{"id":122,"date":"2009-10-27T23:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T03:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/?p=122"},"modified":"2010-01-01T20:03:51","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T00:03:51","slug":"the-marine-corp-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/?p=122","title":{"rendered":"The Marine Corp Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/DSCN1986_.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137 alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"DSCN1986_\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/DSCN1986_-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"132\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/DSCN1986_-220x300.jpg 220w, http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/DSCN1986_-751x1024.jpg 751w, http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/DSCN1986_.jpg 1986w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 132px) 100vw, 132px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/DSCN1991.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-140 alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"DSCN1991\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/DSCN1991-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/DSCN1991-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/DSCN1991-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a>I provided support sherpa services to a friend running the Marine Corp Marathon over the weekend. I had run this marathon in 2003 on as part of my four marathon extravaganza that year, running four marathons in four consecutive weekends: Chicago, Baltimore, Marine Corp, and New York City.<br \/>\nThe Marine Corp Marathon in 2003 was described to me as the best organized event and also known as The People&#8217;s Marathon. My experience was that the marathon was sufficiently managed and executed, neither extraordinarily better nor worse than any other marathons that I had run. The finisher medal as adequate, but I don&#8217;t recall getting a T-shirt in the runner&#8217;s packet, as is the practice of most other marathons.<\/p>\n<p>The marathon this weekend past was again decently run, but there was a nice long sleeved shirt in the goody bag. V-22 Ospreys made fly-bys at the start line, and the official starter must have been a hasher because he called out &#8220;on-on, marathon&#8221; over the PA system just prior to the starting gun. The finisher&#8217;s medal was a big honking Eagle, Globe, Anchor hunk of metal, and all finishers also received a Marine Corp Marathon coin, admittedly not in as heavy a weight as a challenge coin.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend eventually degenerated into us concluding that I must have run the Marine Corp Marathon during the sucky years, which has resolved me to return to running marathons. Right up front, I want to start my season with the Chicago marathon in 2010, and I definitely have the Marine Corp Marathon in my sights as well. Other possibilities are to sandwich in the Baltimore marathon, and\/or the Wineglass Marathon in Corning, NY. Oorah!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I provided support sherpa services to a friend running the Marine Corp Marathon over the weekend. I had run this marathon in 2003 on as part of my four marathon extravaganza that year, running four marathons in four consecutive weekends: Chicago, Baltimore, Marine Corp, and New York City. The Marine Corp Marathon in 2003 was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148,"href":"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}