{"id":24,"date":"2009-04-02T01:23:17","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T08:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.logthatrun.com\/blog\/?p=24"},"modified":"2009-04-17T02:22:46","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T06:22:46","slug":"usain-bolt-will-rabbit-the-boston-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.logthatrun.com\/blog\/usain-bolt-will-rabbit-the-boston-marathon","title":{"rendered":"Usain Bolt Will Rabbit The Boston Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Usain Bolt, world record holder and three-time Olympic Gold medalist, is expected to be a rabbit in the Boston Marathon on April 20th. Surprisingly I learned from Runner&#8217;s World today that he has been hired to run as a &#8220;rabbit,&#8221; pacing the leaders through mile 15.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see how he will fair as a pace runner. Honestly though, I&#8217;m actually wondering if he will be able to pace the leaders for 15 miles being that he is primarily a sprinter. To me it sounds like a odd choice for a pace runner. And of course he is known for his show boating so I&#8217;m not sure what we can expect from him. Will he try to keep running the whole race? But from what Runner&#8217;s World has been told it sounds like there won&#8217;t be to many surprises. &#8220;We fully expect he&#8217;ll do the right thing: Run at the front for 15 miles, then step aside and give some of the slower guys a shot at winning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; This just in, April fools!<\/p>\n<p>Well no matter I&#8217;m sure the Boston Marathon will be a spectacular race this year. Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.logthatrun.com\/race\/Boston-Marathon-2009.php#coursemap\">interactive race course<\/a> posted in our race directory to see where the course goes.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: \"Usain Bolt Will Rabbit The Boston Marathon\", url: \"https:\/\/www.logthatrun.com\/blog\/usain-bolt-will-rabbit-the-boston-marathon\" });<\/script><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usain Bolt, world record holder and three-time Olympic Gold medalist, is expected to be a rabbit in the Boston Marathon on April 20th. Surprisingly I learned from Runner&#8217;s World today that he has been hired to run as a &#8220;rabbit,&#8221; pacing the leaders through mile 15. It will be interesting to see how he will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: \"Usain Bolt Will Rabbit The Boston Marathon\", url: \"https:\/\/www.logthatrun.com\/blog\/usain-bolt-will-rabbit-the-boston-marathon\" });<\/script><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-races-and-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.logthatrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.logthatrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.logthatrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.logthatrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.logthatrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.logthatrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.logthatrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.logthatrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.logthatrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}