{"id":403,"date":"2010-07-22T09:04:58","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T13:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/?p=403"},"modified":"2010-07-22T09:04:58","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T13:04:58","slug":"cooler-faster-stronger-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/2010\/07\/22\/cooler-faster-stronger-early\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooler, Faster, Stronger, Early!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a punishing week this week.  I started off this week with a night shoot into morning with me on my feet most of the night, then followed with a gig that next day after 4 hours of sleep, then a gig with an early calltime and another day mostly on my feet, but in the heat, humidity, and business suits.  I even had an audition then a callback in the only potential time zones of availability, just ruining my opportunities for training runs. With a somewhat later calltime, this morning I eked out a run before work, and although I have been unable to run this week in light of my work schedule, I went really fast!  I managed 7:12s, a considerable improvement in my time with pretty even splits.  Here are the deets:<br \/>\n<iframe width='465' height='548' frameborder='0' src='http:\/\/connect.garmin.com:80\/activity\/embed\/41354423'><\/iframe><br \/>\nIt helped that it felt considerably cooler today.  The temperature was 74 and humidity was negligible (about 60%) with a cool wind in the morning sunshine.  No one passed me today and I blazed through the park in 45:19, over a minute faster than my fastest time over this distance this year (set a month ago).  I had set out to do 8+ miles but the urgency of going to the bathroom made me reconsider.<\/p>\n<p>As for pains, my left ankle got that stabbing feeling in the very beginning of my run, and interestingly enough, it was when I was fiddling with my mp3 player.  This is leading me to believe that when I get distracted when running, I improve my chances of experiencing that pain, possibly because my balance changes and the forces redistribute on that ankle, triggering the problem.  And my left calf is a big pain.  It wasn&#8217;t a pain when running, but it has been extremely tight since the last run.  It&#8217;s as if I ripped some muscle and it&#8217;s healed and now I&#8217;m tighter.  I seem to have more flexibility with it but it&#8217;s still painful to do a calf stretch on that leg.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, that&#8217;s it!  I&#8217;m hoping to score a pasta dinner tonight and maybe tomorrow night before an upcoming half-marathon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a punishing week this week. I started off this week with a night shoot into morning with me on my feet most of the night, then followed with a gig that next day after 4 hours of sleep, then a gig with an early calltime and another day mostly on my feet, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/2010\/07\/22\/cooler-faster-stronger-early\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cooler, Faster, Stronger, Early!<\/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-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-runs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","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=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions\/404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}