{"id":139,"date":"2024-04-16T13:36:25","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T13:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chasingthearbitrary.co.uk\/?p=139"},"modified":"2024-04-16T13:36:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T13:36:25","slug":"rothay-parkrun-102","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chasingthearbitrary.co.uk\/?p=139","title":{"rendered":"Rothay Parkrun #102"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Look who\u2019s back in Ambleside. Twice in a month, what a treat. My initial plan was to get a 15 \u2013 20km run in with around 500m elevation to keep on track with my training plan, but the allure of standing in a park in the sopping wet and running the same loop 3 times was too alluring. I can do another run in the evening or tomorrow morning, a classic Wansfell loop or similar.  I also fell victim to the gotta go fast <\/em>mentality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I took what has become my place<\/em> at the start line, a couple metres left of the goalposts. Its not the best starting position tactically, but I have now become protective over it. The run started a few minutes late and I opted to leave my waterproof with the marshals to be picked up at the end. The lead group practically dried the ground they passed, moving with blistering speed I had no hope of holding onto. I instead tucked into a line of three youth runners. I had hoped that being in a pack would give me something to work for and push me to go that little bit faster. It did, for all of 1 lap. One glass of wine at dinner and good conversation turned into two as a new bottle was brought out, which turned into three then four. Then the whiskey. This week I didn\u2019t make the mistake of not eating but neglected to properly hydrate before bed and in the morning. I may never learn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rain continued to fall, and I continued to slow about 8 seconds every kilometre. This was a combination of going out too quick for my condition and the sheer number of runners who were out this week; 148 in total. This meant a lot of getting stuck in the alley towards millers field, a two way section of the course which is not two people wide. I still managed to put in a good final sprint, but my heart rate let me know it was all too much of an effort for today. I\u2019ll finish the distance and elevation tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

20:47<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Look who\u2019s back in Ambleside. Twice in a month, what a treat. My initial plan was to get a 15 \u2013 20km run in with around 500m elevation to keep on track with my training plan, but the allure of standing in a park in the sopping wet and running the same loop 3 times […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[27,19,29,9,30,6,10],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-race","tag-5km","tag-lake-district","tag-parkrun","tag-road","tag-rothay-park","tag-run","tag-trail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasingthearbitrary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasingthearbitrary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasingthearbitrary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasingthearbitrary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasingthearbitrary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chasingthearbitrary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"https:\/\/chasingthearbitrary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasingthearbitrary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasingthearbitrary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasingthearbitrary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}