“It’s someone’s 60th birthday today!”<\/p>\n
I went with some rowing team lads to\u00a0Hellas<\/a>,\u00a0the local athletic and triathlon club. Someone in the club\u00a0decided to celebrate their special day with a 10+ km race, so the first thing everyone did was sing the happy birthday song on the track. Only then would the race start.<\/p>\n The Dutch as a whole are quite active when it comes to sports and exercise. The weather isn’t enough of a deterrent to have everyone hole up in their homes, although that wasn’t an issue today. Utrecht had good sunshine for once, and I learned a few new routes around the forest to run around later.<\/p>\n ~<\/p>\n There were kids half my height and seniors three times my age running the same race I was — and beating me, too. Should I feel embarrassed or inspired? Perhaps a bit of both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “It’s someone’s 60th birthday today!” I went with some rowing team lads to\u00a0Hellas,\u00a0the local athletic and triathlon club. Someone in the club\u00a0decided to celebrate their special day with a 10+ km race, so the first thing everyone did was sing the happy birthday song on the track. Only then would the race start. The Dutch … Continue reading “Hellas Atletiek, 10K”<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netherlands"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3MSpn-9g","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","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=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":579,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions\/579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}