{"id":205,"date":"2010-04-24T14:23:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T18:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/?p=205"},"modified":"2010-05-23T12:33:50","modified_gmt":"2010-05-23T16:33:50","slug":"bright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/2010\/04\/24\/bright\/","title":{"rendered":"Bright!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width='465' height='548' frameborder='0' src='http:\/\/connect.garmin.com:80\/activity\/embed\/31093435'><\/iframe><br \/>\nWow is for weather!  Nary a cloud invaded this bright day with a touch of warm and plenty of challenge!  This was my first run since Monday, the ceremonial beginning of marathon pre-training, and I had thought I&#8217;d run much more this week than I did.  This was mostly because of an extraordinary work week which involved 2 pre-6am calltimes, both of which invoked cab fare because of bad subway service, and both of which went for a ton of hours.  I had thought yesterday I&#8217;d squeeze in a run before my 2:30pm calltime but I realized I&#8217;d misjudged when I should run &#8212; casting calls start arriving around a particular time, and if I want to book work, I had best be near my phone.  I quickly decided not to run Friday morning so that I didn&#8217;t miss a casting call, but one never came so it was almost all for naught.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s more description of the past week than description of today.  Today&#8217;s run was rougher than I&#8217;d hoped, but faster than I&#8217;d expected.  For half the run I was trumped by a pretty speedy girl (whose body belied some nice training), which was humbling and made me a little competitive but not so competitive that I&#8217;d be able to sustain dominance over her.  For most of the first half of my run, I was about 70 feet behind her though we traded the lead in the first mile.  My &#8220;laps&#8221; (miles) were a lot faster on the whole: 7:35s, which is quite an improvement over the 7:49s and 8:00s I did in the last week.  No real understanding why the improved speed, since I didn&#8217;t really have the comfort to battle Great Hill, or set out to do 8.273 as I&#8217;d originally intended.  While I&#8217;m near the end of my first bottle of Redline Ultra Hardcore, I didn&#8217;t use it today, nor do I expect to use it pre-run anymore for fear of yakking.<\/p>\n<p>I was a little dehydrated for this run, though I&#8217;m trying to get more water into my system during the week.  It&#8217;s a tough balance: I want to drink more water, but being on set, you don&#8217;t know how accessible the bathrooms are given the somewhat unpredictable nature of filming.  (For a background into what I do, look at <a href=\"http:\/\/standincentral.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stand-In Central<\/a>, a website I created about standing in on TV and film.)  That tends to mean I avoid drinking water much.<\/p>\n<p>After the run I headed to the gym to do abs, arms, and a little bit of calves.  Nothing too tough or impressive, but that&#8217;s the nature of my pre-training right now anyway.  I don&#8217;t want to get overzealous or burn myself out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow is for weather! Nary a cloud invaded this bright day with a touch of warm and plenty of challenge! This was my first run since Monday, the ceremonial beginning of marathon pre-training, and I had thought I&#8217;d run much more this week than I did. This was mostly because of an extraordinary work week &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/2010\/04\/24\/bright\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bright!<\/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-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-runs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","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=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}