Wow \u2013 talk about a busy couple of weeks. First, we went to\u00a0Huntington Beach\u00a0to celebrate Thanksgiving with some friends. Then, it was off to Vegas to run in my first (and possibly last) \u00bd marathon.<\/p>\n
So, how did I do? Answer: AWESOME! I wanted to break 2 hours 10 minutes, and I came in at 2:09:12 \u2013 not bad for a fat guy pushing forty. I also managed to beat the time of the full marathon winner, which was a secondary goal for me. If you\u2019re interested in seeing the results, click thisRESULSTS LINK<\/a>.<\/p>\n Overall it was a great experience: almost 30,000 runners in total for the full and half marathons, racing down the Vegas strip in the early morning hours. My aunt and my brother-in-law also participated, and my wife, parents and other aunt were there to cheer us on. Plus, VEGAS BABY!<\/p>\n If you\u2019re into running, I highly recommend it \u2013 interesting views, nice flat course and you can celebrate by staying up for 24 straight hours and losing your shirt at the blackjack tables (like I did). But be warned \u2013 there is a price to pay! I\u2019ve been fighting the flu ever since I got on the plane to come home. It\u2019s like I\u2019m getting old or something.<\/p>\n In other news,\u00a0Darth Bane: Dynasty of Evil<\/a> is now out! If you haven\u2019t read it yet, go out and get yourself a copy! No sales figures yet (maybe next update), but the early reaction has been good. There is just one *small* problem. A lot of people are confused by the ending. So, if you\u2019re one of those people you can go to my\u00a0SUPER SECRET SPOILER<\/a> page and read my thoughts on it.<\/p>\n Okay, that\u2019s about it for now. December is a busy time for me, but I\u2019m going to squeeze in one more update before Christmas (hopefully with some early sales results for Dynasty of Evil).<\/p>\n Drew<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wow \u2013 talk about a busy couple of weeks. First, we went to\u00a0Huntington Beach\u00a0to celebrate Thanksgiving with some friends. Then, it was off to Vegas to run in my first (and possibly last) \u00bd marathon. So, how did I do? Answer: AWESOME! I wanted to break 2 hours 10 minutes,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/drewkarpyshyn.com\/c\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/drewkarpyshyn.com\/c\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/drewkarpyshyn.com\/c\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drewkarpyshyn.com\/c\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drewkarpyshyn.com\/c\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/drewkarpyshyn.com\/c\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"http:\/\/drewkarpyshyn.com\/c\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/drewkarpyshyn.com\/c\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drewkarpyshyn.com\/c\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drewkarpyshyn.com\/c\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}