{"id":2427,"date":"2014-06-01T22:47:37","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T13:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2014-06-01\/2427"},"modified":"2014-06-02T12:54:18","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T03:54:18","slug":"my-brother-just-finished-a-51-mile-ultramarathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2014-06-01\/2427","title":{"rendered":"My Brother Just Finished a 55-mile UltraMarathon!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<p>Having just posted about a\n<a href='\/blog\/2014-06-01\/2426'>tiny baby hike to the top of an anthill in Kyoto<\/a> that <span class='nobr'>I feel<\/span> good about having been able to do, <span class='nobr'>I'm put to<\/span> shame by my next-older brother <a href='https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mfriedl'>Mike,<\/a> who moments ago finished the <a href='http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Comrades_Marathon'>Comrades Ultra-Marathon<\/a>\nin South Africa. <span class='nobr'>A normal<\/span> Marathon is 26.22 miles, but this one is 55.5 miles (89.28 km). He finished <span class='nobr'>in 9h 37m 26s,<\/span>\nthe 3,198th finisher out of 18,000 runners.<\/p>\n\n<p>That leaves a pace of 10m 24s per mile.... every mile... more than 55 times in <span class='nobr'>a row.<\/span> <span class='nobr'>On a good<\/span> day <span class='nobr'>I might<\/span> be able to do one mile (2%).<\/p>\n\n<p>Congrats Mike. What an accomplishment!<\/p>\n\n<p><b>Update:<\/b> Mike's written up an interesting report on the exeprience <a href='http:\/\/www.chickeeandmike.com\/2014\/06\/random-thoughts-comrades-edition.html'>on his blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having just posted about a tiny baby hike to the top of an anthill in Kyoto that I feel good about having been able to do, I'm put to shame by my next-older brother Mike, who moments ago finished the Comrades Ultra-Marathon in South Africa. A normal Marathon is 26.22 miles, but this one is 55.5 miles (89.28 km). He finished in 9h 37m 26s, the 3,198th finisher out of 18,000 runners.<\/p> <p>That leaves a pace of 10m 24s per mile.... every mile... more than 55 times in a row. On a good day I might be able to do [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}