{"id":9578,"date":"2013-05-25T22:23:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-25T22:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/?p=9578"},"modified":"2013-05-25T22:43:45","modified_gmt":"2013-05-25T22:43:45","slug":"running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/?p=9578","title":{"rendered":"Running"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t quite understand what is happening with my body right now.  I&#8217;m not pregnant (yes, I am certain, it is impossible thanks to my OB), but I&#8217;m days &#8216;late&#8217; at this point and my body is acting like I&#8217;m in weightloss warrior week, completely skipping the misery of PMS and the aftermath.  I&#8217;m not complaining.  I have been teary- the end of the school year is particularly emotional this year as I truly love, adore and will miss my students terribly.  But otherwise&#8230;  Nada.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m embracing it.  When I started shedding again this week I started dieting a little better, but I didn&#8217;t amp up the workouts or anything.  Each day as I step on the scale I&#8217;m down a pound.  Today the scale couldn&#8217;t decide if I was 235 or 234.8.  Doesn&#8217;t really matter.  It&#8217;s down, that is all I really care about.  So I think next week I&#8217;ll amp it up a little more and push some more mileage.  See if I can burn some more.  Coz know what?  I am ten pounds away from my 40 before 40!  225 is the magic number.  It looks like I&#8217;m going to make it!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130525-152950.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130525-152950.jpg\" alt=\"20130525-152950.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nToday we hit the track and I ended up running 4.5.  I decided to make sure to do a few things to insure my success:<br \/>\n1.  I let Bradley know that at the track I really need to keep my focus.  One of the ways to do that is keep music or a podcast playing in my ear so I&#8217;m nicely distracted instead of dreading each step or turn of the track.<br \/>\n2.  I decided not to count laps.  I started my Lovecast (love Dan Savage) and decided I would run until it ended and that would be my mileage.  I ended up running a mile more than I planned!<br \/>\n3.  I decided to let the idea of &#8216;training&#8217; go and instead just focused on going.  I have a bad habit of apologizing for my speed, as if a 235 pound woman is going to be running consistent nine minute miles.  I had a friend tell me what is important is that I&#8217;m DOING IT.  It doesn&#8217;t matter how slow.  And 10.5-11.5 minute miles are nothing to be ashamed of.<br \/>\n***<br \/>\nMiles ran: 11.5<br \/>\nGoal: 10<br \/>\nAbs: once!<br \/>\nGoal:3-4 (but this was a soft goal this week)<br \/>\n***<br \/>\nNext week:<br \/>\nGoal: 12 miles<br \/>\nAbs: 3-4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t quite understand what is happening with my body right now. I&#8217;m not pregnant (yes, I am certain, it is impossible thanks to my OB), but I&#8217;m days &#8216;late&#8217; at this point and my body is acting like I&#8217;m in weightloss warrior week, completely skipping the misery of PMS and the aftermath. I&#8217;m not &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/?p=9578\">[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":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-littlejohnt","4":"post-9578","6":"format-standard","7":"category-diary"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9578","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=9578"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9690,"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9578\/revisions\/9690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}