{"id":418,"date":"2010-07-28T21:24:06","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T01:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/?p=418"},"modified":"2010-07-28T21:24:06","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T01:24:06","slug":"takin-it-slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/2010\/07\/28\/takin-it-slow\/","title":{"rendered":"Takin&#8217; It Slow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got back to running today.  Although I did the Queens Half-Marathon on Saturday, that was the last time I ran, and this 3-day hiatus from running felt so long that I felt I was starting over.  Why such a hiatus?  Yet another brutal acting schedule.  Sunday I rested, Monday wasn&#8217;t so bad but I couldn&#8217;t get in a run, then Tuesday I worked 15 hours, on few calories because I skipped lunch to go to an audition plus I have inflammation in my jaw that limiting my ability to open my mouth (so I was zonked!), then I could only get 4 hours of sleep before today&#8217;s call.  Fortunately, though, I was wrapped early, made up my lack of sleep in the afternoon, then got out for a &#8220;take it easy&#8221; 8.12 miles.<br \/>\n<iframe width='465' height='548' frameborder='0' src='http:\/\/connect.garmin.com:80\/activity\/embed\/42239485'><\/iframe><br \/>\nMy left calf felt a bit better today.  It hasn&#8217;t hurt much today, though after my run, when I stretched it, I felt it was still a bit sore.  My ankles were (probably) a bit still\/sensitive toward the beginning of this run but they never made me buckle.<\/p>\n<p>The heat was moderate.  The temperature was 86 with about 50% humidity, which equated to being and feeling warm but not excrutiatingly so.  In fact, it felt a little cooler than other days.  Despite the relative coolness, I didn&#8217;t push myself.  I realized during my run that I&#8217;ve basically been burned out because my life has been very demanding&#8211;much more demanding than last year.  I&#8217;ve deprogrammed running on days I should be running, and I&#8217;ve also been left without time, quick turnarounds, lack of ability to rest, and brutal heat.  It&#8217;s a tough year!<\/p>\n<p>I also thought that maybe I&#8217;ve been playing it a bit too easy.  I&#8217;ve been guarding against any kind of injury this year, though I thought maybe I could &#8220;risk injury&#8221; a bit more.  It&#8217;s a change of thinking that may push me a bit more.  I think I&#8217;m getting behind in my training, or really can if I don&#8217;t start stepping up as I move into August.  Remember: I want to break 5 minutes in the 5th Avenue Mile in September, so I had best step something up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got back to running today. Although I did the Queens Half-Marathon on Saturday, that was the last time I ran, and this 3-day hiatus from running felt so long that I felt I was starting over. Why such a hiatus? Yet another brutal acting schedule. Sunday I rested, Monday wasn&#8217;t so bad but I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/2010\/07\/28\/takin-it-slow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Takin&#8217; It Slow<\/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-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-runs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","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=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}