{"id":16533,"date":"2017-02-19T22:13:50","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T04:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=16533"},"modified":"2017-02-19T22:13:50","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T04:13:50","slug":"stupid-cupid-2-mile-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=16533","title":{"rendered":"Stupid Cupid 2 Mile Run"},"content":{"rendered":"

My friend Andrea talked me into signing up for the Stupid Cupid 2 Mile Run<\/a> at Sedgwick County Park on February 11. I truly was perfectly satisfied running on the treadmill but Derek and Andrea had both been trying to talk me into signing up for a race. I’d been reluctant because I’m not really fond of running outside. Anyway, when Andrea told me about this one I figured what the heck. It’s only two miles. If I absolutely hate it, then it will be over soon enough. <\/p>\n

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Anyway, Andrea couldn’t take that Saturday off work so her husband Donavan ended up running in her place. Here’s a picture of the two of us together. <\/p>\n

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My coworker Joe who has recently started running signed up for the run as well. Above is a picture of him with me and Brian. Brian didn’t run but he was there for moral support and to cheer me on, of course. <\/p>\n

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Derek and his friend Vicky were also there. I think they signed up for the race months before I even heard about it. Above is a pre-race picture of the five of us. From left:<\/em> Joe, me, Donavan, Vicky, and Derek. <\/p>\n

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Derek is a running fanatic. He actually ran eight miles before the race because he’s training for a marathon and wanted to run fatigued. Even so, he still managed to finish first in his age group and fourth overall. <\/p>\n

Here are a few more photos of the race. See if you can spot some of us.<\/p>\n

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Here’s Derek and bowtie guy. They finished back to back.<\/p>\n

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Here’s Donavan as he approached the finish line. <\/p>\n

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Here are a couple of pictures of Vicky as she approached the finish line. <\/p>\n

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Here’s Joe approaching the finish line. <\/p>\n

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And here’s me.<\/p>\n

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I didn’t have any specific goals, with it being my first race and all. I was pretty slow, as you can see from my race results below. Joe and I are celebrating anyway because this was a first race for both of us and now we’re no longer race virgins. <\/p>\n

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Anyway, since I didn’t absolutely hate this experience, I figured that I would give running outside a try so I went on Joe’s 5 AM run the other day. I didn’t hate it either so I may run with him again this week. He’s on a Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday running schedule. It’s supposed to be rainy on Tuesday so we’ll see. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My friend Andrea talked me into signing up for the Stupid Cupid 2 Mile Run at Sedgwick County Park on February 11. I truly was perfectly satisfied running on the treadmill but Derek and Andrea had both been trying to talk me into signing up for a race. I’d been reluctant because I’m not really […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1340,403,262],"tags":[2863,2376,599],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16533"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16543,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16533\/revisions\/16543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}