{"id":4721,"date":"2011-05-30T11:59:05","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T11:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=4721"},"modified":"2011-05-30T11:59:05","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T11:59:05","slug":"my-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=4721","title":{"rendered":"My take."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rather than go through a minute by minute replay (which would take you <strong>70<\/strong> minutes to read) I thought I&#8217;d share some of the awesomeness from Saturday. \u00a0In bullets:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10K is always longer than I think it is. \u00a0When I rounded the bend and saw that I&#8217;d only passed the 1K mark I almost stopped. \u00a0I was already tired. \u00a0But <strong>not<\/strong> stopping was so much more excellent.<\/li>\n<li>The crowds cheering us on are Ah. May. Zing. \u00a0Seriously. \u00a0At points where I was most tired the crowd would start shouting and clapping and giving high fives and I was able to keep going. \u00a0So, whether you were cheering for me from afar (your emails, messages and tweets, btw) or standing on the side of the road giving me, a complete stranger, the will to carry on, thank you. \u00a0You are awesome.<\/li>\n<li>The water stations are too few and far between. \u00a0But when you get there, it&#8217;s like heaven.<\/li>\n<li>I ran a full 7K without slowing down to a walk. \u00a0That may be my record.<\/li>\n<li>When I did slow down, my legs felt like jelly and I briefly thought they might collapse under my weight. \u00a0Note to self: \u00a0Slowing down to a walk after 7K is dumb.<\/li>\n<li>I can&#8217;t believe that people run full marathons. \u00a0They are superheroes. \u00a0And also crazy.<\/li>\n<li>A good playlist can make a world of difference. \u00a0Mine was only so so. \u00a0 There we a couple of gems on there though, so next time I&#8217;ll be prepared.<\/li>\n<li>I set a goal for myself in January. \u00a0I followed through. \u00a0It is literally the best feeling in the whole world.<\/li>\n<li>The day after my whole body hurt. \u00a0Every muscle that can throb is still throbbing. \u00a0But on the HUGE upside, my knees aren&#8217;t in pain. \u00a0Did you hear what I said?? \u00a0MY KNEES DON&#8217;T HURT!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure it&#8217;ll be anytime soon, but I will run 10K again. \u00a0Maybe next time with a buddy. \u00a0Anyone interested?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rather than go through a minute by minute replay (which would take you 70 minutes to read) I thought I&#8217;d share some of the awesomeness from Saturday. \u00a0In bullets: 10K is always longer than I think it is. \u00a0When I rounded the bend and saw that I&#8217;d only passed the 1K mark I almost stopped. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[5,46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4721"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4721"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4730,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4721\/revisions\/4730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}