{"id":37,"date":"2006-03-17T00:21:31","date_gmt":"2006-03-17T07:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milestogo.azrunning.com\/mtgcontent\/wordpress\/?p=37"},"modified":"2006-05-22T22:08:36","modified_gmt":"2006-05-23T05:08:36","slug":"2006-valley-of-the-sun-half-marathon-relay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"2006 Valley of the Sun Half Marathon \/ Relay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I must admit to approaching this event with a bit of trepidation. After 143 days without rain, the Phoenix area was drenched by a chilly, day-long downpour the day before the  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.valleyofthesunmarathon.com\">Valley of the Sun Half Marathon<\/a>. Add to that the uncertainties of a new race route, the 6:15 AM starting time, and the overall logistical difficulty of coordinating a road relay. It had the potential to be a cold, wet, unpleasant morning.<\/p>\n<p>What a pleasant surprise it turned out to be. The rain moved out a few hours before race time. The air was clear and cool, with a light breeze. On the horizon, the Four Peaks wore a dramatic blanket of snow.<\/p>\n<p>Quest Club entered three relay teams. The Quest Gold team took first place in the co-ed division, and was the first team to finish overall, in 1:25:08. The Quest Blue team finished 3rd overall and was the first all-women&#8217;s team, in 1:33:11. The Quest Red team finished 5th overall, and was 3rd in the co-ed division, with a time of 1:42:02. Patty Beckman ran the full half marathon in 1:41:46, a nine minute PR!<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/milestogo.azrunning.com\/mtgcontent\/gallery\/2006_VOTS_Half_Marathon\">Images from the 2006 Valley of the Sun Half Marathon<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/milestogo.azrunning.com\/mtgcontent\/gallery\/albums\/2006_VOTS_Half_Marathon\/20060312_092943_JDD.jpg\" alt=\"Snow capped peaks in the distance\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must admit to approaching this event with a bit of trepidation. After 143 days without rain, the Phoenix area was drenched by a chilly, day-long downpour the day before the Valley of the Sun Half Marathon. Add to that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/?p=37\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quest-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}