{"id":14785,"date":"2011-12-06T09:02:22","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T13:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=14785"},"modified":"2011-12-06T09:02:22","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T13:02:22","slug":"one-step-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2011\/12\/one-step-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"One step forward"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> It’s been a while since I’ve talked about training. Part of that is unintentional, I’ve had other things I wanted to discuss on the blog or I’ve been\u00a0preoccupied\u00a0on Sundays and didn’t get a post written.<\/p>\n

Part of it was intentional, I don’t really have much to say. It seems like the same old same old lately.<\/p>\n

I want to be running full time again. \u00a0For me, that’s at least four days a week. \u00a0Apparently Mother Nature has other ideas because getting four days of nice weather lately has not happened. \u00a0It’s a good week if I get in two runs.<\/p>\n

Two runs.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is not acceptable yet there’s not much I can do about it, I’m at the mercy of the weather.<\/p>\n

We’ve been having a lot of rain and wind. \u00a0It’s Monday morning as I’m typing this and it’s pouring buckets. I have a little pond that developed in my back yard. \u00a0Any minute now I’m waiting for the ducks to show up and declare it their newest real estate investment.<\/p>\n

Rocky is cranky because he’s not one to be housebound for long. \u00a0Neither am I. \u00a0Both of us would like some sunshine and a dry day.<\/p>\n

Last week I did get to run 5 miles. \u00a0This is my longest mileage yet since dealing with this stinkin’ hip injury. \u00a0The run went well and I even ran it at a decent pace. \u00a0My hip was mega sore afterwards though and just a wee bit sore the next day. \u00a0By the end of the following day it was fine.<\/p>\n

I was highly frustrated at first because I’m so over this. \u00a0OVER. IT. \u00a0Then I remembered that technically I’m supposed to be upping my mileage a half mile at a time. \u00a0I jumped a whole mile in my eagerness to cover more ground. \u00a0Whoops!<\/p>\n

I’ll drop down to 4.5 miles this week and see what happens. \u00a0If it stops raining!<\/p>\n

I also need to keep in mind that I can run four miles without pain. \u00a0This is a huge improvement over earlier this year when I couldn’t even run a mile without my hip hurting afterwards.<\/p>\n

It’s hard not to focus on the struggle, on the frustrations, and on the pain. \u00a0Staying positive is the challenging part.<\/p>\n

Running is such a mental game.<\/p>\n

PS: It’s now Tuesday morning and the rain has let up but it’s very windy outside. Le sigh.<\/p>\n

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It’s been a while since I’ve talked about training. Part of that is unintentional, I’ve had other things I wanted to discuss on the blog or I’ve been\u00a0preoccupied\u00a0on Sundays and didn’t get a post written. Part of it was intentional, I don’t really have much to say. It seems like the same old same old […]<\/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":[58,52],"tags":[53],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-3Qt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14785"}],"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=14785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}