{"id":334,"date":"2010-06-06T11:09:29","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T15:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/?p=334"},"modified":"2010-06-06T11:09:29","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T15:09:29","slug":"not-that-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/2010\/06\/06\/not-that-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"Not That Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I participated in the <a href=\"http:\/\/nyrr.org\/races\/2010\/r0606x00.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Japan Day &#8220;Japan Run&#8221; 4-Miler<\/a> in Central Park.  It was a humid morning, a little more than a half-day after completing my long run, and while I didn&#8217;t beat last year&#8217;s time of 27:47 or the time I got in a 4-mile race earlier this year (27:50), I got pretty darn close.  Take a look at my unofficial results per Garmin:<br \/>\n<iframe width='465' height='548' frameborder='0' src='http:\/\/connect.garmin.com:80\/activity\/embed\/35882629'><\/iframe><br \/>\nActually, these results almost identically match the official results.  Officially, I ran this race in 27:56, meaning I was doing 6:59s.  That&#8217;s a second slower of a pace from <a href=\"http:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/2010\/05\/09\/exceeded-my-goals\/\">the R Baby 4-Miler I did about a month ago<\/a>, but considering that that was in 44-degree weather and today&#8217;s run was in humid, 75-degree weather, I think I performed a bit better in today&#8217;s race.  I even got a final sprint in, which sounded as if it wowed the crowd at the finish line.  My time is not all that impressive, though, and I can&#8217;t wait until I start posting better times.<\/p>\n<p>Before the run I had a green tea to see if it would have an impact on my run.  (I didn&#8217;t notice anything.)  Going into the run, the medial side of my right lower leg was sensitive again!  However, it did not bother me throughout the run.  I wondered if adrenaline made it go away.<\/p>\n<p>We started on the 102nd St. Transverse, and I got pretty good speed in that first mile (6:36).  For the mile featuring Cat Hill (this race&#8217;s biggest hill), I posted a 7:35, but it seemed a bit slower than that.  When I hit the 3 Miles marker, I did a quick calculation and realized I had to hustle to beat my time: I had to run the final mile in about 7 minutes or less.  Fortunately it was mostly downhill, but given some of my recent history on that portion of Central Park, I didn&#8217;t let that fact let me get lazy.  I tried to keep my pace up and it was hard, but that final sprint as I rounded onto the Transverse again was wonderful.  I hit my Garmin button a few seconds after finishing but it seemed to be the perfect time to do so because it was apparently at the moment of my official time.<\/p>\n<p>I hope to have some photographs up soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I participated in the Japan Day &#8220;Japan Run&#8221; 4-Miler in Central Park. It was a humid morning, a little more than a half-day after completing my long run, and while I didn&#8217;t beat last year&#8217;s time of 27:47 or the time I got in a 4-mile race earlier this year (27:50), I got &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/2010\/06\/06\/not-that-bad\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Not That Bad<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4milers","category-races"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}