{"id":2839,"date":"2010-06-07T03:00:31","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T07:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.2beerguys.com\/blog\/?p=2839"},"modified":"2010-06-06T18:00:49","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T22:00:49","slug":"2010harpoon-5-miler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/07\/2010harpoon-5-miler\/","title":{"rendered":"Harpoon 5 Miler &#8211; Yeah, I did it!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.2beerguys.com\/images\/forblog\/harpoon_5milerlogo.jpg\" alt=\"harpoon 5 mile race\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>THANK YOU HARPOON &#8211; YOU ROCK!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I just wanted to give a quick thanks to Harpoon Brewery and the Angel foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan (thirsty beard) and I ran the Harpoon 5-miler on Saturday.\u00a0 This was my second 5-miler and Ryan&#8217;s third.\u00a0 To be honest, I wasn&#8217;t very enthusiastic to run 5 miles on Saturday morning &#8211; but it turned out to be an amazing day.<\/p>\n<p>When I got up (at about 6:00) there was a crazy rain storm in my area.\u00a0 For those who don&#8217;t know me, I am not a fan of the rain.<\/p>\n<p>Well, Ryan and I traveled into the city without any expectations.\u00a0 After registering for the event, we came up with a plan to start at the back of the pack\u00a0 &#8212; and run at our own race.\u00a0 This decision proved to be wise.\u00a0 We completed the race at our expected time and was able to enjoy the post race activities.<\/p>\n<p>We didn&#8217;t sign up to win (we are slow &#8211; well I am slow), we signed up to help Harpoon and the Angel fund find a cure.\u00a0 This year&#8217;s  donation to the Angel Fund is $80,000!<\/p>\n<p>As a craft beer fan, it was amazing to see all of the Harpoon employees facilitating the event, even the owners.\u00a0 It&#8217;s crazy to get to the front of the beer line and see the owner pouring your beer.\u00a0 What an amazing situation.\u00a0 Harpoon &#8211; You Rock!!<\/p>\n<p>If you also participated, here are the results: <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.coolrunning.com\/results\/10\/ma\/Jun5_Harpoo_set1.shtml');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.coolrunning.com\/results\/10\/ma\/Jun5_Harpoo_set1.shtml\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also, Ryan and I met many great people during the post race celebration.\u00a0 Runners traveled from all over the US to participate in this event.\u00a0 I met a Stan (a Scotland Soccer Supporter &#8211; Celtics fan &#8211; yeah, that&#8217;s a Celtics [not basketball] tattoo)(Celtics and Rangers are arch-rival\u00a0 football teams in Glasgow) and his friend Jill.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a picture of Stan and I:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.2beerguys.com\/images\/forblog\/harpoon_5_miler_stan_sean.jpg\" alt=\"Sean and Stan after the harpoon 5 miler\" width=\"436\" height=\"328\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THANK YOU HARPOON &#8211; YOU ROCK!! I just wanted to give a quick thanks to Harpoon Brewery and the Angel foundation. Ryan (thirsty beard) and I ran the Harpoon 5-miler on Saturday.\u00a0 This was my second 5-miler and Ryan&#8217;s third.\u00a0 To be honest, I wasn&#8217;t very enthusiastic to run 5 miles on Saturday morning &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,28,75],"tags":[156,1015,2047],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/harpoon_5milerlogo1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2839"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2841,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions\/2841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}