{"id":1975,"date":"2008-10-25T22:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-25T22:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1975"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:16:51","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:16:51","slug":"31st-tulsa-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1975","title":{"rendered":"31st Tulsa Run"},"content":{"rendered":"

I ran my 15th consecutive Tulsa Run 15K Saturday morning. I love running it. It is the perfect race, Its a doable length, it is in the Fall and you get free candy bars and beer.<\/p>\n

Running it is kind of like a dream. I don’t go internal, I go external. I’m aware of the wind, the sun on my face, the scenery, the other runners. It seems like I start, and then its over, I’ve lose all track of time, and don’t remember much.<\/p>\n

I like to get their early. My office is right near the starting line. So I get there early and read my book. Where its warm. When I got there, the sun was just coming up.<\/p>\n

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About 15 minutes before start time, I go down to the starting line. Where it is cold.<\/div>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Then the gun is shot and off we go! I took my camera and was I going to document the run. I only took a few photos and then quit taking the camera out. It was messing with being external and just taking everything in for the moment.<\/div>\n

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One thing I missed was the Troops from Fort Sill. They are in Iraq this year. They had a parallel Tulsa Run there in Iraq today that they ran. 15 K.<\/p>\n

The thing I heard this year that I hadn’t notice before was the sound of thousands of feet hitting the pavement.<\/p>\n

I finished in a shade under 1 hour 40 minutes. The best time I had in years. I was lagging at 14K and thinking about taking a break. A friend of church, (I’ll call him “Sinatra Doc” because he is a surgeon who likes to listen to that kind of music during operations. ) came up on me and helped keep me going. Ironically he had to stop and walk because he was cramping very badly. Being the good friend that I am I left him behind and ran on in. I didn’t see him again. I heard his wife’s name called at the finish line ahead of me.<\/p>\n

I grabbed my two snickers bars, a beer, and headed home. I was hurtin.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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