{"id":303,"date":"2005-07-11T23:04:35","date_gmt":"2005-07-12T03:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/blog\/?p=303"},"modified":"2005-07-11T23:04:35","modified_gmt":"2005-07-12T03:04:35","slug":"kicking-and-screaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/2005\/07\/11\/kicking-and-screaming\/","title":{"rendered":"kicking and screaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight marks day two in my quest to get back into the running form I had right before I started ultimate last summer, which effectively killed my running long distances (I got hurt in the first game of the year, and was injury prone for the following 6 months). I&#8217;m planning on running the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pecmarathon.ca\/home.html\" title=\"Little, cool, fun.\">Prince Edward County<\/a> half marathon with the Wed night crowd in October, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlemarathon.org\/\" title=\"The real deal, complete with friends to motivate me\">Seattle Marathon<\/a> eight weeks later as part of a vacation jaunt out West. I&#8217;m starting slow, with 4-6km runs and will build my distance from there. Of course, I am picking the worst time to do it.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday was hot and humid in Ottawa, but I completed my run in spite of it. I got a bit of heat rash and a blister in the process, but the net result felt really good, especially after stretching for 20 minutes. Tonight was a little different, in that I&#8217;m in Denver and it was 36 degrees outside (but only 15% humidity). The extra 5,300 feet of altitude doesn&#8217;t help at all, but I toughed it out and despite feeling just a little wrecked (fatigue-wise), it&#8217;s all good.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sore, I&#8217;m tired, but I feel pretty positive about the whole thing. Tomorrow will be a gym workout to bring the top half back into line, too. I can do this, and I&#8217;ll return to <a href=\"http:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/images\/2004-04-25-run.jpg\" title=\"this is me on crack\">my fun runs<\/a> where I get a <a href=\"http:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/images\/2004-04-25-run-hr.jpg\" title=\"the dip is a stretch break\">great workout<\/a> by the end of the summer. The plan is to run a 1:50 half, and a 4:00 full. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight marks day two in my quest to get back into the running form I had right before I started ultimate last summer, which effectively killed my running long distances (I got hurt in the first game of the year, and was injury prone for the following 6 months). I&#8217;m planning on running the Prince [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}