{"id":434,"date":"2006-03-22T22:20:39","date_gmt":"2006-03-23T03:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/blog\/?p=434"},"modified":"2006-03-22T22:20:39","modified_gmt":"2006-03-23T03:20:39","slug":"good-for-the-sole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/2006\/03\/22\/good-for-the-sole\/","title":{"rendered":"good for the sole"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"g2image_float_right\"><wpg2>misccrap\/blog\/good4sole<\/wpg2><\/div>\n<p>Hate the pun, not the punny guy.<\/p>\n<p>Some days I realise just how lucky I am, and today was one of those days. There&#8217;s a group of really great people who run on Wednesday nights. These people are my friends, and they are truly awesome.<\/p>\n<p>For a variety of reasons, mostly injury related, I haven&#8217;t run with the crew for about six months. Tonight, I decided it was time to take the plunge and go with them, instead of soloing and meeting up afterwards. I was really aprehensive about running, because I&#8217;m still not anywhere close to the level I was at 18 months ago, and I didn&#8217;t want to hold anyone back. We ran just over 4km, and managed to bring it in at about a 6.5min\/km pace (normally we do a 6min pace), including a walking break here and there for yours truly. No one cared that it was a couple km less and a little slower than they normally ran, nor that we walked twice for a minute or so each time. They were just happy I was out with them and that I finished healthy. I can&#8217;t tell you how good that made me feel.<\/p>\n<p>Running makes me happy. Running with my friends makes me glow (I can&#8217;t think of a better way to put it, so there it is). Tonight was fantastic, and is a huge step back on track for me.<\/p>\n<p>After our run we went to Iz&#8217;s for mushroom risotto, mesclun salad with balsalmic dressing, and a hot smoked salmon (the salmon was chilled when served, it&#8217;s the smoking process that was hot, which resulted in nicely blackend flesh) that was incredible. Oh, and there were <a href=\"http:\/\/gauntlet.ucalgary.ca\/supplements\/78\/index.php?sid=8036\" title=\"who knew Calgary had some class?\">Crown Floats<\/a>, too. The package was wrapped up with some great conversation, more than a little ribbing, and a terrific sense of how this is the way I should feel all the time. I&#8217;ve missed feeling as good as I do now.<\/p>\n<p>Truly good for the soul, and I can&#8217;t get over how much I&#8217;ve missed hitting the pavement with the Wednesday night crowd. I&#8217;ll sleep well tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>misccrap\/blog\/good4sole Hate the pun, not the punny guy. Some days I realise just how lucky I am, and today was one of those days. There&#8217;s a group of really great people who run on Wednesday nights. These people are my friends, and they are truly awesome. For a variety of reasons, mostly injury related, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,50,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-running","category-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","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=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}