{"id":4269,"date":"2022-04-20T08:42:19","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T07:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brjrunandtri.org\/wp\/?p=4269"},"modified":"2022-04-20T08:42:19","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T07:42:19","slug":"boston-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brjrunandtri.org\/wp\/?p=4269","title":{"rendered":"Boston Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Boston Marathon (USA)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4270\" src=\"https:\/\/brjrunandtri.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Boston-2022.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brjrunandtri.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Boston-2022.jpg 320w, https:\/\/brjrunandtri.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Boston-2022-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The 126th edition of America\u2019s oldest Marathon, included as part of the 24,819 successful finishers, 2 BRJ\u2019ers (Rob Farrant &amp; Marcela Gracova) that had met the strict entry qualifying times. The course is known for the tough Newton Hills section, which starts at Mile 16 &amp; concludes at the summit of the aptly named Heartbreak Hill at Mile 21. Thankfully the course slightly declines over the final 5 miles to the finish. The weather for the 2022 event was good for distance running, but with a slight headwind.<\/p>\n<p>Rob, the BRJ\u2019s 4th fastest Men\u2019s Marathoneer with a PB of 2:46:21 (London 2021) finished in a time of 3:04:00 in position 4,023. An Age Grading score of 73.92% counts towards the 2022 Senior Running Championships. Rob had suffered a number of injuries in the vital months preceding this event so did well to record such a good result at this notoriously tough course based on minimal training.<\/p>\n<p>Marcela, BRJ\u2019s 3rd fastest Woman over the Marathon distance at 3:18:16 (London 2021), finished in a time of 3:36:41 in position 12,199 with a 63.72% Age Grading. As a representative of Slovakia, Marcela was their 3rd Lady finisher<\/p>\n<p>Mike Gullis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Marathon (USA) The 126th edition of America\u2019s oldest Marathon, included as part of the 24,819 successful finishers, 2 BRJ\u2019ers (Rob Farrant &amp; Marcela Gracova) that had met the strict entry qualifying times. The course is known for the tough &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brjrunandtri.org\/wp\/?p=4269\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4270,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":0,"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-races","category-runs"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brjrunandtri.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Boston-2022.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brjrunandtri.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brjrunandtri.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brjrunandtri.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brjrunandtri.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brjrunandtri.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brjrunandtri.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4271,"href":"https:\/\/brjrunandtri.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4269\/revisions\/4271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brjrunandtri.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brjrunandtri.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brjrunandtri.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brjrunandtri.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}