{"id":2187,"date":"2008-03-26T15:29:14","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T22:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2187"},"modified":"2008-03-26T15:29:24","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T22:29:24","slug":"a-fast-american-enters-carlsbad-5000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2187","title":{"rendered":"A Fast American Enters Carlsbad 5000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/cbad5000.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/cbad5000.jpg','popup','width=620,height=120,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/cbad5000-tm.jpg\" height=\"83\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Cbad5000\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As if we needed one more reason to feel lazy on the morning of April 6, 2008. The <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/sports\/20080326-9999-1s26webb.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/em><\/strong> tells us that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>American mile record holder <strong>Alan Webb<\/strong> has entered the April 6 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eliteracing.com\/carlsbad.html\" target=\"_blank\">Carlsbad 5000<\/a><\/strong>, according to sources at <strong>Elite Racing<\/strong>, which puts on the 5K road race. &#8220;He&#8217;s definitely coming,&#8221; Webb&#8217;s agent, <strong>Ray Flynn<\/strong>, said yesterday. . . . Webb broke <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clickoncarlsbad.com\/Stories\/steve_scott.html\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Scott&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> nearly 25-year-old record in the mile last July in Belgium, running four laps in 3 minutes, 46.91 seconds. Scott&#8217;s record was 3:47.69.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An American runner hasn&#8217;t won the Carlsbad 5000 since 2002. And when fast Americans enter, we guess that&#8217;s big news. Run, American, run.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/sports\/20080326-9999-1s26webb.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As if we needed one more reason to feel lazy on the morning of April 6, 2008. The San Diego Union-Tribune tells us that: American mile record holder Alan Webb has entered the April 6 Carlsbad 5000, according to sources at Elite Racing, which puts on the 5K road race. &#8220;He&#8217;s definitely coming,&#8221; Webb&#8217;s agent, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}