{"id":238,"date":"2010-05-04T08:22:35","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T12:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/?p=238"},"modified":"2010-05-23T12:30:11","modified_gmt":"2010-05-23T16:30:11","slug":"back-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/2010\/05\/04\/back-in-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Back in Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width='465' height='548' frameborder='0' src='http:\/\/connect.garmin.com:80\/activity\/embed\/32190271'><\/iframe><br \/>\nToday I woke at 5:40am to get ready to do a run.  It was a throwback to 2007 when I was getting up at that time out of necessity to run because of a day job and an evening improv training program I was running for a company.  While three weeks in that lifestyle led to injury out of presumably overtraining on little rest, it was still a time of amazing accomplishment, and this morning recalled that.<\/p>\n<p>66 degrees with approximately 60% humidity made it feel warm but rather &#8220;just right&#8221; for running, and breaking a sweat, and challenging myself.  In fact, I wasn&#8217;t sure if I&#8217;d feel comfortable running Great Hill, but sure enough, I went that way.  Part of the reason was that a speedy girl passed me around mile 2 and was a few steps in front of me; I thought I would eventually catch her but she was good, then she veered off on the 102nd Street Transverse.  I&#8217;m amusingly sexist when I run.<\/p>\n<p>Mounting the hill wasn&#8217;t so bad, but again, another girl passed me on the hill, but I passed her by the top.  Down the hill, a couple passed me but then I passed them.  There were a number of these passings in this run as you can tell, which is generally unusual for me to experience because I&#8217;ll go <em>days<\/em> without being passed in the park.  To that stat, Central Park had a lot of runners this morning in the 6 o&#8217;clock hour.<\/p>\n<p>I felt fairly strong.  I wanted to work on steadying my breathing a bit, as that seems to be the best bet for sustaining my runs.  It seemed to help.  No twinges though I did feel a little tight in the morning, and I was wondering if I would end up with some kind of surprise injury from today&#8217;s run.  Thankfully, no.<\/p>\n<p>I had ArginMax and quercetin just before my run again, but this time I had a spoonful of non-fat yogurt plus a Strawberry-Banana PowerGel.  (While it has fructose in it, I was happy to find out it didn&#8217;t have high fructose corn syrup, which is something I&#8217;ve been generally avoiding in the last month or so.)  Last night I had coconut water with my late dinner; it boasts of potassium and general hydration, and while expensive, I wonder how that may aid me.  No caffeine or diet pills for another day, which is making me feel a bit more, I guess, normal.  That is, my run didn&#8217;t have with it any strange kidney or chest pains accompanying it.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see, Garmin got the map off a little bit.  I ran on the road, not parallel with the road.  I noticed at one time going up a hill, it also Auto Paused, which was peculiar to me because I was moving, not nearly walking or stopping.  I wonder if I set it in a way to trigger Auto Pause then.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, this run felt as if I was back in action.  It felt like a decent run.  While I&#8217;m still on the slower side in running 7:25s, I did do a lap in Central Park fairly comfortably, including Great Hill.  That is, Great Hill didn&#8217;t cut into my capable pace, which I guess is pretty cool.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, I hit the gym for abs, back, and arms.  Just a little bit before I start the rest of my day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I woke at 5:40am to get ready to do a run. It was a throwback to 2007 when I was getting up at that time out of necessity to run because of a day job and an evening improv training program I was running for a company. While three weeks in that lifestyle led &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/2010\/05\/04\/back-in-action\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Back in Action<\/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-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-runs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","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=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}