{"id":98,"date":"2011-05-15T21:22:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T01:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kogblog.salticid.com\/?p=98"},"modified":"2017-05-27T18:26:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T22:26:00","slug":"binghamton-bridge-run-12-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/2011\/05\/binghamton-bridge-run-12-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Binghamton Bridge Run 1\/2 Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2:27:00! That fell into my &#8220;yay&#8221; category (I had predicted 2:30-2:45 as a satisfactory time). My one previous 1\/2, on the D&amp;H trail, was a very well-run race but not that much fun for me because it was so flat.<\/p>\n<p>#94 out of 117 in the 40-49 F category (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fasttrackcoaching.net\/timing\/Results\/2011-BINGHAMTON-BRIDGE-RUN-HALF-MARATHON-RESULTS.txt\">full results<\/a>), which puts me in the bottom 20%&#8211;when I typically think of myself as in the bottom 10%, so not as bad as I thought.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing so much of Binghamton was nostalgic. Since we&#8217;re planning on moving away, it felt like a farewell tour. NYSEG Stadium, which we saw built&#8211;I&#8217;ve seen 4 baseball games in my life, 2 at Yankee Stadium and 2 here. Clinton Street, which long ago held the Guinness World Record for the most bars in one mile, and later became the prime area for antiques in Binghamton; I bought a $2 formal gown there for the fanciest black-tie wedding we ever attended. The many places the food co-op lived. Many locations where I visited clients when I was a home health aide. The old taxi station, boarded up. The old library, where I first started reading seriously about librarianship (the Horn Book and the Trouble in River City books); the new library which we toured half a decade ago when planning our new building (plans which will have to be re-done when it&#8217;s finally at the point of being built). The Crowley dairy plant with its iconic chimney. The Park Diner where we met friends.<\/p>\n<p>Things I want to do before we leave: visit the Bundy Museum, River Books&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2:27:00! That fell into my &#8220;yay&#8221; category (I had predicted 2:30-2:45 as a satisfactory time). My one previous 1\/2, on the D&amp;H trail, was a very well-run race but not that much fun for me because it was so flat. #94 out of 117 in the 40-49 F category (full results), which puts me in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}