{"id":4554,"date":"2015-07-08T21:46:54","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T05:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/?p=4554"},"modified":"2015-07-12T22:48:44","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T06:48:44","slug":"super-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/archives\/4554","title":{"rendered":"Super Human"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A grand 4th it was! Although, as I feared, this year it was not a day marked by American Exceptionalism. Take for instance the Mount Marathon race. The course record for women was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adn.com\/article\/20150704\/crown-emelie-forsberg-new-queen-alaskas-mountains\" target=\"_blank\">demolished <\/a>by Miss Forsberg, a French woman who hails from Calais, France.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I caught her <em>cruising<\/em> to the finish line, her hair barely mussed from the effort, like she&#8217;d just come from the bathroom after freshening up<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZsJ4G4iUSac\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To be fair, a young Alaskan woman who finished second, her first year competing as an adult, also beat the course record by a few seconds. She will be one to watch in future years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the men&#8217;s race, a Spaniard, from Spain &#8212; nothing gets by me! &#8212; also set a course record. Nobody in sight behind him either as he also cruised to the finish<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FJX7wxWqHRM\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you think this a race only for the young, think again. I captured this old timer as he approached the base of the climb. Must&#8217;ve been 65 or older. Alone in his thoughts I&#8217;m sure. Clearly he&#8217;s not in it to win. It&#8217;s about bragging rights if I had to venture a guess. Or something he does every year because of a promise he made long ago, probably to himself. Whatever it is he had a long time to think about it. That&#8217;s a steep mountain to get up and down.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S0w9Go7gOTs\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another one of the men approaching the start of the climb<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ql3cNEqK6kU\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Some return a lot more beaten and ragged than when they left<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/blog\/images\/2015\/July\/tough2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"306\" height=\"517\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a look at the summit from near the finish, should you be thinking, &#8220;<em>What&#8217;s So Hard, It&#8217;s Half Downhill.<\/em>&#8221; Less than 42 minutes up and down? These people are not human<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/blog\/images\/2015\/July\/steep.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"444\" height=\"788\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A grand 4th it was! Although, as I feared, this year it was not a day marked by American Exceptionalism. Take for instance the Mount Marathon race. The course record for women was demolished by Miss Forsberg, a French woman who hails from Calais, France. 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