{"id":15785,"date":"2013-09-19T02:09:18","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T02:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/?p=15785"},"modified":"2013-09-19T02:10:13","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T02:10:13","slug":"more-running-and-other-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/?p=15785","title":{"rendered":"More Running&#8230;  And Other Stuff."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we ran.  Running is becoming that thing again- just an after work habit.  Just one more thing in my repertoire.  The best thing of late is that I&#8217;m killing my times.  Yesterday I had my best ever time on Big Loop (1.4 miles) and today I had my third best time.  Woot woot!  My times are improving.  While I know I&#8217;m not supposed to run every day, I can&#8217;t help but think that the consistency is making me a better, faster runner.  I like running every day, and find that when I miss a day I get all that icky lung burn and muscle exhaustion during my next run.  From just one day missed!  So I&#8217;ve decided that lots of short runs are better than intermittent long ones mixed with elliptical.  And goodness gracious if the weather isn&#8217;t perfectly glorious to run in- 65 and sunny.  Sheesh!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130918-185700.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130918-185700.jpg\" alt=\"20130918-185700.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis picture is here for one reason alone: I have not been taking relevant blog-worthy pictures lately and realized that this would be two posts in a row without a picture!  Eek!  We can&#8217;t have that!  Since I&#8217;m a copyright worrywart, I can&#8217;t just take a random online picture and post it on my blog without being anxious that I&#8217;ll get a letter from someone&#8217;s lawyer in the mail suing me for copyright infringement.  No, I&#8217;m not kidding.  I really worry about stupid stuff like that.  So this is me.  At school.  Bradley texted me a charming picture of himself wearing his adorable outfit of the day (he&#8217;s a snazzy dresser) so I tried to return the favor but failed without the full length mirror.  Aren&#8217;t you glad you read all of that?  I&#8217;m all like, &#8220;Are you happy now?!  Here&#8217;s your picture!!!  Call your mother!&#8221;  You know what I mean.  Guilt trip guilt trip guilt trip.<br \/>\n***<br \/>\nOne of my running dates will begin on Monday!  My friend, Rhiann, who just started running using a couch to 5k program, and I are going to start meeting once or twice a month, depending on schedules, to run together.  Truth be told, I&#8217;m a little worried she&#8217;s going to run faster than me and I&#8217;m going to be slagging along behind her all red faced and panting.  She&#8217;s a nice person though so I also think she will be cool about it if I do.  \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n***<br \/>\nMy arms race is slacking.  I haven&#8217;t worked my arms in five days.  Yep.  I was killing it then one missed day turned into two and so on and so forth.  I&#8217;m pretty much writing it here so I&#8217;ll be more accountable.  I want to report that I&#8217;m halfway to Arnold Schwarzenegger status, but I&#8217;m more like Greg from <em>Diary of a Wimpy Kid.<\/em>  If you don&#8217;t know, he&#8217;s a kids&#8217; book character with the muscle tone of a stick figure.  Cuz he is a stick figure.  Read a teacher blog:get kids&#8217; book references.  Ha ha!  So now, as soon as I hit publish I&#8217;m going downstairs to get my Bowflex on!  Cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we ran. Running is becoming that thing again- just an after work habit. Just one more thing in my repertoire. The best thing of late is that I&#8217;m killing my times. Yesterday I had my best ever time on Big Loop (1.4 miles) and today I had my third best time. Woot woot! 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