{"id":6930,"date":"2017-02-12T21:03:46","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T13:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonylaw.com\/wwwroot\/wp\/?p=6930"},"modified":"2017-02-12T21:03:46","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T13:03:46","slug":"2nd-half-marathon-completed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tonylaw.com\/wwwroot\/wp\/2017\/02\/12\/2nd-half-marathon-completed\/","title":{"rendered":"2nd Half-Marathon Completed!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonylaw.com\/wwwroot\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_4202.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"tl-photo alignright wp-image-6931 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tonylaw.com\/wwwroot\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_4202-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4202\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Completed my 2nd half-marathon with an improvement of ~15 mins (unofficially) compared to last year! \u00a0Thankful. \u00a0Building upon experience from last year, this year&#8217;s run seemed more pleasurable and less exhaustive, it felt like I can run an extra\u00a01 or 2k after passing the finish line! \u00a0Perhaps I can attempt to run a full marathon next year? \u00a0Will see.<\/p>\n<p>And I seemed to like the social aspect of the run a little more this year. \u00a0Although you may run a little slower due to too many runners passing narrow ways at times, there&#8217;s magic to be around thousands of people from all walks of life trying the achieve the same goal.\u00a0&#8220;Together, we run further!&#8221;, that&#8217;s the slogan for this year&#8217;s marathon.<\/p>\n<p>A side effect from\u00a0the half-marathon preparation\u00a0is that I&#8217;ve got into the habit and waking up\u00a0early in the morning to do practice runs, that seemed to make me a more positive and productive person. \u00a0Let&#8217;s hope\u00a0I can keep up with this good habit after the run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Completed my 2nd half-marathon with an improvement of ~15 mins (unofficially) compared to last year! \u00a0Thankful. \u00a0Building upon experience from last year, this year&#8217;s run seemed more pleasurable and less exhaustive, it felt like I can run an extra\u00a01 or 2k after passing the finish line! \u00a0Perhaps I can attempt to run a full marathon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[75,120,141,144,21,79,142,90,115,112,143,122,43,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonylaw.com\/wwwroot\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6930"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonylaw.com\/wwwroot\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonylaw.com\/wwwroot\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonylaw.com\/wwwroot\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonylaw.com\/wwwroot\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonylaw.com\/wwwroot\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonylaw.com\/wwwroot\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonylaw.com\/wwwroot\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonylaw.com\/wwwroot\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}