I ran 27km yesterday. \u00a027km is a really long run. \u00a0Really, really long. \u00a0Kind of stupid long. \u00a0I know there is a lot of research out there that says humans are made to run. \u00a0But it still begs the question, are we made to run 27km??? \u00a0I remain unconvinced.<\/p>\n
When I managed to stagger up my driveway, stumble through the door and quickly lay on the ground with my legs up the wall, I had time to plan for Around the Bay. \u00a0Let’s just say I am changing my approach.<\/p>\n
I will instead be running the lesser known Around the Bay 20km race. \u00a0I hear it is pretty flat and there will be lots of people with me on the course. \u00a0My goal will be to run a steady but somewhat slow race. \u00a0When I am done I will congratulate myself on a good 20k training run. \u00a0Then I will head for my car. \u00a0Of course my car will be 10km away, apparently over a bunch of hills. \u00a0But that is o.k. because I won’t really be in a rush. \u00a0In fact, I may even throw my Garmin in my pocket. \u00a0After all, if I go somewhere, I don’t time myself to see how long it takes me to get to my car in the parking lot, why should this be different?<\/p>\n
When I have finished my 10k path back to my car some very nice strangers will give me a medal and some food just for – you guessed it – making it back to the general vicinity of my car. \u00a0At that point I might find a place to simply lay down and contemplate the final steps to the parking lot. \u00a0There will probably be some cursing that the parking lot isn’t closer to where I am laying down. \u00a0There is a chance I will keep laying there until someone – a cranky janitor or understanding security guard perhaps – tells me to get off the floor and go home. \u00a0I will then make my final victory lap to the car, head back to Ottawa and congratulate myself for not only running 20km, but successfully making it back to my car…however long that takes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I ran 27km yesterday. \u00a027km is a really long run. \u00a0Really, really long. \u00a0Kind of stupid long. \u00a0I know there is a lot of research out there that says humans are made to run. \u00a0But it still begs the question, are we made to run 27km??? \u00a0I remain unconvinced. When I managed to stagger up […]<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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-813","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-d7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","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=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":815,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions\/815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}