{"id":3910,"date":"2012-02-27T09:56:26","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T17:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2012\/02\/27\/paul-whittredge-12-sets-record-pace\/"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:14:44","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T17:14:44","slug":"paul-whittredge-12-sets-record-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2012\/02\/paul-whittredge-12-sets-record-pace\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Whittredge &#8217;12 Sets Record for 2 Mile Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just picked this news up from the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed_magazine\/2012\/02\/chem-major-shatters-track-record.html\"><b>Reed Magazine blog<\/b><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chem major <b>Paul Whittredge &#8217;12<\/b> shattered a<br \/>\nlongstanding Reed track record on Saturday, running two miles in 10:21.7<br \/>\nseconds, and demolishing the previous time, which had stood since 1956,<br \/>\nby almost 17 seconds. His training partner, Jack Flowers &#8217;15, also beat the old record, finishing just four seconds behind Paul. (for rest of story and photo see <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed_magazine\/2012\/02\/chem-major-shatters-track-record.html\"><b>&#8220;Chem Major Shatters Track Record&#8221;<\/b><\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The fact that the old record has been around nearly as long as I have (b. 1955), and that Paul and Jack had to travel off-campus for their run, makes me wonder: would more Reedies take up running if we had a better track? The Reed magazine also mentions that Paul&#8217;s thesis project involves &#8216;zinc fingers&#8217;. Here&#8217;s a <b><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zinc_finger\">Wikipedia link<\/a><\/b> that will help the curious get started on this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just picked this news up from the Reed Magazine blog: Chem major Paul Whittredge &#8217;12 shattered a longstanding Reed track record on Saturday, running two miles in 10:21.7 seconds, and demolishing the previous time, which had stood since 1956,&nbsp;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2012\/02\/paul-whittredge-12-sets-record-pace\/\">finish&nbsp;reading&nbsp;Paul Whittredge &#8217;12 Sets Record for 2 Mile Journey<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3910"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4297,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910\/revisions\/4297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}