{"id":143,"date":"2015-04-03T08:44:24","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T06:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsports.com\/?p=143"},"modified":"2015-04-03T08:44:24","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T06:44:24","slug":"ecotrail-de-paris-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oldsports.com\/?p=143","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ecotrail&#8221; de Paris 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My second go at the <a title=\"Paris Ecotrail\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ecotrail.livetrail.net\" target=\"_blank\">Ecotrail<\/a>, an 80km run from Paris suburb Saint Quentin en Yvelines into town. Last year finished in around 12 1\/2 hours at the very grand Trocadero. This year it was even more splendid with a finish on the first stage of the Eiffel tower. Like many, I probably ran the first 20k or so (which are on the flat) a bit too fast and felt pain in the upper front part of my thighs around km 30. Around 50km into the race us tail enders were doing a fair amount of walking and what with some stuffing down of (rather unappetizing) food at the ravitaillements I was in good shape for the final 10km along the Seine, into Paris and up the Eiffel tower where, to my disappointment, we were not hosted in the famed <a title=\"Jules Verne restaurant\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lejulesverne-paris.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\">Jules Verne<\/a> restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>Why is it called the Ecotrail you may ask? A good question. The organizers would have you believe that you are running &#8220;to save the planet&#8221; or some such. To which end they supply reusable drinking cups (no plastic throwaways) and a train ticket to the start from Paris. They also will post your race bib etc. saving a trip to collect.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My second go at the Ecotrail, an 80km run from Paris suburb Saint Quentin en Yvelines into town. Last year finished in around 12 1\/2 hours at the very grand Trocadero. This year it was even more splendid with a finish on the first stage of the Eiffel tower. Like many, I probably ran the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/oldsports.com\/?p=143\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Ecotrail&#8221; de Paris 2015<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oldsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oldsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oldsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oldsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oldsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oldsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oldsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oldsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oldsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}