{"id":27,"date":"2009-01-13T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fitness-toolkit.com\/?p=33"},"modified":"2009-01-13T08:00:13","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T12:00:13","slug":"my-first-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"My first marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After much anticipation, I finally completed my first marathon!\u00a0 It was the <a title=\"Disney Marathon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.disneyworldmarathon.com\" target=\"_blank\">Walt Disney World Marathon<\/a>.\u00a0 This very cool course takes runners and walkers through all four Disney World theme parks.\u00a0 First Epcot, then the Magic Kingdom, the Animal Kingdom, Disney&#8217;s Hollywood Studios, and finally back through Epcot for the finish.\u00a0 My finish time:\u00a0 6 hours 45 minutes.\u00a0 I had hoped to do much better, but at mile 9, my ankle was hurting, so I decided to walk some.\u00a0 It didn&#8217;t take me long to realize that I wasn&#8217;t going to run on it any more.\u00a0 So, for 17.2 miles, I walked.\u00a0 Fast at first, then really really slowly.\u00a0 My ankle is basically sprained now and I am hobbling around.<\/p>\n<p>There are always a few funny stories from any event I have done.\u00a0 This was no exception.\u00a0 At mile two, I was passed by a guy on crutches.\u00a0 I knew I was in trouble then.\u00a0 When we entered the Animal Kingdom, they had some small animals there to greet us, including a tortise.\u00a0 It was then that the guy next to me said, &#8220;That turtle is mocking me.&#8221;\u00a0 I burst out laughing for the first and last time during that race.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, I got a really cool Mickey Mouse medal, a sprained ankle, and thanks to my friends Chuck and Judy, a Wendy&#8217;s Hot and Juicy double cheeseburger with large fries.\u00a0 Mmm!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After much anticipation, I finally completed my first marathon!\u00a0 It was the Walt Disney World Marathon.\u00a0 This very cool course takes runners and walkers through all four Disney World theme parks.\u00a0 First Epcot, then the Magic Kingdom, the Animal Kingdom,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/?p=27\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[9,15,31,32,36,311,80],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}