Half N Half Marathon is a unique race where one can run a trail half marathon or a road half marathon or do both halves. It is one of those quirky things about running that I love. Runners are never just happy running races, many of them like to add little twists and kinks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-world-tuesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11615"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13877,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11615\/revisions\/13877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}