{"id":6446,"date":"2010-11-08T03:29:01","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T08:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/?p=6446"},"modified":"2022-02-18T07:10:52","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T12:10:52","slug":"impossible-5k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/impossible-5k\/","title":{"rendered":"The Impossible 5K"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was watching the Weather Channel on Sunday morning &#8212; yes that&#8217;s something I do for fun, thus proving I&#8217;m a geek on so many different levels &#8212; and they cut to a story on an event called &#8220;The Impossible 5K.&#8221; My wife is a runner and I pick up a lot of new counties as I follow her from race-to-race. The feature grabbed my interest as I learned more. Now I know we&#8217;ll have to head down to Kennesaw, Georgia someday to participate. By participate I mean I&#8217;ll stand there preferably with a beer while the wife runs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ganatlguard\/36742131133\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4492\/36742131133_07051ccdb9_b.jpg\" alt=\"Crowded Field. Photo by Georgia National Guard; (CC BY 2.0)\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Impossible 5K coincides with the change from Daylight Saving Time to Standard Time, looping twice around the inner Ring Road of the Town Center Mall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m10!1m8!1m3!1d5408.3475063990545!2d-84.564021!3d34.017825!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!5e1!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1605874277045!5m2!1sen!2sus\" style=\"border:0;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" aria-hidden=\"false\" tabindex=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why is this The Impossible 5K? Because the race starts at 1:50 am <em>before<\/em> the time changes. Runners are still on the course when the clock moves back an hour and they finish the race before the time they started. Now that&#8217;s my kind of race! 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