{"id":725,"date":"2012-11-10T12:18:09","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T11:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tristanhoffmann.de\/blog\/?p=725"},"modified":"2013-12-19T14:11:02","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T13:11:02","slug":"santa-barbara-international-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tristanhoffmann.de\/?p=725","title":{"rendered":"Santa Barbara International Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the <a title=\"Endomondo Track\" href=\"http:\/\/www.endomondo.com\/workouts\/mFGsmduqm_A\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Barbara Marathon<\/a> was during our stay here we had to sign up and give it a try. Unfortunately that meant getting up at 5.30 a.m. to catch the shuttle bus to the start line leaving at UCSB. It was incredibly cold, but I arrived at the start unfrozen.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately at the start the sun started to rise. The start was pretty quick and I thought about which pacer to follow (each pacer had a finish time and guides others by running exactly the speed required to reach the finish line at the set time). I thought 3:45 might be a realistic time, but it just felt too slow, so I ended up sticking with the 3:25 pacer until about 25 kilometers. The route was pretty nice and there were a lot of people cheering, holding up signs or just watching. The sports enthusiasm over here is still unbeatable.<\/p>\n<p>When I felt my power fading I slowed down a bit, but soon felt myself being chased by the 3:30 group, so I joined them. Unfortunately at kilometer 32 my muscles had enough and turned into concrete. From that point on it was really painful, but somehow I still managed to arrive at <a title=\"Results\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geminitiming.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/sb_full_fl_121.htm\" target=\"_blank\">3:42:06 (<\/a>11.4 km\/h). The finish was decorated for Veteran\u2019s day \u2013 huge American flags for the last mile and veterans at the finish line.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily the supply of free food and drinks was really good. During the run I had kept looking for real food like bananas, so I was happy to get some at the finish line, finally.<\/p>\n<p>In the bus back to UCSB I met a just retired American from Fresno, who had already completed more than 100 marathons, at least one in each state of the U.S. with a record time of 2:47. Way to go <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-smiley\" alt=\":)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tristanhoffmann.de\/blog\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_smile.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the Santa Barbara Marathon was during our stay here we had to sign up and give it a try. Unfortunately that meant getting up at 5.30 a.m. to catch the shuttle bus to the start line leaving at UCSB. It was incredibly cold, but I arrived at the start unfrozen. Fortunately at the start &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.tristanhoffmann.de\/?p=725\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Santa Barbara International Marathon<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tristanhoffmann.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tristanhoffmann.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tristanhoffmann.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tristanhoffmann.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tristanhoffmann.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tristanhoffmann.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":726,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tristanhoffmann.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions\/726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tristanhoffmann.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tristanhoffmann.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tristanhoffmann.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}