{"id":16555,"date":"2014-04-30T20:10:41","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T03:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/?p=16555"},"modified":"2014-04-30T20:13:42","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T03:13:42","slug":"staying-the-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/?p=16555","title":{"rendered":"Staying the Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140430-200912.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140430-200912.jpg\" alt=\"20140430-200912.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I committed to running this half marathon thing, I was all enthusiasm, all belief, all excited because I just knew I could!  I still know I can, but oh my goodness! I&#8217;m tired.  Sooooo tired.  But I&#8217;m sticking with it.  Today was my third run for the week (My weeks go Sunday-Saturday) and I even followed through with my weight training last night.  I&#8217;m staying the course, and I&#8217;m pretty proud.  Tomorrow I&#8217;ll rest, and my long run will be Saturday, after the heat wave has left the lovely PNW.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s run was not easy.  I actually ran all three miles with times in the upper 11&#8217;s.  I&#8217;m not worried about time, but that is slow, even for me!  At one point, during the last quarter mile, I started freaking out and had to try not to cry.  I just got so tired.  So hot.  So sweaty.  So panicky&#8230;  Bradley had to talk me down from that ledge, reminding me that I went from running 6 miles a week to running 12 miles in the last five days, that today was 80 degrees- the first authentically warm day of the year, and most importantly, that I can still do this.  I did.  I finished strong, or at least finished.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the run we needed to go pick up our kids from a friend&#8217;s house so we walked on over, still in our sweaty running clothes.  Upon our arrival, Jude&#8217;s buddy let us know that we could just hang out for a while if we wanted- we didn&#8217;t need to rush off (and take our kids with us)!  Then he disappeared into the house and came back with a cheese stick and a bottle of water- which he poured into the nearest cup, possibly used.  It was, hands down, one of the sweetest things a child has ever done for me.  I slugged that water down and ate my cheese stick.  It was the perfect thing!  <\/p>\n<p>g<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I committed to running this half marathon thing, I was all enthusiasm, all belief, all excited because I just knew I could! I still know I can, but oh my goodness! I&#8217;m tired. Sooooo tired. But I&#8217;m sticking with it. Today was my third run for the week (My weeks go Sunday-Saturday) and I &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/?p=16555\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","post","publish","author-littlejohnt","post-16555","format-standard","category-diary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16555"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16558,"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16555\/revisions\/16558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}