{"id":199,"date":"2015-08-25T00:23:30","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T00:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/?p=199"},"modified":"2015-08-25T00:23:30","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T00:23:30","slug":"a-challenging-but-good-weekend-8-21-8-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/25\/a-challenging-but-good-weekend-8-21-8-23\/","title":{"rendered":"A challenging, but good weekend &#8211; 8.21 &#8211; 8.23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ba.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ba-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"ba\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-85\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ba-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ba-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ba.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With about a week to the half marathon, I knew we&#8217;d be stepping it up.  This is a summary of the weekend &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Friday &#8211; 6 mile run through the forest, followed by some really painful stretching.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday &#8211; Flag football in the morning followed by a bike session in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday &#8211; 10 mile run followed by 40 min in the pool.  At about 8.5 miles, my legs started to cramp badly.  We still chipped away (less than the 3\/1 normal interval), but that last 1.5mi was painful.  <\/p>\n<p>While Sunday was the most draining of the weekend, and I hit a wall, that wall keeps moving.  A year ago, 1 was struggling at 3mi &#8211; now it&#8217;s 8.5.  And other things are getting easier\/better as well.  Onward and upward&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With about a week to the half marathon, I knew we&#8217;d be stepping it up. This is a summary of the weekend &#8212; Friday &#8211; 6 mile run through the forest, followed by some really painful stretching. Saturday &#8211; Flag football in the morning followed by a bike session in the afternoon. Sunday &#8211; 10 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/25\/a-challenging-but-good-weekend-8-21-8-23\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A challenging, but good weekend &#8211; 8.21 &#8211; 8.23<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[7,26,6],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-james","category-terri","tag-james-gilliard","tag-running","tag-terri-hayes"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}