{"id":749,"date":"2013-07-31T14:14:15","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T21:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/?p=749"},"modified":"2013-07-31T15:35:09","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T22:35:09","slug":"stepping-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/stepping-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Stepping Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My plan to run hard at first until I can&#8217;t, then walk a bit until I can run again seems to be paying off. I still have a long way to go, but I can tell that I&#8217;m pushing my legs hard and that&#8217;s exactly what I wanted to do. When I stop running and let myself walk, it seems like it&#8217;s my legs and not my lungs that are giving out. I think that&#8217;s where I want to be. Now if I could just get faster.<\/p>\n<p>I did my traditional 10k out-and-back route today. I ran hard along Townsgate, but hit a red light at Carmel Country Road. I hate red lights. It looks like Strava is automatically removing my stops from my runs now. I&#8217;m not sure I like that, but it is what it is. I don&#8217;t see any of the red lights that I hit. I think that&#8217;s why they&#8217;re claiming that I got a new 10k PR. It&#8217;s not that I like one system over the other, I just want an even playing field to measure my results over time&#8230; so I really hope they stop messing with their algorithms and just let us run!<\/p>\n<p>I hit another red light at the top of Del Mar Heights Road, but then I had no excuses (other than my weak legs) until after the 5k turn-around point. I immediately hit another red light trying to cross at the bottom of Del Mar Heights Road, but then I had mostly smooth sailing all the way back to Carmel Country Road. I always hit that thing red and it&#8217;s really annoying.<\/p>\n<p><iframe height='405' width='590' frameborder='0' allowtransparency='true' scrolling='no' src='https:\/\/app.strava.com\/activities\/71243382\/embed\/0969f0af83b29bae74814b609c40a4c4bcedca0a'><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My plan to run hard at first until I can&#8217;t, then walk a bit until I can run again seems to be paying off. I still have a long way to go, but I can tell that I&#8217;m pushing my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/stepping-up\/\">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-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","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=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":750,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions\/750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}