{"id":111,"date":"2006-09-23T22:05:31","date_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/blog\/?p=111"},"modified":"2018-12-28T17:02:59","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T00:02:59","slug":"25k-and-i-was-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/?p=111","title":{"rendered":"25K and I was done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now I&#8217;ve tried marathon once. I&#8217;ve yet to complete one, though.<\/p>\n<p>It all started out fine and I found myself running in a group of 6-8 runners, everyone aiming at 2.40. Unfortunately, the speed was a bit too fast (for everyone). In 5-K splits it went 18.42, 18.21, 18.27, 18.39 (half 1.18.16), 18.59 and that was it. The immediate reason to stop was a surprise stab in my upper stomach\/lungs, perhaps because of problems with fuilds. At that point it was in any case clear that my legs were not going to absorb continuos hitting on asphalt for the whole distance. &#8211; I have trained almost exclusively on trails.<\/p>\n<p>Quick analysis. I was right in that marathon is just another race. However, it is a bit different race and requires special training. If I want to complete a marathon in the future I need to start training on the road and add a few 30K sessions in my shcedule. Also, I need to start the race much more slowly. Today, a 20-minute first 5K would perhaps been the right way to play it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now I&#8217;ve tried marathon once. I&#8217;ve yet to complete one, though. It all started out fine and I found myself running in a group of 6-8 runners, everyone aiming at 2.40. Unfortunately, the speed was a bit too fast (for everyone). In 5-K splits it went 18.42, 18.21, 18.27, 18.39 (half 1.18.16), 18.59 and that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/?p=111\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;25K and I was done&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1903,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/1903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}