{"id":792016,"date":"2016-10-25T02:17:19","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T02:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/?p=792016"},"modified":"2017-12-05T08:52:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T08:52:32","slug":"urban-cow-half-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2016\/10\/25\/urban-cow-half-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Cow Half Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another half marathon in the books! This one was kind of special to me for a few reasons:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>my very first half marathon was the Urban Cow five years ago. I had trained hard for it and my time was 2:49:53<\/li>\n<li>this race had a huge turnout with women from my run club. It was great seeing so many running the course as well as cheering us along. I almost always had someone to run with.<\/li>\n<li>As always, I was tired at the end. Another woman from my club was near me and she was running her first half. I ran with her all the way in for the last mile. We pushed each other for the final stretch. As a result, I ended up with the time 2:49:09!!! A new PR by 44 seconds!! HA!! Five years later and 15 pounds heavier. I am pretty proud of this accomplishment.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-792017 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_4752-e1477361170667-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"img_4752\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_4752-e1477361170667-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_4752-e1477361170667-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_4752-e1477361170667-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nMy friend Mindy ran this and I was able to keep up with her for a little while. It looks like the cow is eating my head!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-792018\" src=\"http:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_4753-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"img_4753\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_4753-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_4753-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_4753-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nanother friend of mine, LoriDawn, and I ran together for a while as well. \u00a0She and I were run buddies for her first half marathon at Peace, Love, Run back in March. We found each other around mile eight and ran together until around mile eleven. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-792019\" src=\"http:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_4755-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"img_4755\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_4755-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_4755-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_4755-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nPizza celebration with some of the gang after.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-792020\" src=\"http:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_4757-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"img_4757\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_4757-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_4757-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_4757-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nThe group shot of all the runners from our run club. I think we had about 120!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-792021\" src=\"http:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_4762-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"img_4762\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_4762-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_4762-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_4762-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_4762.jpg 1334w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another half marathon in the books! This one was kind of special to me for a few reasons: my very first half marathon was the Urban Cow five years ago. I had trained hard for it and my time was 2:49:53 this race had a huge turnout with women from my run club. It was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-792016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lets-get-active"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792016"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":793527,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792016\/revisions\/793527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}