{"id":794,"date":"2013-10-21T13:39:28","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T20:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/?p=794"},"modified":"2013-10-21T16:41:10","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T23:41:10","slug":"running-on-blisters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/running-on-blisters\/","title":{"rendered":"Running on Blisters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We walked around the San Diego Library and then several miles through Seaport Village and then out along the San Diego Bay past the convention center and a few of the big hotels with Charmaine&#8217;s parents, who are visiting from out of town. I didn&#8217;t plan well and brought a &#8220;change of clothes&#8221; but not a change of shoes. My change of clothes included shorts, but not flip-flops. I was stuck wearing my loafers. I went without my dress socks, so I wouldn&#8217;t completely embarrass everyone, though I&#8217;m not sure how successful I was. Anyway, that&#8217;s not the right set of equipment for walking miles and miles. I wound up with several good blisters on my feet. Ouch.<\/p>\n<p>But that didn&#8217;t stop me from getting out there today. I haven&#8217;t had anything close to a blister in my running shoes in what seems like forever. Even when I&#8217;ve gone 10+ miles, my feet have been perfectly fine afterwards. So I figured I would be fine running on my blisters. I was right. I don&#8217;t think they bothered me too much. I may have compensated and changed my form a bit, but mostly I didn&#8217;t think about them at all.<\/p>\n<p>It was a nice temperature for running today. It was foggy last night and most of the morning, so it was still fairly cool when I headed out. I still found myself struggling though. I want to blame my lack of energy on the walking we did yesterday, but I&#8217;m not really sure what my problem was. My left ankle was really tight and at one point I came to a complete stop at a lamp post and stretched it out. I felt so much better after that, and I was able to actually get a few miles of running done.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I still died at the end and walked up the big hill. It&#8217;s really disappointing that I can&#8217;t stay running for my whole run anymore. I seem to remember that I could keep it together back in the day. Maybe I never did. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll be looking it up to check&#8230; I&#8217;d rather just figure it out right now and run all the way back home. At some point I need to stop being happy with just finishing the distance and actually start to improve. Maybe Wednesday?<\/p>\n<p><iframe height='405' width='590' frameborder='0' allowtransparency='true' scrolling='no' src='https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/90506421\/embed\/cb1f73152bf34b144f04ff21fbca5a67ce4b7e64'><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We walked around the San Diego Library and then several miles through Seaport Village and then out along the San Diego Bay past the convention center and a few of the big hotels with Charmaine&#8217;s parents, who are visiting from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/running-on-blisters\/\">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-794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794","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=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":796,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions\/796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}