{"id":149,"date":"2008-05-27T15:29:30","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T20:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/2008\/mackinaw-bridge-5m-race\/"},"modified":"2022-05-08T18:29:52","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T23:29:52","slug":"mackinaw-bridge-5m-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/27\/mackinaw-bridge-5m-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Mackinaw Bridge 5 Mile Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday May 24th, at a bright and early 5 am was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/GSlideShows\/Mackinaw_Race_2008\/index.html\" title=\"Mackinaw Bridge Run Photo Album\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mackinaw bridge 5 mile race<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/GSlideshows\/Mackinaw_Race_2008\/MackinawBridgeBibx3.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\" title=\"Mackinaw Bridge 5 Mile Run - 2008\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/GSlideshows\/Mackinaw_Race_2008\/MackinawBridgeRun08.jpg\" alt=\"Mackinaw Bridge Run 2008\" width=\"287\" border=\"0\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bright and early and 38 degrees out made for a quick race &#8211; because I just wanted to get back into a warm bed<br \/>\nand sleep! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/GSlideShows\/Mackinaw_Race_2008\/index.html\" title=\"Mackinaw Bridge Run Photo Album\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See some photos of me trying to get to the end and back to bed!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some stats for the race:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a) Start time: 5:38 am<\/li>\n<li>b) Start temperature 38 degrees Farenheit<\/li>\n<li>c) a 5 mile run<\/li>\n<li>d) finished 248 out of 345 male entrants (72% finished ahead of me)<\/li>\n<li>e) finished 31 out of 40 in my age group (77.5% finished ahead of me)<\/li>\n<li>f) finished 370 out of 611 total finishers. (finished in the top 60% overall)<\/li>\n<li>g) had a 9:38 pace (48:12 total time)<\/li>\n<li>h) had a great time, and chalked up another new PR for a 5 mile! Hey, five races, five new personal records, what&#8217;s so hard about this? <a href='https:\/\/naa-world.araby-dev.com\/abrsujq3\/'>?????? ??????<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some general observations. Based on the numbers above you can tell this is a<br \/>\ncommunity of older people&#8230; and apparently fairly fit. The participation in the<br \/>\nolder age groups is very high compared to Ann Arbor races. Realizing I am<br \/>\ncertainly not the faster runner, I still fared much worse, especially in my age<br \/>\ngroup, than in prior races! With almost 78% of the men in my division finishing<br \/>\nahead of me, this may be the lowest finishing place yet! Compare this to the overall<br \/>\nfinish where I finished in the top 60% and you can see the difference.<\/p>\n<p>The race was fun, a great workout for the legs and lungs! That long grade to<br \/>\nthe crest really made the thighs work.<\/p>\n<p>This was followed by three days of sight seeing in the area where we had a<br \/>\ngreat time.<\/p>\n<p>Note that within hours of finishing this 5 mile race we were on Mackinaw<br \/>\nIsland where we rented bikes and rode around the island, and into the interior<br \/>\nto see some others sites, such as Sugar Loaf <del>mountain<\/del> <del>hill<\/del> rock pile, we did not get to see on the carriage ride. So we<br \/>\nfigured we rode at least 14 miles, then we also walked for hours around town, up to and through fort, and to various ice cream shops, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Now into &#8220;training&#8221; for the second part of the &#8220;Serious Series&#8221; 10K (6.2 mile)<br \/>\ntrail run June 14th.!<\/p>\n<p>Until the Mackinaw Bridge comes falling down,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 5th Annual Mackinaw Bridge 5 Mile race. May 24th, 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,43],"tags":[50,202,44,52,204],"series":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness","category-running","tag-5m","tag-fitness","tag-kasdorf","tag-road-race","tag-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}