{"id":399,"date":"2010-07-17T11:14:55","date_gmt":"2010-07-17T15:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/?p=399"},"modified":"2010-07-17T11:14:55","modified_gmt":"2010-07-17T15:14:55","slug":"someone-didnt-tell-me-it-was-opposite-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/2010\/07\/17\/someone-didnt-tell-me-it-was-opposite-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone Didn&#8217;t Tell Me It Was Opposite Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow!  I did the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyrr.org\/races\/2010\/r0717x00.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Central Park Conservancy Run for Central Park 4-Miler<\/a> in Central Park this morning, and I did it fast!  It was going to be a scorcher today but for some reason it didn&#8217;t feel as bad as I was expecting.  It was 82 degrees with 53% humidity at the start.  I say &#8220;Wow!&#8221; because I was not expecting wow.  It was almost like Opposite Day, my results compared to my expectations . . .<\/p>\n<p>I worked until 3am-ish last night\/this morning, and only ended up with about 3.5 hours of sleep.  While I did get pasta last night around dinnertime, I wasn&#8217;t eating that well and I was on my feel for hours at a time the last two days.  I took a short jog to get my number but <em>I was feeling dead<\/em>.  I figured, Maybe I&#8217;ll do this run in 32 minutes (an 8-minute mile) &#8230; I won&#8217;t push myself &#8230; I have nothing to prove here &#8230; this is just to run a marathon qualifying race &#8230;<br \/>\nGarmin Unofficial Results:<br \/>\n<iframe width='465' height='548' frameborder='0' src='http:\/\/connect.garmin.com:80\/activity\/embed\/40720160'><\/iframe><br \/>\nWell, well.  I started off at a decent pace but realized I had just a little bit of speed with me.  I figured it would leave or just taper and it did a bit, but not too much.  In fact, my first two miles according to my Garmin were 6:40 then 6:46, which are quite excellent miles for me right now!  I then ran a 7:09 through the hilliest part of this race, then didn&#8217;t keep track of my 4th mile, which ended up on my Garmin as a 6:33!  (I had no idea I was <em>that<\/em> fast for that mile!)<\/p>\n<p>The official results said I finished in 27:22.  That&#8217;s a 6:50.  My Garmin put me a little faster, but no worries: This is much, much, much faster than I thought I would run today.  To think I would run 8:00s and then I go and run 6:50s!!  And in this weather!!!  With so little sleep!!!!<\/p>\n<p>These 6:50s are a) a sign that I am improving in my running, b) a sign I&#8217;m getting faster, c) signal that I don&#8217;t need to worry so much about missing a couple of runs because of difficult work scheduling, d) make me happy and proud, and e) yea.  I felt my left ankle a bit around the first mile marker but it never gave out.  And the side of my left knee was a little sensitive, but more after I hit the gym for abs, glutes, arms, back, pecs, quads, calves, then abs again.  I&#8217;m going to try to get a few hours of sleep now in order to catch up.  But this is a nice achievement after a hellish couple of days of work.  Woohoo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow! I did the Central Park Conservancy Run for Central Park 4-Miler in Central Park this morning, and I did it fast! It was going to be a scorcher today but for some reason it didn&#8217;t feel as bad as I was expecting. It was 82 degrees with 53% humidity at the start. I say &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/2010\/07\/17\/someone-didnt-tell-me-it-was-opposite-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Someone Didn&#8217;t Tell Me It Was Opposite Day<\/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":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4milers","category-races"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","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=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}