{"id":197,"date":"2010-04-19T10:32:25","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T14:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/?p=197"},"modified":"2010-05-23T12:34:38","modified_gmt":"2010-05-23T16:34:38","slug":"pre-training-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/2010\/04\/19\/pre-training-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Training Begins&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width='465' height='548' frameborder='0' src='http:\/\/connect.garmin.com:80\/activity\/embed\/30565706'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Alright.  So after much consideration and mental preparation, I feel a little bit shy in saying that pre-training for the NYC Marathon for me has now begun.<\/p>\n<p>In keeping with the theme of pre-training, while I headed out to do 6.3 miles today in Central Park, I decided about 2 miles in only to do 5.4.  That is, I took the 102nd St. Transverse and avoided doing Great Hill.<\/p>\n<p>The reasoning was clear: In this delicate time as I balance training with a chaotic and unpredictable schedule, along with other responsibilities, it is important to guard against burnout.  For me, that generally means avoiding pushing myself prematurely.  &#8220;Prematurely&#8221; is really any kind of training I haven&#8217;t developed into.  Since I&#8217;m just starting training, I have developed into anything, so any kind of zealous desires to do amazing running work is a bad idea for me right now.<\/p>\n<p>It was 51 degrees in clear, beautiful weather.  I had my Garmin for the second time, and the box above links to intimate details of my run today.  Of note, my pace of 5.4 miles was 7:49.  That is a bit better than running with Elizabeth, though it&#8217;s generally in the zone of what I was accomplishing with her.  While I&#8217;m quite a bit off of my marathon pace, there&#8217;s little reason for me to believe that this time is not going to melt pretty quickly.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Monday and it&#8217;s hard to say what this week will spell.  Last night I started eyeing races for training as well as for NYC Marathon qualification for next year.  And the Philly Marathon is pretty much a given in my headl; in order to get a really cheap entry fee, I need to enter before month&#8217;s end.  I&#8217;m still gonna hold off entering &#8230; at least at this very second &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and one last thing: With the Garmin now in my possession, how I formatted this blog needs to change a bit.  So hopefully I can get around to that soon.  Nothing too big: Mostly just the header area of each blog post needs to change because temperature is not <em>that<\/em> important! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I lied!  One other last thing!  I hit the gym to do some basic abs, back, and arms machines.  Very light, but nice to be back there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alright. So after much consideration and mental preparation, I feel a little bit shy in saying that pre-training for the NYC Marathon for me has now begun. In keeping with the theme of pre-training, while I headed out to do 6.3 miles today in Central Park, I decided about 2 miles in only to do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/2010\/04\/19\/pre-training-begins\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pre-Training Begins&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-runs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}