{"id":13296,"date":"2011-03-20T11:28:43","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T15:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=13296"},"modified":"2011-03-20T11:28:43","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T15:28:43","slug":"running-reflections-winter-2010-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2011\/03\/running-reflections-winter-2010-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Running Reflections: Winter 2010-2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This winter running was definitely a little rough going for me, both mentally and in dealing with the elements.<\/p>\n

I was lucky enough to be named a YakTrax Winter Athlete<\/a> and I was so excited about that! Plus I thought it would definitely be some motivation to get me out the door since I was acting as my own worst enemy.<\/p>\n

Then don’t you know that Columbus didn’t see much snow this year.<\/p>\n

Oh it snowed, don’t misunderstand me. But the snow didn’t really stick around leaving the streets and sidewalks clear.\u00a0 That meant that I couldn’t use the YakTrax.<\/p>\n

I started feeling like a big YakTrax fraud! I had talked up Columbus’s nasty winter weather and here we are with no snow!<\/p>\n

We had ice and lots of it.\u00a0 Super slick super smooth ice which also happened to be very thin.\u00a0 Unfortunately YakTrax don’t really work on that kind of ice.\u00a0 Again I could’t use them.<\/p>\n

Ahhh!<\/p>\n

I was stuck inside a lot this winter because of the ice and other general gross weather that was going on at the time I wanted to run.\u00a0 I was feeling very blah about the whole situation.<\/p>\n

Mentally I was pretty unmotivated to run. I’m not sure why but wow I was really down about it.\u00a0 I never felt like running and then I would only go out for short distances.\u00a0 I just didn’t have the umph.<\/p>\n

I ran<\/a> a few<\/a> races<\/a> during the last half of the year and had a blast with those.<\/p>\n

In January, I ran my first race of the season<\/a> and there was snow so I got to use my YakTrax which made me very happy.\u00a0 I started school<\/a> that same month and was hit with a huge schedule change.<\/p>\n

School takes a lot of time and I found that I had to change up my running schedule and I realized that I had to be more flexible with my running.\u00a0 I also realized that training for a spring half had to get pushed aside.\u00a0 School is stressful and I need my running to not be stressful and be a quiet time without much thought.<\/p>\n

My running mojo is starting to come back now that the weather is turning towards spring. However the weather is also making it difficult with lots of rain and wind.<\/p>\n

Maybe that’s the point? Set me up so much to be ready to run that by the summer I won’t be able to stay inside!<\/p>\n

How was the winter for you this year? Were you able to get out and still exercise or did winter get to you a bit too?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This winter running was definitely a little rough going for me, both mentally and in dealing with the elements. I was lucky enough to be named a YakTrax Winter Athlete and I was so excited about that! Plus I thought it would definitely be some motivation to get me out the door since I was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[53],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-3ss","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}