{"id":355,"date":"2011-10-03T17:33:04","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T07:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/run.dj\/?p=355"},"modified":"2011-10-03T17:33:04","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T07:33:04","slug":"willy-to-billy-mt-wilson-to-bilpin-or-w2b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/run.dj\/?p=355","title":{"rendered":"Willy to Billy (Mt Wilson to Bilpin or W2B)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/run.dj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Willy-2-Billy-2011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-356\" title=\"Willy 2 Billy 2011\" src=\"http:\/\/run.dj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Willy-2-Billy-2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/run.dj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Willy-2-Billy-2011.jpg 640w, https:\/\/run.dj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Willy-2-Billy-2011-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>Extremely grateful to Randy who gave a lift there and back to myself, Adam Darwin and Paul Blamire. We managed to solve all of the worlds problems during our time in the car. What a fantastic turn out- heaps of NRG&#8217;ers and a wonderful atmosphere. The scones were pretty good however I saw a few people &#8216;recycling&#8217; theirs early on in the race. Trying to keep a good even pace during the first 13km was impossible, with a few challenging hills, then a great mix of downhill, tarmac, and some of the prettiest bush scenes for the next 13km or so. Everyone had been warning me about the &#8216;big hill&#8217; that goes from 26km to 32km, but really it wasn&#8217;t that bad (either that or I got my second wind). Then a bit of roadside running to the finish. My result of 3:42 was about where I&#8217;d expect to be, but I didn&#8217;t have any plans except to try to beat 4 hours as it was my first time. I think I may have to give up my fantasy of a sub 14 hour North Face though- that result isn&#8217;t really in the ballpark. Never mind, that was a fantastic day out, made even better because I was able to have a shower, steak sandwich and lots of beer afterwards. Congratulations to Sam who once again pulled out a stunning performance to finish in 2nd place, I simply can&#8217;t mention all those who turned up for lack of space, but thanks to Randy, Tanya, Rosie and Rodney and others who all came to support us! As I get to know everyone a little better I&#8217;m beginning to think you all aren&#8217;t so crazy, but there is that running thing you do\u2026\u2026..<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the results-<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/results.au.eventdirector.net\/List.asp?a=1&amp;EventID=4660&amp;RaceID=RUN&amp;nDBFirst=1\">http:\/\/results.au.eventdirector.net\/List.asp?a=1&amp;EventID=4660&amp;RaceID=RUN&amp;nDBFirst=1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extremely grateful to Randy who gave a lift there and back to myself, Adam Darwin and Paul Blamire. We managed to solve all of the worlds problems during our time in the car. What a fantastic turn out- heaps of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/run.dj\/?p=355\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/run.dj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/run.dj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/run.dj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/run.dj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/run.dj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/run.dj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361,"href":"https:\/\/run.dj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/run.dj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/run.dj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/run.dj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/run.dj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}