{"id":1163,"date":"2021-10-06T23:25:02","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T23:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/untamedrunner.com\/?p=1163"},"modified":"2021-10-06T23:25:02","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T23:25:02","slug":"london-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/untamedrunner.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/06\/london-wrap-up\/","title":{"rendered":"London wrap-up&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>26.2 miles of virtual London came and went and I finished in 3:28, a bit shy of 3:10, though I did manage to keep my pace under 8:00\/mile at 7:58. A couple of friends ran part of the course and worked to help nudge me towards a faster time (for which I was grateful) and the Gatorade hand-offs from them and my family went smoothly (for which I was also grateful) but it was a day where things didn\u2019t align quite the way I\u2019d hoped. Racing is a finicky beast. Some days you hit your pace, some days you exceed it, and some days you do neither.<br><br>On an amusing note, I have four different finishing times from Sunday ranging from 3:27 to 3:32 based on which watch or app number you look at. (London supplied \u00a0a GPS app on my phone to \u201cofficially\u201d track my distance and time.) Once I enabled the London App, it took me about a minute to get my phone into its pouch and then begin the run. 3:28 is what I was shown when the London App, with fanfare and cheering, announced that I was done. 3:29 was what it said when the app actually got to 26.2 miles. My GPS watch was measuring distance shorter than the app so according to it, I had a 3:32 when I finished. Factoring in the one minute of phone-to-pouch time and applying it against the 3:29 to get 3:28 seems like the most accurate version. Also, that\u2019s what they gave me when they essentially said \u201cYou\u2019re done\u201d so I\u2019m going with that one.<br><br>My last marathon was sixteen years ago and I wondered how things would look with that many more years and miles on the legs. Will I do another one? Maybe, but it\u2019s unwise to make that kind of decision right after an event. For now, I\u2019m happy I did it, I echo being glad that I at least kept it under 8:00\/mile, and there\u2019s a 10K in late November that sounds interesting\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>26.2 miles of virtual London came and went and I finished in 3:28, a bit shy of 3:10, though I did manage to keep my pace under 8:00\/mile at 7:58. A couple of friends ran part of the course and worked to help nudge me towards a faster time (for which I was grateful) and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/untamedrunner.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/06\/london-wrap-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;London wrap-up&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9W0ku-iL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1733,"url":"https:\/\/untamedrunner.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/29\/london-satellites\/","url_meta":{"origin":1163,"position":0},"title":"London satellites&#8230;","author":"36jonraessler50","date":"January 29, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"An additional item about running in London that intrigues me is the distance measurements and times.When I travel within the U.S. and go to sea level, the difference is noticeable and I feel better and run faster. 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