{"id":94,"date":"2016-12-16T14:55:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T14:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/2016\/12\/16\/2017-1-7-angkor-wat-half-marathon\/"},"modified":"2016-12-16T14:55:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T14:55:00","slug":"2017-1-7-angkor-wat-half-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/2016\/12\/16\/2017-1-7-angkor-wat-half-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Angkor Wat Half Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sqs-html-content\" data-sqsp-text-block-content>\n<blockquote><p>You must have been the tallest people in the race!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well no, because Cambodian&#8217;s don&#8217;t run for run. Expats do and they came in their droves to Siem Reap to race around ancient temples. So many of our friends from BKK were going we got a nice little crew together for the weekend.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It started before dawn, but heavy clouds robbed us of the epic Angkor Wat sunrise. Rebecca and I had a very interrupted training regime, so we suffered through a 5min run, 2 min walk schedule with low expectations. It was very muggy with the clouds and the water-loss was intense.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"image-gallery-wrapper\">\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/556929f2e4b014bf433af2e1\/1483800277902-INTD9QRE51OYYNDDVIIS\/IMG_0722.jpg?format=original\" \/><\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/556929f2e4b014bf433af2e1\/1483800262493-79QDGQ7COAND5KSU1FP0\/IMG_0715.jpg?format=original\" \/><\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/556929f2e4b014bf433af2e1\/1483800373789-KPFBX4QP6ZPQB8M1NL2O\/IMG_0740.JPG?format=original\" \/><\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/556929f2e4b014bf433af2e1\/1483800279338-DO7LC8ABE53NXUJJ0KZP\/IMG_0727.jpg?format=original\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m_q6PFP5boQ?wmode=opaque&amp;enablejsapi=1\" height=\"480\" width=\"854\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"sqs-html-content\" data-sqsp-text-block-content>\n<p>The trail is lined with local families for miles, and we high-fived the adorably scruffy little kids. It was very peaceful in some places, passing overgrown ruins and jungle, and busy and trafficked in others. I needed serious cajoling to run over the finish line, but Becks got me through.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/556929f2e4b014bf433af2e1\/1510737607892-2Q9943OGS8SOEAEMRV2F\/High+fiving+kids+in+Siem+Reap?format=original\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"sqs-html-content\" data-sqsp-text-block-content>\n<p>We spent the rest of the day relaxing and had a great night out in the always entertaining Pub Street area.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The next day, we took a <a href=\"\/blog?tag=Cambodia.\">tuk-tuk tour to the Tonle<\/a> lake, where fisherman live on floating houses. It&#8217;s scenic but poor, with families living with no plumbing or electricity, raising kids and animals on platforms.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/juhcYDBBSHU?wmode=opaque&amp;enablejsapi=1\" height=\"480\" width=\"854\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"sqs-html-content\" data-sqsp-text-block-content>\n<p>There was a crocodile farm beside the tourist shop, and we listened in awe as 3 women in attached houses screamed bloody murder at each other through their flimsy partitions. Village life is the same everywhere, I guess!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"image-gallery-wrapper\">\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/556929f2e4b014bf433af2e1\/1483800466418-W9HM0XL31MEGDK7RDOBR\/IMG_0899.jpg?format=original\" \/><\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/556929f2e4b014bf433af2e1\/1483800434572-I8EIO5F2FLJ0UL1N6XV1\/IMG_0920.jpg?format=original\" \/><\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/556929f2e4b014bf433af2e1\/1483800482214-TW22VMNXDTIMI36B616S\/IMG_0984.jpg?format=original\" \/><\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/556929f2e4b014bf433af2e1\/1483801484394-ZHR51Q3D46H4B5GI4LXG\/IMG_0859.jpg?format=original\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sqs-html-content\" data-sqsp-text-block-content>\n<p>The Cambodian countryside is so beautiful and serene, it was a lovely break from smoggy Bangkok. It had me fantasizing about a cottage in a rice paddy..with air conditioning of course!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangkok ladies head to Siem Reap to plod through old temples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3],"tags":[12,51,52],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-travel","tag-cambodia","tag-half-marathon","tag-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}