{"id":233,"date":"2013-09-23T23:07:06","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T04:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skelmo.com\/?p=233"},"modified":"2013-09-28T17:25:08","modified_gmt":"2013-09-28T22:25:08","slug":"less-than-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/?p=233","title":{"rendered":"Less than a week"},"content":{"rendered":"

The week has finally arrived.\u00a0 On Saturday at 6am Arizona time, I will embark on a 106 mile race.\u00a0 Race is not the right word since my only goal is to finish under the 36 hour cutoff.\u00a0\u00a0 I landed in Phoenix yesterday and drove to Payson, which is the only major \u201ccity\u201d near the start line.\u00a0 It\u2019s about 15 minutes south of the trailhead.\u00a0 The plan is for me to wonder the trails for the next couple days to make sure I get a feel for the pace and places I may need drop items.\u00a0 (Course map: mogollon_monster<\/a>) Tracy flies in on Thursday and will pace me several times during the race.\u00a0 It will be so nice to have her with me this time.<\/p>\n

Today I arrived at the starting trailhead around 8am and did a 20 mile loop (just walking) that traced the first 13 miles of the race and the last 5.\u00a0 The extra 2 are not on the course, but offered a convenient shortcut.\u00a0 I included a few pictures and the summary of the hike.\u00a0 Only about 1\/3 of the first 8 miles is runnable.\u00a0 I\u2019ll need to take it easy until I get up on the rim where the course follows a forest service road.\u00a0 I should be able to move along at a good clip.\u00a0 I\u2019m a bit worried about my back.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been having issues with the left side, but a week ago Sunday my right side started hurting when I was running flats or downhill.\u00a0 It cramps up anytime I stop moving.\u00a0 It behaved OK today which is encouraging, but I\u2019m doing a lot of yoga, stretching, and rolling on the ball to keep the pain away.<\/p>\n

The plan tomorrow is to drive to Flagstaff and after breakfast at Macy\u2019s Caf\u00e9, I\u2019m going to summit Humphrey\u2019s Peak.<\/p>\n

\"summ_mm_start\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"map_mm_start\"<\/a>\u00a0 \"IMG_0718\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"IMG_0719\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"IMG_0724\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The week has finally arrived.\u00a0 On Saturday at 6am Arizona time, I will embark on a 106 mile race.\u00a0 Race is not the right word since my only goal is to finish under the 36 hour cutoff.\u00a0\u00a0 I landed in Phoenix yesterday and drove to Payson, which is the only major \u201ccity\u201d near the start […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hikes","category-mogollon-monster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}