{"id":94,"date":"2009-01-01T14:25:34","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T19:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/?p=94"},"modified":"2009-01-01T14:46:34","modified_gmt":"2009-01-01T19:46:34","slug":"des-moines-half-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/2009\/01\/des-moines-half-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Des Moines half-marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 19 I ran the Des Moines half-marathon with Mike Luepke, former Covenant missionary to Zaire and Cameroon.\u00a0 Mike and his wife Gwen live in Des Moines where Mike is a doctor.\u00a0 Race day was great weather, about 50 or so.\u00a0 Mike and I started farther back in the pack of ~6,500 than we would have liked so had to work our way around a lot of people to settle into the pace we wanted.\u00a0 We hit a good pace and kept moving forward and even catching up with some of the pace setters.\u00a0 Cindy and Gwen moved around the course andn cheered us on 3 times.\u00a0 What fun!!\u00a0 Coming to the end I was feeling great and told Mike I was going to start kicking.\u00a0 I did the last mile in under 8 minutes.\u00a0\u00a0 Final time:\u00a0 1hr, 53 min for 8 min 37 sec\/mile average.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some photos:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/album.php?aid=65614&amp;l=705b7&amp;id=723734788\">half-marathon photos<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=94&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 19 I ran the Des Moines half-marathon with Mike Luepke, former Covenant missionary to Zaire and Cameroon.\u00a0 Mike and his wife Gwen live in Des Moines where Mike is a doctor.\u00a0 Race day was great weather, about 50 or so.\u00a0 Mike and I started farther back in the pack of ~6,500 than we would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Des Moines half-marathon - Ekstrands in Congo<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/2009\/01\/des-moines-half-marathon\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Des Moines half-marathon - Ekstrands in Congo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"October 19 I ran the Des Moines half-marathon with Mike Luepke, former Covenant missionary to Zaire and Cameroon.\u00a0 Mike and his wife Gwen live in Des Moines where Mike is a doctor.\u00a0 Race day was great weather, about 50 or so.\u00a0 Mike and I started farther back in the pack of ~6,500 than we would [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/2009\/01\/des-moines-half-marathon\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ekstrands in Congo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-01-01T19:25:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2009-01-01T19:46:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Pete &amp; 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