{"id":147,"date":"2008-08-10T19:28:14","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T02:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/?p=147"},"modified":"2008-08-10T19:28:14","modified_gmt":"2008-08-11T02:28:14","slug":"i-cant-believe-i-8-the-whole-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/?p=147","title":{"rendered":"I can’t believe I 8 the whole thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh that Nancy<\/a> — she’s at it again, making us run.\u00a0 Inspired by her trip to China, she once again held a virtual 8 on the 8th race on — you guessed it — 8\/8\/08 to coincide with the opening of the Beijing Olympics.<\/p>\n

Originally scheduled to run nine miles with seven at marathon race pace, I decided to up it to 10 with 8 @ MRP.\u00a0 However, given my late start I cut it back to 15K in order to make our dinner appointment with a friend.\u00a0 But I’m no slacker — I ran my heart out for those eight miles.<\/p>\n

My goal was to run a 1-mile warm up, then run two miles @ 9:10 pace (MRP for a 4-hour marathon, my BQ time), the next two miles @ 9:00, the next @ 8:50 and the final two @ 8:40.\u00a0 If I felt good I could run faster, but I wouldn’t allow myself to run slower.<\/p>\n

The first of the MRP miles was downhill, so I managed to run it in 8:42.\u00a0 The next one was at 8:49, followed by an 8:48.\u00a0 Fearing I wouldn’t be able to keep up that pace, I purposefully slowed for the 4th mile, running it in 8:57 (still faster than my goal).\u00a0 The next two miles were at 8:48 and 8:49 respectively, but by now I was beginning to tire and questioned my ability to run the final two MRP miles at 8:40.\u00a0 However, I must have channeled my inner Deena, as I managed to run them at 8:20 and 8:15.<\/p>\n

Final time: 1:09:27.<\/p>\n

Thank you Nancy for another fun race!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh that Nancy — she’s at it again, making us run.\u00a0 Inspired by her trip to China, she once again held a virtual 8 on the 8th race on — you guessed it — 8\/8\/08 to coincide with the opening of the Beijing Olympics. Originally scheduled to run nine miles with seven at marathon race […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}