{"id":3493,"date":"2017-12-09T16:13:34","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T21:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/?p=3493"},"modified":"2024-10-10T18:16:21","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T23:16:21","slug":"cayman-islands-marathon-year-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/?p=3493","title":{"rendered":"Cayman Islands Marathon \u2013 Year 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am having trouble believing that I have ran this race (the half-marathon) 7 times now.\u00a0 It seems like just yesterday when I was the newbie running the first time, all the way back in 2011.<\/p>\n

Same course and always at 5am which I love since I get to run in the darkness (minus street lights) for the first 80 minutes or so. I even have my little routine.\u00a0 I get up at 3am (yes i’m nuts) and immediately jump into my car and drive to my office (of course my gear is ready and in a bag) and get there around 3:20.\u00a0 Then I have a coffee, surf the Internet and take it easy till around 4:40.\u00a0 Then I walk towards the start line and get there about 10 minutes before 5am.<\/p>\n

The race bib this year changed – for the better with a lovely picture of Stingray City.\u00a0 Note the “beer ticket”.\u00a0 For runners who need a drink after the race (on an early Sunday morning …), local brewery Caybrew provided everyone with a cold beer.<\/p>\n

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At the start\/finish line, the same MC we have had every year for as long as I can remember did as always an awesome job.\u00a0 Its always a nice feeling to have your name called out when dashing towards the finish line.<\/p>\n

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At the finisher area ; all chatting and in good spirits (some surely on a runner’s high!) while having water, fruit and a Caybrew.<\/p>\n

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On my way back to my office for a quick shower, I saw the Cayman Compass photo booth.\u00a0 Of course I stopped in for a funny picture \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Back from the office & shower, I went to the Intertrust VIP booth – not sure how I got on their list, but I am not complaining. Coffee, awesome breakfast, mimosa’s & the likes. Putting back all those calories I guess.<\/p>\n

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The course! We were lucky it was cool-ish and not humid. As for results: I\u00a0finished the half marathon in 1h42min \u2013 I am very pleased.\u00a0 That places me 32nd in a field of 613 half marathon runners.\u00a0 Not bad for an old guy \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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One last item of interest.\u00a0On November 29th,\u00a0 the population of Grand Cayman went from +-55,000 to 75,000. Around 20,000 people came ashore on 6 cruise ships. Glad I did not need to go to the harbor area that day.\u00a0 Great for tourism in Cayman though!<\/p>\n

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I am having trouble believing that I have ran this race (the half-marathon) 7 times now.\u00a0 It seems like just yesterday when I was the newbie running the first time, all the way back in 2011. Same course and always at 5am which I love since I get to run in the darkness (minus street […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living-in-cayman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3493"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3510,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493\/revisions\/3510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}