{"id":156,"date":"2008-10-12T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-12T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/?p=156"},"modified":"2008-10-12T17:22:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-12T17:22:00","slug":"half-that-will-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/?p=156","title":{"rendered":"Half that will do&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The plan said 12 miles on Sunday, this was supposed to be my last long run before the Marathon but it proved to be a little too far for these two tired legs.<\/p>\n<p>After procrastinating for the entire morning and most of the afternoon I finally got my act together and got out. I got as far as the driveway&#8230; my French car let me down again! I have a theory about foreign automotive engineering: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If they make great wine or bland beer chances are they make rubbish cars.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;or&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>If they make awful wine or fantastic beer chances are they make really good cars.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Let&#8217;s explore that: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Look at the Germans: dreadful wine, so bad that Panzer&#8217;s used it as antifreeze, and some of the best tasting beers in the world but they make the great cars.<\/li>\n<li>What about the French? Fantastic wine, beers that look and taste like coloured water but what of their cars? They look the part but under the bonnet it&#8217;s a miracle that anything works&#8230; frequently it doesn&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<li>Italians? Great wine and their beer may actually be beer but only in the broadest sense of the word. As for their cars? Fiat, need I say more?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After 1\/2 an hour under the bonnet wishing for a miracle I finally got the car to start and I was off! The <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">Curragh<\/span> was soggy to say the least but I was glad to be out. I ran the first 5 minutes far too quickly, you see I passed a gorgeous woman in the car park as I was running out and had to pick up the pace! Why? I don&#8217;t know, but to my horror there was another equally gorgeous woman jogging towards me so I had to keep the speed up. After a couple of minutes I was well out of sight, out of breath and about to slow to my usual pace when, to yet more horror, in the distance I could see another jogger. I couldn&#8217;t make out if it was a man or a woman so I had to keep this ridiculous pace up. It turned out to be a fat bloke with a beard which really upset me, all that effort wasted.<\/p>\n<p>I carried on at a more reasonable pace. By mile 5 I was getting really tired and struggle to get to mile 6. At that stage I knew I wasn&#8217;t going to get 12 miles in. I pushed it to 6.73 miles and I was done! It took me 1:10 to run the distance, that&#8217;s an average pace of 10:22. My maximum pace was 6:00, far too fast!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a link to my route and stats: <a href=\"http:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/activity\/1079520\">http:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/activity\/1079520<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The plan said 12 miles on Sunday, this was supposed to be my last long run before the Marathon but it proved to be a little too far for these two tired legs. After procrastinating for the entire morning and most of the afternoon I finally got my act together and got out. I got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}