{"id":203,"date":"2010-09-20T12:19:16","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T02:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gpdawson.com\/blog\/?p=203"},"modified":"2010-09-20T15:25:13","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T05:25:13","slug":"sydney-bridge-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gpdawson.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/20\/sydney-bridge-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Bridge Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the day of the Sydney Marathon there are actually four different runs going on &#8211; the full marathon, a half-marathon, a 9km bridge run and a 4km fun run. I guess it&#8217;s just as well to take advantage of all the road closures to have as many events as possible at once! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I chose the 9km bridge run, along with about 16,000 others &#8211; across the harbour bridge and then through various parts of the city, ending up at the Opera House.\u00a0It&#8217;s a fantastic way of seeing the city in a new light. It&#8217;s almost as if the city was being re-possessed by the people who live in it, rather than cars, trucks and buses that normally pound the streets without respite.<\/p>\n<p>My run went surprisingly well. It was a fairly flat course, in fact ending at a slightly lower altitude than it started at, and I managed to maintain a nicely consistent pace the whole way. The result was my fastest paced run of this distance since I was in my twenties, I believe!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gpdawson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/BridgeRunResults2010.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-204\" title=\"BridgeRunResults2010\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gpdawson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/BridgeRunResults2010.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"656\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gpdawson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/BridgeRunResults2010.png 656w, https:\/\/www.gpdawson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/BridgeRunResults2010-300x96.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Here is a <a href=\"http:\/\/runkeeper.com\/user\/gpdawson\/activity\/16709544\">map of the course<\/a> from the RunKeeper iPhone app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the day of the Sydney Marathon there are actually four different runs going on &#8211; the full marathon, a half-marathon, a 9km bridge run and a 4km fun run. I guess it&#8217;s just as well to take advantage of all the road closures to have as many events as possible at once! \ud83d\ude42 I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running","tag-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpdawson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpdawson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpdawson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpdawson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpdawson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpdawson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpdawson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpdawson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpdawson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpdawson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}