{"id":924,"date":"2014-05-06T21:20:05","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T01:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/?p=924"},"modified":"2014-05-06T21:20:05","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T01:20:05","slug":"happy-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/?p=924","title":{"rendered":"Happy Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

After bailing on my last 32k run I set out today to just spend some time running without panicking about the distance. \u00a0My goal was to complete 2 hours of running, i<\/strong>f and only<\/strong> if\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>my body felt like it. \u00a0I’m happy to report that in the end I did 2 hours and 57 minutes of running, and a total of 28 km. \u00a0There was nothing spectacular about the run, I kept my pace slow and steady and I stopped my watch and took the time to stretch any time I felt like I was getting sore. \u00a0With just under 3 weeks until the marathon, I knew I had to make sure I did nothing to injure myself. \u00a0Mentally though, this was a good run. \u00a0I now feel like I have done all I can do to complete a marathon, and that is a good feeling.<\/p>\n

I am not a marathon runner. \u00a0Well, I kind of am since I have done one and I\u00a0was crazy enough to sign up for another. \u00a0What I mean is this is not my distance. \u00a0I don’t at all mean that in a negative way. \u00a0I love the half marathon, I think I have it in me to be a faster 10k runner, I discovered at my last race that 10 miles is an awesome race distance, and I can honestly say I enjoyed my first 30k race in March. \u00a0Marathons and 5k’s though, just not my distances. \u00a0That said I am proud of myself for taking on race distances that aren’t in my comfort zone (really, there is nothing comfortable about running a marathon, or for that matter trying to run a speedy 5k). \u00a0And I am thrilled that I worked my way through another round of marathon training. \u00a0I am a stronger runner for it and once again I have accomplished things I thought impossible. \u00a0Heck, I just ran 22 km, took a day off and ran another 28! \u00a0Really, I did that?!?<\/p>\n

Here’s the best part of today’s run. \u00a0Once finished I headed to a store to buy my favourite post run drink, chocolate milk. \u00a0The very bored looking teenage cashier asked if I had just gone for a run. \u00a0I couldn’t resist a little bragging, she did ask after all! \u00a0I replied that I had finished a 3 hour run. \u00a0I thought her eyes were going to pop out of her head, it was like I had said something that was nothing short of impossible \ud83d\ude42 \u00a0I admit it, it is fun to impress someone less than half my age!<\/p>\n

Now it is officially taper time for me. \u00a0I am not even going to look at a training schedule. \u00a0My body is telling me it is taper time, it needs some rest. \u00a0So all of my runs are now going to be done by feel to make sure I am rested and ready to enjoy the marathon, regardless of how slow or fast I am come race day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After bailing on my last 32k run I set out today to just spend some time running without panicking about the distance. \u00a0My goal was to complete 2 hours of running, if and only if\u00a0my body felt like it. \u00a0I’m happy to report that in the end I did 2 hours and 57 minutes of […]<\/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-924","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-eU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924","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=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":925,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions\/925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}