{"id":238,"date":"2009-07-11T00:44:18","date_gmt":"2009-07-11T05:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=238"},"modified":"2009-07-13T00:54:16","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T05:54:16","slug":"crazy-8s-8k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=238","title":{"rendered":"Crazy 8s 8K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The crazy 8s race in Kingsport, Tennessee was my first 8k race (on roads anyway).\u00a0\u00a0 It was attractive mainly because of the late night start time (10 pm).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_239\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-239\" style=\"width: 365px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-239\" title=\"c8_running\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/c8_running.jpg\" alt=\"Running in the Crazy 8s\" width=\"365\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/c8_running.jpg 365w, http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/c8_running-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-239\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Running in the Crazy 8s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>That&#8217;s me in the center with number 101.\u00a0 As usual, I get a low number due to alphabetic superiority.\u00a0 101 is much better than 1 though.\u00a0 When you have number 1 people actually expect you to be good.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_240\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-240\" style=\"width: 389px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-240\" title=\"c8_stadium\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/c8_stadium.jpg\" alt=\"Crazy 8s stadium finish\" width=\"389\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/c8_stadium.jpg 389w, http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/c8_stadium-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-240\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crazy 8s stadium finish<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The race itself is really impressive, along with the stadium finish portions of the course cover luminary-lit rural streets.\u00a0 Nearly every house along the course had people in the front yard.\u00a0 It appeared that all of Kingsport was out late for this event.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Incidentally, I did run the entire course and finish, survive, etc&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There were 1,950 runners in this race.\u00a0\u00a0 Orienteering races don&#8217;t have mass starts generally and the largest 5k race I had previously run in had probably 250 people in it.\u00a0 Lots of extra skills are needed here like not tripping over other runners and getting trampled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crazy 8s race in Kingsport, Tennessee was my first 8k race (on roads anyway).\u00a0\u00a0 It was attractive mainly because of the late night start time (10 pm). That&#8217;s me in the center with number 101.\u00a0 As usual, I get a low number due to alphabetic superiority.\u00a0 101 is much better than 1 though.\u00a0 When &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=238\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Crazy 8s 8K<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}