{"id":52,"date":"2010-03-15T13:31:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T13:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=52"},"modified":"2010-03-15T13:31:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T13:31:06","slug":"inverness-half-marathon-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/15\/inverness-half-marathon-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Inverness Half Marathon 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_53\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/15\/inverness-half-marathon-2010\/inverness_half_2010_john\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"53\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/inverness_half_2010_john.jpg\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/inverness_half_2010_john.jpg?fit=500%2C747&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,747\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Inverness Half start\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;John before the start of the race&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/inverness_half_2010_john.jpg?fit=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/inverness_half_2010_john.jpg?fit=500%2C747&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/inverness_half_2010_john-200x300.jpg?resize=200%2C300\" alt=\"Inverness Half Marathon 2010\" title=\"Inverness Half start\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-53\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/inverness_half_2010_john.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/inverness_half_2010_john.jpg?resize=100%2C150&amp;ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/inverness_half_2010_john.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John before the start of the race. Picture (Gary Anthony) courtesy of SPP<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nI was taking part in the Inverness Half Marathon yesterday on a warm and showery &#8216;spring&#8217; day. More than 1300 runners finished the race and I completed it in 1hr 48mins 8secs, which I am delighted with considering the lack of running I have been doing this winter.<\/p>\n<p>It was tough work and I felt a bit of cramp coming in after 10 miles (a sure sign of a lack of training) but I kept going at a reasonable pace to break 1hr 50mins. There was a great atmosphere as usual, despite the old fella who decided he was going to reverse into his drive while a stream of runners were on the pavement!<\/p>\n<p>That was my fifth Inverness Half and &#8211; at last &#8211; the organisers have changed the final mile so you don&#8217;t have to go round the back of the running track before entering the stadium. You&#8217;re obviously running the same distance but that change made the finish all the sweeter!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was taking part in the Inverness Half Marathon yesterday on a warm and showery &#8216;spring&#8217; day. More than 1300 runners finished the race and I completed it in 1hr 48mins 8secs, which I am delighted with considering the lack of running I have been doing this winter. It was tough work and I felt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[6,5],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5M0xs-Q","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59,"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}