{"id":252,"date":"2008-05-03T05:34:31","date_gmt":"2008-05-03T13:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/?p=252"},"modified":"2008-05-02T05:34:56","modified_gmt":"2008-05-02T13:34:56","slug":"april-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2008\/april-highlights\/","title":{"rendered":"April Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can’t believe it is May already. 5 months in the Twin Cities and we are enjoying it all (except for the endless bouts of snow!)<\/p>\n

April was a busy month with two races, the Earth Day Half-Marathon<\/a> and the Get in Gear 10K<\/a>. I also decided to step up and register for a marathon – Medtronic’s Twin Cities Marathon<\/a> in October.<\/p>\n

I started a new feature<\/a> highlighting all the different style race numbers that we get.<\/p>\n

Some random running news included a marathoner who captured a thief<\/a>, a study about detraining<\/a>, another study about running preventing dementia<\/a>, the Chicago Marathon hits capacity<\/a>, the autopsy report<\/a> for Adam Nickel, the Wisconsin runner who died at Little Rock, and the Massai <\/a>took on the London Marathon<\/a>. Other running news<\/a> included a bomb exploding in Sri Lanka during a marathon and a swarm of bees attacked runners in Japan.<\/p>\n

I was able to find some humor and found two must read lists<\/a> for runners.<\/p>\n

At the beginning of the month I decided to upgrade my blog<\/a> and almost had a major disaster. I think everything is fixed now but it was almost painful. UGH!!!<\/p>\n

Shew it was a busy month – also don’t forget to check out Foto Fridays<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can’t believe it is May already. 5 months in the Twin Cities and we are enjoying it all (except for the endless bouts of snow!) April was a busy month with two races, the Earth Day Half-Marathon and the Get in Gear 10K. I also decided to step up and register for a marathon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highlights"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4iaAv-44","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1828,"url":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2010\/tcm-registration-opens\/","url_meta":{"origin":252,"position":0},"title":"TCM Registration Opens","author":"crossn81","date":"February 2, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Today marks the beginning of registration for the Twin Cities Marathon on October 3.\u00a0 This is the earliest registration has opened and they are expecting it to sell out quickly. 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