{"id":441,"date":"2016-10-30T05:01:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T05:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/?p=441"},"modified":"2016-10-30T05:01:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T05:01:46","slug":"lesson-learned-finally-102316","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/30\/lesson-learned-finally-102316\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson Learned… Finally? – 10\/23\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"monster-dash-half\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I have a tendency to try and do too much. Most of the time it works out well; this is an example of where it didn’t. And the final swift kick that got me to refocus.<\/p>\n

When I did my 2016 schedule, I had it bookended by half marathons. With everything going on in my personal, professional and athletic lives, I honestly forgot about the October Half until one of my coaches mentioned it to me. But since it was on the plan and it was only August, I thought I was okay. <\/p>\n

Fast forward to mid-October — I hadn’t gotten in enough long runs, and overall run numbers weren’t where they should have been. I could give you a long list of excuses, but I think the only valid ones would be the two days that it was raining sideways most of the day. Long story short, I wasn’t where I should have been. But I still felt a lot better than I did going into the January one because of all the miles I had put in during 2016.<\/p>\n

On race day, the first few miles went well. I was even able to keep going beyond the normal run\/walk intervals and felt great. Then between miles 4 and 5, the bottom of my feet started hurting real bad. I was able to work it out the first time, but the second it just got too bad to run. Doug pointed out that while I was feeling it in my foot, it could probably be higher up. He was right, and found a HUGE knot in my right calf. He tried to work it out, but couldn’t (and that was some of the most painful stuff). <\/p>\n

So yet another Half where things didn’t go as planned. We did complete the course walking, and finished with a respectable full marathon time. \ud83d\ude42 After these issues, I will be focusing on 5Ks and building from there once I’ve got a consistent pace (about 33-34min). <\/p>\n

A huge thanks to Lee and Doug for guiding me and for sticking it out with me. And a big thank you to Team Ortho for coming through when the previous race I had planned to run put up huge barriers to me doing it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a tendency to try and do too much. Most of the time it works out well; this is an example of where it didn’t. And the final swift kick that got me to refocus. When I did my 2016 schedule, I had it bookended by half marathons. With everything going on in my … Continue reading Lesson Learned… Finally? – 10\/23\/16<\/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],"tags":[242,243,241,96,7,172,244],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-james","tag-chicago-monster","tag-chicago-monster-dash","tag-doug-dortch","tag-half-marathon","tag-james-gilliard","tag-lee-dunbar","tag-team-ortho"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","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=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}