{"id":25,"date":"2011-02-14T08:21:18","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T08:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/?p=25"},"modified":"2011-12-13T17:50:55","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T17:50:55","slug":"smith-breaks-nz-half-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/news\/smith-breaks-nz-half-record","title":{"rendered":"Smith breaks New Zealand Half record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kimberley Smith runs fastest half marathon by a woman on American soil and breaks New Zealand record \u2013 13 February 2011<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_35\" style=\"width: 541px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/smith-nz.590.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35 \" title=\"Kim Smith Half Marathon\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/smith-nz.590.jpg?resize=531%2C225\" alt=\"Kim Smith Half Marathon\" width=\"531\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/smith-nz.590.jpg?w=590&amp;ssl=1 590w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/smith-nz.590.jpg?resize=300%2C127&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-35\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kim Smith Half Marathon<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Kimberley Smith sliced 19 seconds off her New Zealand half marathon record in winning the New Orleans half marathon by over three minutes in 1h 7m 36s.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>She eclipsed Ethiopian Meseret Defar\u2019s best time in the States of 1h 7m 44s set at the Philadelphia half marathon last September.<\/p>\n<p>Smith, training towards the Boston marathon on April 18, recorded her previous record in New Orleans last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy goal was to run a little bit slower because my coach didn\u2019t want me to push it too hard,\u201d said Smith, who finished sixth overall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I felt good out there. I\u2019m training for the Boston Marathon so I\u2019m in pretty heavy training at the moment so I didn\u2019t think I would run this fast. I\u2019m pretty happy after the heavy training week to run like that,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealander Karen Lockyer finished 25th and second woman in the full marathon in 2h 52m 23s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kimberley Smith runs fastest half marathon by a woman on American soil and breaks New Zealand record \u2013 13 February 2011 Kimberley Smith sliced 19 seconds off her New Zealand half marathon record in winning the New Orleans half marathon by over three minutes in 1h 7m 36s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,129,1],"tags":[10,9],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-half","category-news","tag-half-marathon","tag-kimberley-smith"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/smith-nz.590.jpg?fit=590%2C250&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}