{"id":1092,"date":"2014-08-13T15:32:36","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T19:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2014-08-13T16:30:22","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T20:30:22","slug":"how-many-days-until-the-army-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/?p=1092","title":{"rendered":"How Many Days Until the Army Run?!?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-a-atl.xx.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-xaf1\/v\/t1.0-9\/p526x296\/10568939_749261325116974_2176669650890151885_n.jpg?oh=7ba9d9bcd4a6fc0f5a7d680e5a73ef65&amp;oe=545B0E06\" alt=\"Photo: Check out the runner's bling. It's not too late to register and cross the finish line for one of these medals. There are still 550 spots left in the #ArmyRun half marathon, so register now! http:\/\/bit.ly\/ArmyRun&lt;br \/&gt;\n\/\/&lt;br \/&gt;\nRegardez le bling-bling des coureurs. Il n\u2019est pas trop tard pour vous inscrire et recevoir une de ces m\u00e9dailles \u00e0 la ligne d\u2019arriv\u00e9e. Il reste 550 places au demi-marathon #ArmyRun; inscrivez-vous maintenant! http:\/\/bit.ly\/ArmyRunFR\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0(photo from Army Run Facebook page)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Last week I was visiting a friend who is also a runner. \u00a0She mentioned she had done a 16k long run on the weekend. \u00a0I asked what race she was training for and and she said the Army Run. \u00a0I&#8217;m registered for that race too&#8230; a slight sense of panic hit me but then I thought, oh she is just getting a head start on long runs. \u00a0That race is a long way away.<\/p>\n<p>Then I looked at a calendar. \u00a0Oops. \u00a0I actually <em>should<\/em> be doing 16k runs. \u00a0My idea of a long run right now is 8k. \u00a0I am not just a little behind, I am really behind.<\/p>\n<p>As a teacher I do my best to avoid looking at a calendar in the summer. \u00a0Much of my year is spent planning and looking ahead, I prefer to take things day by day during my vacation. \u00a0Apparently that is not such a good idea when you register for a September race that as of now is only 38 days away. \u00a0Throw in the fact that this race was going to be my goal half marathon race for the fall, well&#8230; clearly I have goofed up.<\/p>\n<p>So, time to move on to plan B. \u00a0I know I can run a half marathon in 38 days, if I had to I guess I could run one this weekend, but it certainly wouldn&#8217;t be pretty. \u00a0I think it is unlikely that I could aim for another sub 2 hour based on the training time I have left. \u00a0Thankfully the Army Run is just an incredible experience in itself, regardless of finish time. \u00a0Last year I ran it as part of a marathon long slow 32k training run. \u00a0Slowing down the pace actually really allowed me to take in the whole spectacular and emotional event, so I am not upset with the idea of slowing things down again this year. \u00a0Plus I have 3 other half marathons I hope to do this fall: Ottawa South, Fall Colours and Mission Possible. \u00a0The only reason I had not picked any of these as time goal races is because they all involve hills.<\/p>\n<p>Bring on those hills, I have some training to do!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0(photo from Army Run Facebook page) Last week I was visiting a friend who is also a runner. \u00a0She mentioned she had done a 16k long run on the weekend. \u00a0I asked what race she was training for and and she said the Army Run. \u00a0I&#8217;m registered for that race too&#8230; a slight sense of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3amQ2-hC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1094,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions\/1094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}