{"id":240,"date":"2013-06-25T13:34:25","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T04:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/?p=240"},"modified":"2013-06-25T13:34:25","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T04:34:25","slug":"warrior-dash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/?p=240","title":{"rendered":"Warrior Dash!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last weekend Dan and I trekked out to Sagamiko to run the Warrior Dash!<\/p>\n

I did Warrior Dash in Portland OR in 2011 with my sister and her coworker. I walked almost all of it, and skipped a couple obstacles. I was about 20 lbs heavier and finished in just under 2 hours.
\nMy sister (left) and me in 2011
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This year was going to be different. I had half marathons under my belt! I’ve been weight training! I was ready to dominate! Dan and I signed up, along with a few other people from our running group.
\nArriving in Sagamiko! Me, Dan, Chiara, Kuniko, Erica and Annmaree
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\nWe got to the race site and got our bibs, t shirts and bag check bags. I don’t normally buy souvenirs, but they had cute rhinestone bottle openers for only 500 yen, so I bought one \ud83d\ude42
\nHere we are- ready to start!!
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I don’t have any pictures of us running the race, because it’s pretty physical with the obstacles and mud pit at the end. I was worried I wouldn’t do well because it was almost completely up hill, and we had to wait in line to complete obstacles. There was a horizontal cargo net to climb across, a vertical wall, balance beams, nets to crawl under, and many more. It was fun! <\/p>\n

The “mud pit” was disappointing. It was essentially a kiddy pool of dirty water. I ran through the finish w Erica and we found everyone cheering for us! We also had to get a picture of ourselves post-race!
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\nDan and I are warriors! (and I’m pretty sure that shirt will never be white again!)
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I also managed to finish nearly an hour faster than 2 years ago! Epic PR!<\/p>\n

There were some makeshift showers, so we got cleaned up the best we could, and then went to enjoy the festivities. We found a table and listened to live music and chatted and watched people finish the race.
\nClean and in matching shirts!
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\nErica and I!
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\nSince we were far from the city, we decided to start heading back. We walked 15 minutes to get to the bus stop, and then took a bus to the train station. From there we decided to get sushi for dinner, and trained about 25-30 minutes closer to Tokyo. We Googled a restaurant, but when we finally walked to it from the train station, there was no building! We asked some locals and it had been gone for a while. So we decided to walk to the next closest place, which was about a 25 minute walk. We put our name down, and it was a 2 hour wait! For whatever reason we waited, and chatted, and played game on our phones, and it was a nice summer night, so it wasn’t too bad. <\/p>\n

Finally, we got to sit and eat! Can you tell how hungry Annmaree was?!
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\nWe walked back to the station and piled onto a train, where one by one we kept losing a person as we all went our separate ways into the city. Eventually it was just Dan and I, and by the time we got home we were exhausted! Such a fun day though!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last weekend Dan and I trekked out to Sagamiko to run the Warrior Dash! I did Warrior Dash in Portland OR in 2011 with my sister and her coworker. I walked almost all of it, and skipped a couple obstacles. I was about 20 lbs heavier and finished in just under 2 hours. My sister […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[76,11,230,242,130,57,393],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-friends","tag-japan","tag-race-report","tag-races","tag-running","tag-sushi","tag-warrior-dash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}