{"id":433,"date":"2012-03-27T23:23:25","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T22:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/?p=433"},"modified":"2012-06-30T12:11:33","modified_gmt":"2012-06-30T11:11:33","slug":"the-mighty-deerstalker-5k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/?p=433","title":{"rendered":"The Mighty Deerstalker 5K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>5K me arse!!! Kerry and Paul have been doing this race for years and I had the pleasure of joining them this year. The race is deep in the Scottish countryside, not entirely sure if it&#8217;s the highlands or lowlands but definitely bloody cold and wet lands&#8230; and the distance is more like 10k&#8230; and then it&#8217;s up near-vertical bog and tracks, across hill tops, down through dense forests (and a mid-forest disco), through waist-high freezing river (won&#8217;t be seeing them for a while I said to spectator as I emerged from the water), under a tunnel filled with that same freezing water, through a swamp, literally into a cargo net from a serious height, under even more cargo nets, over 8 foot high walls and finally crossing the finish line&#8230; Then having to camp in the freezing Scottish night in my clothes, without showers and having to walk through a maze of tents in the pitch dark to have a piss and then having to scrape ice off my tent in the morning&#8230; On the up side it was the most exciting and exhilarating adventure race I have ever done, I had really the best time!! Speaking of times&#8230; I ran as fast as I could and covered 10k in\u00c2\u00a01.27.35, that&#8217;s how tough it was! Everyone should do this race!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5K me arse!!! Kerry and Paul have been doing this race for years and I had the pleasure of joining them this year. The race is deep in the Scottish countryside, not entirely sure if it&#8217;s the highlands or lowlands but definitely bloody cold and wet lands&#8230; and the distance is more like 10k&#8230; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","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=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}