{"id":1642,"date":"2010-10-02T18:10:19","date_gmt":"2010-10-02T17:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/?p=1642"},"modified":"2010-10-15T23:50:29","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T22:50:29","slug":"black-mountains-%e2%80%94-how-the-other-half-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/black-mountains-%e2%80%94-how-the-other-half-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Mountains \u2014 how the other half run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A slightly cautious week in view of the unknown experience to come, that of the Black Mountains Fell Race.<br \/>\nThis soft, southern, road-runner was feeling quite anxious about this one.<br \/>\nThe event was recommended to me by a friend of mine. He&#8217;s into Alpine marathons and more these days, but has plenty of experience on the fells and mountains of these islands. He&#8217;s also recently completed his final Munro (mountains in Scotland over 3000ft high); given there are 283 of them, that&#8217;s quite an achievement.<br \/>\nAnyway, when he says do the Black Mountains, we know he speaks sense.<\/p>\n<p>After about 12 miles I was on my knees. You know when the TV camera zooms in on one of those poor, depleted marathon runners who cannot run in straight line any more? I felt like I was going that way \u2014 after just 12 miles! So, I ate and drank everything I was carrying and just about got it together to complete the 17 miles. Seventeen mile? Was that all?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been running races for nearly 20 years, none have wiped me out so quickly and ruthlessly as this one.<br \/>\nIf you get the chance, try it, it is a fantastic event, thanks Cedric!<\/p>\n<p>If this sort of race interests you than find out more by reading the excellent book <a title=\"Feet in the clouds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.runningtrainingplan.com\/booklist.php\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Feet in the Clouds&#8217;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The following week was pretty much recovery mode for me, although the thought of an off-road marathon in one month kept me from having too much rest.<\/p>\n<p>Total miles for 2 weeks: 61<br \/>\nBarefoot miles: 0.5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A slightly cautious week in view of the unknown experience to come, that of the Black Mountains Fell Race. This soft, southern, road-runner was feeling quite anxious about this one. The event was recommended to me by a friend of mine. He&#8217;s into Alpine marathons and more these days, but has plenty of experience on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[308,307],"class_list":["post-1642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-barefoot-running-diaries","tag-black-mountains","tag-fell-racing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1642"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1644,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions\/1644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}