{"id":6328,"date":"2013-07-30T08:33:39","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T15:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=6328"},"modified":"2013-07-30T11:31:26","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T18:31:26","slug":"2013-btn-big10k-5k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=6328","title":{"rendered":"2013: BTN BIG10K (5k)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Untitled by nikbronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/9399276633\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Untitled\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5506\/9399276633_4c0d7b330e_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis past Saturday I ran the 5k portion of the <a title=\"BTN Big 10K\" href=\"http:\/\/www.btnbig10k.com\">BTN Big 10K<\/a> once again. The size of the race more than doubled since last year making it more of a challenge to get a beer after the event. I felt pretty good until about the last mile and then I pretty much fell off a cliff. I did manage to pick it up during the final stretch and probably passed 14 people including two Michigan State guys dressed in full-on Spartan regalia. Considering the strong finish, and the data my app was spitting out, I was pretty convinced that I had vastly improved my time. Later that evening I checked and my <a title=\"Results \" href=\"http:\/\/results.active.com\/events\/btn-big-10k\/participants?&amp;search=11345\">official time<\/a>\u00a0was 33:50. I felt pretty good about it until I compared it to my time <a title=\"BTN BIG10K (5k)\" href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=5999\">last year<\/a> which was 34:02. Which basically means if I didn&#8217;t haul ass for the last 50 yards I would have surely finished worse than last year.<\/p>\n<p>Rather depressing but at least I <a title=\"BTN Big 10K: Delany\" href=\"http:\/\/results.active.com\/events\/btn-big-10k\/participants?&amp;search=14916\">beat<\/a> Jim Delany by nearly 6 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Side Notes:<br \/>\n<a title=\"Untitled by nikbronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/9399278803\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Untitled\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3711\/9399278803_99cd14bb31_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n* Oddly enough the Rutgers mascot, The Scarlet Knight made an early appearance.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Untitled by nikbronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/9402052972\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Untitled\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2871\/9402052972_5eda337761_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"481\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n** Also, <a title=\"chicagometsfan.com\" href=\"http:\/\/chicagometsfan.com\">Julie<\/a> continues her <a title=\"BTN BIG10K (5k)\" href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=5999\">tradition<\/a> of tracking down the lone Heisman Trophy winner at the post race party, this time 2001 winner <a title=\"Wikipedia: Eric Crouch\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eric_Crouch\">Eric Crouch<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past Saturday I ran the 5k portion of the BTN Big 10K once again. The size of the race more than doubled since last year making it more of a challenge to get a beer after the event. I felt pretty good until about the last mile and then I pretty much fell off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pazIS5-1E4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6328"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6337,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6328\/revisions\/6337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}