{"id":329,"date":"2010-06-02T22:39:14","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T02:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/?p=329"},"modified":"2010-06-02T22:39:14","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T02:39:14","slug":"swarms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/2010\/06\/02\/swarms\/","title":{"rendered":"Swarms!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, for the first time ever, while running in Central Park, I hit not one, not two, not three, not even four, but FIVE swarms of insects!  I have never even encountered <em>one<\/em> swarm of insects but tonight must have been something special on the Upper East Side around E. 90th St.  The bugs were out, and I ran through them, and I had to bat my way through their thickness.<br \/>\n<iframe width='465' height='548' frameborder='0' src='http:\/\/connect.garmin.com:80\/activity\/embed\/35508150'><\/iframe><br \/>\nIt was a somewhat cool, somewhat humid, 73-degree run today.  Actually, it was 80% humidity but didn&#8217;t feel that bad.  Apart from the five swarms, my right lower leg was of interest, and it was strong to begin with.  It didn&#8217;t hurt in the beginning of today&#8217;s run as much as it did at the beginning of yesterday&#8217;s run, but inside mile 4 (or at some point after Great Hill), my leg started to hurt.  I even got almost to the point of limping on it a bit, it felt so painful.  It was more like a tired pain rather than a sharp pain.<\/p>\n<p>I used various mental tricks to distract my attention from it and it pretty much worked.  However, I couldn&#8217;t pull off a super-sprint at the end of this run.  I did this run of 6.27 miles (basically a loop of Central Park) in just under 50 minutes, which is pretty paltry for me.  I wonder if it&#8217;s the humidity partly.  But mostly, it was the pain of my right lower leg.<\/p>\n<p>It was nice to be out in the night, apart from the bugs.  I felt faster than 7:51 pace suggests.  At least I got in these miles after a day of work&#8211;which, by the way, I thought would last until midnight.<\/p>\n<p>This morning I got in some stuff at the gym: abs, arms, pecs, quads, calves, and thighs.  For that, I took Nitric Oxide Overdrive and I felt my heart pumping.  So I thought, Could the ArginMax have made it feel as if I was having a heart attack in yesterday&#8217;s run?  Because of that question, I skipped ArginMax today.  I also didn&#8217;t have quercetin, but I did have a PowerGel.  Plus, I had a light dinner before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, for the first time ever, while running in Central Park, I hit not one, not two, not three, not even four, but FIVE swarms of insects! I have never even encountered one swarm of insects but tonight must have been something special on the Upper East Side around E. 90th St. The bugs were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/2010\/06\/02\/swarms\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Swarms!<\/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-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-runs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","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=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions\/330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}