{"id":1456,"date":"2010-03-02T07:51:27","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T15:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/?p=1456"},"modified":"2010-03-03T09:54:49","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T17:54:49","slug":"half-marathon-on-skis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/half-marathon-on-skis\/","title":{"rendered":"Half Marathon on skis!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was at Fossil Bluff the Rothera half marathon was going on with people running around the crushed rock runway for charity. I had promised to do it but because I was in the field I took some skis instead.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/runway-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"runway\" title=\"runway\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1459 colorbox-1456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/runway-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/runway.JPG 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nThe runway at Fossil Bluff is slightly uphill so it took some effort as the slight downhill was upwind so that didn&#8217;t give me any relief. At 1.45km it was many many times around. I ended up carrying some pebbles and leaving them at the end so that I knew how many times I had gone around!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/half-marathon-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"half marathon\" title=\"half marathon\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1457 colorbox-1456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/half-marathon-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/half-marathon.JPG 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The shadows got longer as I got to the end of the 21.9km half marathon on skis. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/end-half-marathon-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"end half marathon\" title=\"end half marathon\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1458 colorbox-1456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/end-half-marathon-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/end-half-marathon.JPG 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nTired at the end at 9pm at night after 4 1\/2 hours on the skis. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was at Fossil Bluff the Rothera half marathon was going on with people running around the crushed rock runway for charity. I had promised to do it but because I was in the field I took some skis instead. The runway at Fossil Bluff is slightly uphill so it took some effort as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antarctic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1456"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1478,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions\/1478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}