{"id":223311,"date":"2015-04-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/notes-from-the-boston-marathon\/"},"modified":"2015-04-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T07:00:00","slug":"notes-from-the-boston-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/notes-from-the-boston-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from the Boston Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deanne Ross, owner of the ACT II women\u2019s clothing resale store on La Mesa Boulevard, was one of more than 30,000 official participants in this year\u2019s Boston Marathon.<!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_902\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-902\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lamesacourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Deanne-Ross.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-902 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/lamesacourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Deanne-Ross-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Deanne Ross (Courtesy Deanne Ross)\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 225px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 225\/300;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-902\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deanne Ross (Courtesy Deanne Ross)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ross finished the 26.2-mile race in 3 hours, 44 minutes and 38 seconds \u2014 an average pace of 8 minutes and 35 seconds per mile \u2014 according to the official results posted online.<\/p>\n<p>Ross, who qualified for Boston with her performance at the Carlsbad Half Marathon, was up against weather conditions much harsher than anything she was used to at home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was super rainy and windy and freezing cold,\u201d she said. \u201cI got a good time considering the weather.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even for Boston, the rain was a rare event, but it didn\u2019t stop the thousands of spectators who lined up, sometimes 10 people deep, all along the course to cheer for the runners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was incredible,\u201d Ross said. \u201cNothing could prepare you for this. You felt like you were in the Olympics for running.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ross said any runner who has the opportunity to participate in the Boston Marathon should go for it.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Do you have an idea for someone we should feature in the La Mesa Courier? Write to the editor at <a href=\"mailto:jeremy@sdcnn.com\">jeremy@sdcnn.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deanne Ross, owner of the ACT II women\u2019s clothing resale store on La Mesa Boulevard, was one of more than 30,000 official participants in this year\u2019s Boston Marathon.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":221939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11548","_seopress_titles_title":"Notes from the Boston Marathon","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11547,11548,11551],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-la-mesa-courier","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}