{"id":812,"date":"2013-11-04T14:04:31","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T22:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/?p=812"},"modified":"2013-11-04T15:04:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T23:04:33","slug":"information-booth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/information-booth\/","title":{"rendered":"Information Booth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have never had someone stop me while running (or biking) to ask for directions until today&#8230; and it happened twice! The first time I was actually stopped, waiting to cross Del Mar Heights Road where it joins Carmel Valley Road, so I didn&#8217;t really think much about it. I did wind up missing the light and waiting through another cycle, but I wasn&#8217;t sad about getting a bit of extra rest at that juncture. I managed to keep my rhythm and run all the way through Palacio Del Mar and start heading up the big hill home when a guy in a truck cut across three empty lanes to pull up right in front of me and ask how to get to Escondido. He didn&#8217;t have a lot of other options, so I was nice and told him how easy it was to get there.<\/p>\n<p>I was a little upset that I had come to a complete stop to talk to this guy. I was convinced it had messed me up for running that last hill, so I pushed even harder. Now, as I look back on it, I wonder if I ended up going faster up that last hill precisely because I stopped and gave that guy directions. We&#8217;ll never know, but I&#8217;m always going to help someone out if at all possible.<\/p>\n<p>I changed my route up a bit after looking back through my logs of my faster runs last spring. When I was running faster I was starting off running downhill. It added more uphill to my runs, but I had a theory that starting off going fast without having to push hard would get me into a good rhythm. I wasn&#8217;t wrong. I cruised through almost the whole first mile (which has 150 feet of climbing). I did run out of air right at the end and walk a bit to catch my breath, but I didn&#8217;t walk long. I pushed hard through mile 2 and hit 6:00\/mi going down the steep hill through Lansdale, but that really killed me mentally and I walked a little bit more to catch my breath again. I got right back to it and ran almost the whole way home (minus the stoplight and the guy trying to find Escondido). I did walk a couple times on that last big hill, but never for very long.<\/p>\n<p>I finished pretty strong and really felt great.<\/p>\n<p><iframe height='405' width='590' frameborder='0' allowtransparency='true' scrolling='no' src='https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/93242114\/embed\/6744f620e2d4050195ca95622b717d4daf8dfc52'><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have never had someone stop me while running (or biking) to ask for directions until today&#8230; and it happened twice! The first time I was actually stopped, waiting to cross Del Mar Heights Road where it joins Carmel Valley &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/information-booth\/\">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-812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812","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=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":813,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions\/813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}