{"id":23,"date":"2015-04-20T07:16:33","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T06:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/srmcreative.com\/runblog\/?p=23"},"modified":"2019-12-19T23:25:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T23:25:20","slug":"golf-course-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/index.php\/2015\/04\/20\/golf-course-races\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf Course Races"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/desertrunaround.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/11\/screenshot-2014-11-23-14-14-51.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"678\" height=\"668\" src=\"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2014-illum-track.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2014-illum-track.png 678w, https:\/\/azventurer.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2014-illum-track-300x296.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I have no idea how common golf course races are elsewhere, but it seems to be a semi-popular thing to do around here. I&#8217;ve been doing one (The Glow Run, which hopefully I will write about sometime) out at the golf course at the Encanterra Country Club for several years now, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/index.php\/2014\/11\/29\/illuminations-half-marathon\/\">Illuminations half marathon<\/a> (which was awesome) was on the course at the JW Mariott in Scottsdale. I know of a couple others that I haven&#8217;t tried, but I should sometime, because I love them. You do races that run up and down city streets, and you&#8217;re looking at a lot of long, straight, mostly-flat miles. Golf course races are mazes that curve and twist and cross each other over and over again. It&#8217;s a lot of fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is on top of the fact that they&#8217;re beautiful. Water features, bridges, perfectly-manicured grass&#8211;I&#8217;m not a golfer and likely never will be, but that doesn&#8217;t mean I don&#8217;t appreciate how much care goes into those courses. They&#8217;re lovely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And finally, as someone who used to sneak onto a neighborhood golf course at night illicitly, there&#8217;s something about using a golf course for a purpose for which it was never intended that makes me feel both privileged to be there and like I&#8217;m getting away with something at the same time. It&#8217;s just fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have no idea how common golf course races are elsewhere, but it seems to be a semi-popular thing to do around here. I&#8217;ve been doing one (The Glow Run, which hopefully I will write about sometime) out at the golf course at the Encanterra Country Club for several years now, and the Illuminations half&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/index.php\/2015\/04\/20\/golf-course-races\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Golf Course Races<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-races","category-road-running","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661,"href":"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}