{"id":12621,"date":"2020-03-14T13:11:39","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T18:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=12621"},"modified":"2020-03-16T20:41:45","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T01:41:45","slug":"2020-tulsa-saint-patricks-day-5k-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=12621","title":{"rendered":"2020 Tulsa Saint Patrick&#8217;s Day 5K Race"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-flickr wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2iE8XsE\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49658336798_c8eece0086.jpg\" alt=\"DSCF9820\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I ran in Tulsa&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sook.org\/stpatrun\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Saint Patrick's Day 5K (opens in a new tab)\">Saint Patrick&#8217;s Day 5K<\/a> race Saturday. I was tempted not to run it because it was cold (about 42F at race time) and raining. But I had the right tech gear and decided to go ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-flickr wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2iEbJNi\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49658879541_86968c4c3c.jpg\" alt=\"DSCF9821\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Heck of a shot of me here right? This isn&#8217;t going in the family album I&#8217;ll tell you. I do like my $7.49 cent top from Walmart a lot though. I am very visible. I was also very wet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-flickr wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2iEbJoW\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49658878186_3c6c4b422e.jpg\" alt=\"DSCF9822\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I decided to actually run this race a little bit especially at first and it worked pretty well. I got warmed up in a hurry for one thing. I would run a block and walk a block. Sometimes I&#8217;d run two blocks if we were going downhill. I was just going with the flow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-flickr wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2iE8Wfe\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49658332713_27381bc693.jpg\" alt=\"DSCF9823\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here come the two leaders. They actually look like they are running. Me and these two guys swept the top two spots!! Aren&#8217;t you proud of me?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-flickr wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2iEbHzw\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49658875436_403749708f.jpg\" alt=\"DSCF9824\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After a pretty good interval, here came the third place guy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-flickr wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2iE8Vrf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49658329988_47ede76da6.jpg\" alt=\"DSCF9825\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are my peeps in the back of the pack crowd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/modern\/activity\/embed\/4654977900\" title=\"Tulsa Saint Patrick's Day 5K\" width=\"465\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>So I was pretty pleased with my 43:50 time. I think that time is when I got to the starting line. my &#8220;gun time&#8221; which is official is more like 45 minutes or so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/saint-patricks-day-5k-finishers-certificate-1024x538.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/saint-patricks-day-5k-finishers-certificate-1024x538.png 1024w, https:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/saint-patricks-day-5k-finishers-certificate-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/saint-patricks-day-5k-finishers-certificate-768x403.png 768w, https:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/saint-patricks-day-5k-finishers-certificate-624x328.png 624w, https:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/saint-patricks-day-5k-finishers-certificate.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So I finished 16th out of 18 in my age group. I was pleased that that I was able to run about half the race. It&#8217;s been about three years since I actually ran a race. It took about a year and half for my knees to quit hurting them so I baby them pretty good. I rarely run, I walk a lot, and do lots of the elliptical machine, bicycling, resistance training and yoga. I am going to continue babying my knees. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kudos to the race sponsor, Special Olympics, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Runners World Tulsa (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.runnersworldtulsa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Runners World Tulsa<\/a> who always puts on a great race, the race director, the other sponsors, and the army of volunteers who make it all happen. It was cold and rainy but it was a great race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am linking with <a href=\"http:\/\/ourworldtuesdaymeme.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Our World Tuesday (opens in a new tab)\"><strong>Our World Tuesday<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ran in Tulsa&#8217;s Saint Patrick&#8217;s Day 5K race Saturday. I was tempted not to run it because it was cold (about 42F at race time) and raining. But I had the right tech gear and decided to go ahead. Heck of a shot of me here right? This isn&#8217;t going in the family album [&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,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[2610,2612],"class_list":["post-12621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-world-tuesday","tag-5k-race","tag-march-2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12621"}],"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=12621"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12627,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12621\/revisions\/12627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}