{"id":350,"date":"2009-05-17T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2009-05-17T12:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/?p=350"},"modified":"2009-05-17T20:39:04","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T00:39:04","slug":"running-the-lilac-5k-with-ali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2009\/05\/17\/running-the-lilac-5k-with-ali\/","title":{"rendered":"Running the Lilac 5K with Ali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2009\/05\/07\/a-rainy-barefoot-run\/\">If you recall<\/a>, I've been doing some running to work up to the 5 kilometer race in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medvedrunwalk.com\/\">The Medved Lilac 10K and 5K Family Fun Run<\/a><\/strong> which was today.<\/p>\n<p>I ran a \"long\" 5K run on Monday and Tuesday, then a \"short\" 2 mile run on Wednesday, and another \"long\" 5K run on Thursday <em>[hmm &#8230; like a train whistle warning a crossing]<\/em> before resting up for the race.  Well, I did it.  And yeah: barefoot.  And I even beat 30 minutes, finishing in 29:35 according to the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcrtiming.com\/2009.html#anchor_lilac10k\">PCR Timing Official Results<\/a><\/strong> for this years race (which placed me 397 of 864 overall and 21st among the 31 male 35-39 year-olds).  This is great because I beat my 35:58 official time for the Corporate Challenge in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Ali ran too and, despite admitting not training enough, ran for the whole race and finished in 37:31.<\/p>\n<p>But the remarkable serendipity of our runner numbers was the amusement of the day.  We were each given random numbers and she got #123 and I got #321.  The odds that I would get the same digits as her number in the reverse order was (given 864 runners) about 1 in 863.  If you figure on the specific combination of 123 and 321, that's something like 1 in 745,632.  Pretty neat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you recall, I've been doing some running to work up to the 5 kilometer race in The Medved Lilac 10K and 5K Family Fun Run which was today. I ran a \"long\" 5K run on Monday and Tuesday, then &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2009\/05\/17\/running-the-lilac-5k-with-ali\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[12,4,611],"tags":[1111,58,1109,1112,1110],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barefoot-running","category-blog-entries","category-for-the-parents","tag-5k","tag-ali","tag-lilac-5k","tag-palindrome","tag-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352,"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions\/352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}