{"id":51,"date":"2004-05-25T09:47:33","date_gmt":"2004-05-25T13:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/blog\/?p=51"},"modified":"2004-05-25T09:47:33","modified_gmt":"2004-05-25T13:47:33","slug":"all-that-preparation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/2004\/05\/25\/all-that-preparation\/","title":{"rendered":"all that preparation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So it&#8217;s now five days until the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncm.ca\/\" title=\"half marathon around the canal and arboretum\">race<\/a>, and I&#8217;ve managed to damage myself. I don&#8217;t know whether it was playing ultimate last Wednesday, working out the following Thursday, or just some weird, random accident. I do know that walking home Thursday night was excruciating, and that it still hurts.<\/p>\n<p>I seem to have torn some of the connective tissue on my right tibilais anterior, to the point where there&#8217;s deep bruising visible through the skin at the connecting point. It doesn&#8217;t look like much, but it&#8217;s preventing me from running, and it&#8217;s been a painful distraction for almost five days now. On top of that, my cleats gave me a silver-dollar sized blister on my heel on Wednesday, which is adding to the joy of movement. Thankfully, Dr. Scholl&#8217;s blister pads will take care of the latter, and are amazingly effective.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so happy I&#8217;ve spent the last seven months getting to this point. I finally get close to the big day, and I feel broken. Sunday will no longer be about speed, it&#8217;ll just be about completing (if I race at all).  What a downer. I&#8217;m going to skip the game tomorrow night in hopes that I&#8217;ll be able to heal in time. I&#8217;m not terribly optimistic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it&#8217;s now five days until the race, and I&#8217;ve managed to damage myself. I don&#8217;t know whether it was playing ultimate last Wednesday, working out the following Thursday, or just some weird, random accident. I do know that walking home Thursday night was excruciating, and that it still hurts. I seem to have torn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","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=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}