{"id":432,"date":"2010-08-06T18:17:24","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T22:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/?p=432"},"modified":"2010-08-06T18:17:24","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T22:17:24","slug":"a-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/2010\/08\/06\/a-chase\/","title":{"rendered":"A Chase!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I passed a guy at the base of Great Hill who looked as if he was about to start a run.  Based on his legs, I could tell he was a superior runner.  I guessed he was going just to do hill work.  However, I was wrong.  As I climbed Great Hill, he eventually overtook me.  A quarter-mile later, I caught him and overtook him.  A quarter-mile later, he caught me and overtook me.  I came within striking distance of him over the next mile and a quarter, but eventually he got ahead of me as I turned off for a water fountain.  The guy I chased helped me to run one mile at 6:51, and another mile at 6:44.  This, in 86-degree weather, fortunately with humidity around 30%.  (It felt a little more humid than that, but a wind did cool things some.)  I did 6.28 miles today in Central Park in 45:53 (7:18s), my second-fastest time over that distance this year.  The fastest distance was in 74-degree weather.  Here are today&#8217;s deets:<br \/>\n<iframe width='465' height='548' frameborder='0' src='http:\/\/connect.garmin.com:80\/activity\/embed\/43409019'><\/iframe><br \/>\nNo injuries at all, though just as I was leaving my apartment, I felt some twinging in my left knee around where the IT band problem I had was.  Nothing developed though.<\/p>\n<p>And I thought of doing 8 miles, even 10 miles today.  Given my speed, I figured that was a good enough workout for today.<\/p>\n<p>There you have it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I passed a guy at the base of Great Hill who looked as if he was about to start a run. Based on his legs, I could tell he was a superior runner. I guessed he was going just to do hill work. However, I was wrong. As I climbed Great Hill, he eventually overtook &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/2010\/08\/06\/a-chase\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Chase!<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-runs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","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=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}