It was 2 degrees at the starting line, she told me this in a text this morning. <\/p>\n
I didn’t absorb it at first, and I responded with a sequence of messages about something going on in my world<\/em>. But then it hit me, what they had done.<\/p>\n It was their first race. And it was cold. But… TWO DEGREES. I mean, like… whaaat!?<\/em> I have run in the rain. And I have run in the cold. But two degrees?<\/em> There’s only one digit in 2. Water freezes when it’s 30 degrees warmer than 2.<\/p>\n My feet are cold, and my fingers are cold just thinking about this. I can feel the sting on my nose and on my ears. I cannot get beyond thinking how cold they must have felt…<\/p>\n …as they crossed the finish line together!<\/em><\/p>\n Booyah, Jenny and Katherine!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was 2 degrees at the starting line, she told me this in a text this morning. I didn’t absorb it at first, and I responded with a sequence of messages about something going on in my world. But then it hit me, what they had done. It was their first race. And it was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4887,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886\/revisions\/4887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}