{"id":745,"date":"2013-07-25T14:48:19","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T21:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/?p=745"},"modified":"2013-07-25T17:41:32","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T00:41:32","slug":"riding-the-pain-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/riding-the-pain-train\/","title":{"rendered":"Riding the Pain Train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last two days (since my first &#8220;run&#8221; after a 2-month hiatus) have been painful. I am genuinely surprised how much I lost by not running and only biking the last 2 months. I thought I would be a little slower than normal, but I didn&#8217;t anticipate having so much pain after such a slow outing. I was lucky enough to get a couple leg rubs over those two days and even though I wasn&#8217;t feeling 100% today, I felt good enough to go back out there and really hurt myself.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of trying to never walk during my run, I decided I should start trying to run faster&#8230; even if it kills me and I have to walk a bit. I&#8217;ll still make sure I go the full distance, but I need to get some faster segments in there. With that in mind, I started off strong. I hit the light across Carmel Country green and I figured I would get a good time on that first mile. I did. I even set a PR for the hill climb (which is only possible when you hit the light green). But then I was dead tired. I hit the light to cross Del Mar Heights red, which gave me a good 30 seconds to catch my breath. I guess that wasn&#8217;t enough, because I still walked a bit on that next mile.<\/p>\n<p>I walked a couple times on the way back, but for the most part I managed to keep running (except for the big hill climb). All in all it turned out to be a pretty good run. I am definitely hurting, but I think this is the right way to improve my speed overall.<\/p>\n<p><iframe height='405' width='590' frameborder='0' allowtransparency='true' scrolling='no' src='https:\/\/app.strava.com\/activities\/69803895\/embed\/525082231456006bc97f3b5ddf392f34ca808d0d'><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last two days (since my first &#8220;run&#8221; after a 2-month hiatus) have been painful. I am genuinely surprised how much I lost by not running and only biking the last 2 months. I thought I would be a little &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/riding-the-pain-train\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":746,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions\/746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}