{"id":12714,"date":"2010-12-14T10:38:15","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T14:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=12714"},"modified":"2010-12-14T10:38:15","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T14:38:15","slug":"running-reflections-did-not-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2010\/12\/running-reflections-did-not-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Running Reflections: Did Not Start"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>As runners, we’ve all heard tales and talks of those that Did Not Finish (DNF) a race.\u00a0 Perhaps we’ve even experienced such a situation ourselves.<\/p>\n

But what about those that Did Not Start (DNS) a race?<\/p>\n

Have you ever bailed out on a race for any reason?<\/p>\n

My answer is yes I have.\u00a0 I have bailed on two races and they were both for the same reason, rain.\u00a0 There are two things I hate running in the most:<\/p>\n

1. Rain<\/p>\n

2. Wind<\/p>\n

I can handle and will attempt pretty much everything else.\u00a0 Either of those things, regardless of the temperature, I detest and try not to run in them if I can help it.<\/p>\n

The two races that I DNS, were both this year, a spring and a winter race.\u00a0 Small distances, one was a 5K and the other a four miler.\u00a0 Both times it was raining really hard and both times I said, “Screw this, I’m going back to bed.”<\/p>\n

I really don’t like having to bail.\u00a0 I spent money on the race and that is money that doesn’t get refunded at all.\u00a0 Nope.\u00a0 Once you paid, the race organization isn’t looking to give it back to you.<\/p>\n

I have shirts from both of these races and I wear them.\u00a0 Yes, with a little guilt considering I didn’t even run those events, but heck I did pay for them after all.<\/p>\n

Racing isn’t a cheap hobby.\u00a0 Most times I’ll nut up and run the race despite the weather conditions.\u00a0 However there are times when running in less than ideal weather really isn’t worth it. It is a total judgment call.\u00a0 Some folks will go out no matter what and some won’t.<\/p>\n

Many have bailed on a race because of injury.\u00a0 Some because of hangovers.\u00a0 Whatever the reason, I think most of us have a DNS in our history.<\/p>\n

How about you? Have you bailed on a race before and what was the reason?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As runners, we’ve all heard tales and talks of those that Did Not Finish (DNF) a race.\u00a0 Perhaps we’ve even experienced such a situation ourselves. But what about those that Did Not Start (DNS) a race? Have you ever bailed out on a race for any reason? My answer is yes I have.\u00a0 I have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[58,52],"tags":[53],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-3j4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}