{"id":1097,"date":"2014-06-14T16:20:47","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T23:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2015-04-24T01:37:23","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T08:37:23","slug":"a-few-thoughts-before-running-my-first-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/a-few-thoughts-before-running-my-first-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"a few thoughts before running my first marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In about ten hours I will be running my first marathon. My good friend and neighbor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/Brian-Marron\">Brian<\/a> will be running his first half-marathon. We&#8217;ve\u00a0been training for months, but there&#8217;s still that sense of nervousness and anticipation.\u00a0(Or: butterflies in the stomach, so to speak).<\/p>\n<p>Good for motivation. <em>Not so good for sleeping.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never been to Amersfoort before. It&#8217;s about 30 km away from Utrecht, and I hear it has a gorgeous city center.<\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s our last month here in Utrecht as exchange students. Running the marathon would be (or at least I thought at the time) a good way to end the year well. One more personal challenge before heading out.<\/p>\n<p>Our good friends and neighbors said they would come watch and support us while we ran. That&#8217;s a warm feeling, to know that someone is cheering you on.<\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a bit worried about nipple chaffing, especially after seeing some photos from Google Images. But I will worry about running the race first.<\/p>\n<p>My goal is to cross that finish line.\u00a0A good meal with good company afterwards would be lovely, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In about ten hours I will be running my first marathon. My good friend and neighbor Brian will be running his first half-marathon. We&#8217;ve\u00a0been training for months, but there&#8217;s still that sense of nervousness and anticipation.\u00a0(Or: butterflies in the stomach, so to speak). Good for motivation. Not so good for sleeping. ~ I&#8217;ve never been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/a-few-thoughts-before-running-my-first-marathon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;a few thoughts before running my first marathon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,22,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-misc","category-netherlands"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3MSpn-hH","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1100,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions\/1100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}