{"id":520,"date":"2014-09-23T08:35:06","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T13:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skelmo.com\/?p=520"},"modified":"2014-09-23T08:35:34","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T13:35:34","slug":"here-comes-the-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/?p=520","title":{"rendered":"Here comes the Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This Saturday I will attempt the Mogollon Monster race again.\u00a0 The race is 106 miles with 23,000ft of climb.\u00a0 My goal this year is 32 hours (35.5 hours last) but I&#8217;ll be happy with just finishing.\u00a0\u00a0 I am flying to Phoenix on Wednesday and spending a night in Flagstaff to give my body a chance to acclimatize to the higher altitude.\u00a0 On Thursday, I may climb Mt Humphreys at a slow pace just to get more help with the altitude.\u00a0\u00a0 It all depends on the amount of work calls I have during the day.\u00a0 Friday is much of the same, but I&#8217;m moving closer to the start line by staying in Payson.<\/p>\n<p>Tracy won&#8217;t be there this year but I&#8217;ll have lots of support.\u00a0 Richard and Ryan are local Dell reps in Phoenix &#8211; they have agreed to pace me through 30 miles of the race.\u00a0 Also, my friend David who just moved to Phoenix will be driving up to cheer me on at the finish line.<\/p>\n<p>This year, I will be carrying the SPOT and pressing the button at all the aid stations.\u00a0 You can follow me here:<a title=\"http:\/\/share.findmespot.com\/shared\/faces\/viewspots.jsp?glId=00ib6q2j9kEfMaS4ItJptZR5OSRLX3Ea4\" href=\"http:\/\/share.findmespot.com\/shared\/faces\/viewspots.jsp?glId=00ib6q2j9kEfMaS4ItJptZR5OSRLX3Ea4\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/share.findmespot.com\/shared\/faces\/viewspots.jsp?glId=00ib6q2j9kEfMaS4ItJptZR5OSRLX3Ea4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The race starts at 6am (PST) on Saturday and I hope to finish by 2pm (PST) on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, I will carry a camera again so I can document the race.\u00a0 If you are interested, last years&#8217; video is below:<br \/>\n<iframe  id=\"_ytid_90363\"  width=\"625\" height=\"352\"  data-origwidth=\"625\" data-origheight=\"352\"  data-relstop=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uEscgS5XC6s?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=0&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This Saturday I will attempt the Mogollon Monster race again.\u00a0 The race is 106 miles with 23,000ft of climb.\u00a0 My goal this year is 32 hours (35.5 hours last) but I&#8217;ll be happy with just finishing.\u00a0\u00a0 I am flying to Phoenix on Wednesday and spending a night in Flagstaff to give my body a [&hellip;]<\/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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mogollon-monster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","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=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":525,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions\/525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}