{"id":792,"date":"2013-10-18T13:31:43","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T20:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/?p=792"},"modified":"2013-10-21T16:28:29","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T23:28:29","slug":"rough-start-rougher-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/rough-start-rougher-finish\/","title":{"rendered":"Rough Start, Rougher Finish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was another hot day out there today. It wasn&#8217;t as extreme as Wednesday, but it was still plenty warm. I ran out of water somewhere between mile 4 and mile 5, but didn&#8217;t notice until right when I needed it most&#8230; and then I walked the rest of the way home.<\/p>\n<p>I had a bit of a rough start. I ran about half a mile, then walked about half a mile. Then I got into a decent rhythm and ran almost all the way to the end of mile 5, which was great. It wasn&#8217;t fast, but it felt pretty good. Then I realized I was completely out of water and I really needed some. I was even starting to see mirages of drinking fountains as I pushed through to the end of mile 5. It was heart breaking to find out I had nothing left.<\/p>\n<p>I probably wouldn&#8217;t have been able to run up that hill at the end anyway, my pace had been falling apart through miles 4 and 5, but we&#8217;ll never know. I did try to jog a few times during that last mile, but it never stuck. I wasn&#8217;t too disappointed with the outcome, and I wasn&#8217;t feeling sore anymore. Maybe on Monday I&#8217;ll actually be able to run again?<\/p>\n<p><iframe height='405' width='590' frameborder='0' allowtransparency='true' scrolling='no' src='https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/89844828\/embed\/95da66ec994fa8dbfb58f7845c41757c4eff526e'><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was another hot day out there today. It wasn&#8217;t as extreme as Wednesday, but it was still plenty warm. I ran out of water somewhere between mile 4 and mile 5, but didn&#8217;t notice until right when I needed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/rough-start-rougher-finish\/\">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-792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792","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=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":793,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions\/793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}