{"id":596,"date":"2009-04-05T17:13:05","date_gmt":"2009-04-05T22:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/?p=596"},"modified":"2022-05-03T20:01:24","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T01:01:24","slug":"martian-half-marathon-april-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/05\/martian-half-marathon-april-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Martian Half Marathon April 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My first half marathon is now history and in the books.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Race Advertisement!\" rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/Running\/Martian2009\/Martian Marathon 2009 01 x8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/Running\/Martian2009\/Martian Marathon 2009 01 x3.jpg\" alt=\"The race flyer from Running Fit.\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The weather was great for a race, cool enough to be comfortable (34), but not so cool as to be frosty either. They said it was a slightly revised course this year, but since I had never run the half before (did the 10K in 2008) it was all new to me except a few parts both races share.<\/p>\n<p>They always play up the Martian UFO angle putting out a lot of advertising like this full size poster.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Martian Marathon Poster suitable for framing!\" rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/Running\/Martian2009\/Martian Marathon 2009 011 x8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/Running\/Martian2009\/Martian Marathon 2009 011 x3.jpg\" alt=\"The Martian Marathon Poster - Suitable for framing.\" width=\"292\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The shirt is always unique and has won awards for design of running shirts.<\/p>\n<p>The front side shows the hairy alien inside.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Martian Marathon Technical Tee - Front\" rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/Running\/Martian2009\/Martian Marathon 2009 017 x8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/Running\/Martian2009\/Martian Marathon 2009 017 x3.jpg\" alt=\"The Martian Marathon Technical Tee - Front.\" width=\"300\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While the back has the &#8220;friendly&#8221; alien coming out.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Martian Marathon Technical Tee - Rear\" rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/Running\/Martian2009\/Martian Marathon 2009 020 x8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/Running\/Martian2009\/Martian Marathon 2009 020 x3.jpg\" alt=\"The Martian Marathon Technical Tee - Rear.\" width=\"300\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The finishers get a medal, along with the free sore legs, for their effort.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Martian Marathon Finishers Medal\" rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/Running\/Martian2009\/Martian Marathon 2009 030 x8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/Running\/Martian2009\/Martian Marathon 2009 030 x3.jpg\" alt=\"The Martian Marathon Finishers Medal.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The official Team ToeJammer Bib.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Martian Marathon Toe Jammers Bibl\" rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/Running\/Martian2009\/Martian Marathon 2009 Bib x8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/Running\/Martian2009\/Martian Marathon 2009 Bib x3.jpg\" alt=\"The Martian Marathon ToeJammers Bib.\" width=\"300\" height=\"292\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the stats associated with the run.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Martian Marathon Final Results\" rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/Running\/Martian2009\/Martian Results Overall 03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/Running\/Martian2009\/Martian Results Overall 03 x3.jpg\" alt=\"The Martian Marathon Final Results.\" width=\"300\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>Some stats for the race:<br \/>\na) 13.1 Miles (Half Marathon)<br \/>\nb) Finished 1053 out of 1762 overall<br \/>\nc) Finished 31 out of 58 in my age group.<br \/>\nd) Had a 9:35 pace (2:05:26.2 total time)<br \/>\ne) Had a great time, even got a new 13.1 M PR (Ok, it had to be a PR!)<\/ul>\n<p>Until the final UFO is sighted,<br \/>\nGeorge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Running Fit does the annual Martian Marathon in Dearborn Michigan. I ran the 13.1 mile Half Marathon April 2009.<\/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":[183,128,127,44,42,203],"series":[],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness","category-running","tag-13-1m","tag-dearborn","tag-half-marathon","tag-kasdorf","tag-martian-marathon","tag-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","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=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}