{"id":262,"date":"2009-08-15T12:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-15T12:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/?p=262"},"modified":"2009-08-15T12:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-15T12:02:00","slug":"frank-duffy-10-miler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/?p=262","title":{"rendered":"Frank Duffy 10 miler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_PKFbaGGAAic\/SmSDCpFQ5KI\/AAAAAAAAAwM\/zngQV-Vh6Xs\/s1600-h\/10mile_logo.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 192px; CURSOR: hand\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360553537888642210\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_PKFbaGGAAic\/SmSDCpFQ5KI\/AAAAAAAAAwM\/zngQV-Vh6Xs\/s400\/10mile_logo.gif\" \/><\/a>This is the annual 10 miler that forms part of the Dublin City Marathon series (5, 10 and 13.1 milers). I wasn&#8217;t really sure if I was ready for this race having, yet again, failed to train during the week and on the day I arrived a tad late but one of the benefits or riding a motorcycle is that you can park fairly close to the start line.<\/p>\n<p>As I parked the bike I heard the starting gun go off and the race was really on to get across the start line before they dismantle it. I had to get my riding gear off, store it in the panniers and get my running gear on. I had to run along the starting corridor and pin my number to my shirt at the same time; I&#8217;m not know for multitasking but the mixture of sharps pins and running resulted in several minor pricks that I could have done without&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Out of breath and already feeling tired I think I was last to cross the start line. I had set my trusty Garmin virtual partner to run the race in 1.32 which, if I kept up, would give me a new PB for a 10 miler. I struggled through the first 2 miles, passing a lot of walkers, joggers and eventually the slower runners. Once I caught up with the runners I started to feel better, must be a pack thing.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the race was tough and I pushed hard to keep up the pace. But it paid off and I crossed the line in 1:32:58, a new PB!! According to fetcheveryone.com my marathon prediction based on that run is 4.17 but it&#8217;s hard to predict what will happen after the half marathon stage, especially after 20 miles.<\/p>\n<p>Gael Force 6 is next on the list!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the annual 10 miler that forms part of the Dublin City Marathon series (5, 10 and 13.1 milers). I wasn&#8217;t really sure if I was ready for this race having, yet again, failed to train during the week and on the day I arrived a tad late but one of the benefits or [&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-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","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=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}