{"id":2881,"date":"2007-10-29T07:58:20","date_gmt":"2007-10-29T15:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/10\/from_the_dept_of_you_could_do_that_but.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T10:58:24","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T15:58:24","slug":"from_the_dept_o_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/from_the_dept_o_1.html","title":{"rendered":"From The Dept. Of &#8220;You Could Do That, But . . .&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, there are times when it just might be better to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/10292007\/news\/regionalnews\/marathon_by_metrocard.htm\">get out and walk<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em> Riding the New York City Marathon on the city&#8217;s mass-transit system was almost as grueling as running it.<\/p>\n<p>It took seven buses and three subway trains to trek through five boroughs along roughly the same 26.2-mile route some 40,000 runners will follow this Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>My race began on the S53 bus in Staten Island, and like the start of the actual marathon, there was little space to breathe.<\/p>\n<p>I had to duck errant elbows and fists, and thanks to one of my fellow riders, I was overcome by the odor of a thousand people sweating.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>If I made every single connection, I could complete the marathon in three hours, 45 minutes &#8212; a respectable finish an hour quicker than my running time last year.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>I crossed the finish line in Central Park in four hours, 57 minutes &#8212; two minutes slower than I ran the race in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Of that time, I spent three hours, 15 minutes riding buses and subways and another one hour, 42 minutes waiting for them.<\/p>\n<p>Along the route that took me on seven buses and three subways, I swiped my MetroCard 10 times.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, there are times when it just might be better to get out and walk: Riding the New York City Marathon on the city&#8217;s mass-transit system was almost as grueling as running it. It took seven buses and three subway trains to trek through five boroughs along roughly the same 26.2-mile route some 40,000 runners [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,44,37,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure","category-need_to_know","category-the_geek_out","category-well_what_did_you_expect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}