{"id":2584,"date":"2012-05-15T10:31:54","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T15:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=2584"},"modified":"2012-05-15T10:32:29","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T15:32:29","slug":"looking-at-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=2584","title":{"rendered":"Looking at the ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Today&#8217;s run: Limerock road]<\/p>\n<p>Today I tried to take a picture which would convey what I am usually looking at when I run.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d say that it is close, but still not quite right.\u00a0 Frequently when I run I just look at the ground.\u00a0 Looking at the horizon is a more pleasant view.\u00a0 But longer the view the slower I seem to be going.\u00a0 And that can be discouraging.<\/p>\n<p>The Boardtown Runners have one route which involves going through a forested area on a gravel road.\u00a0 Seen on a map the road looks like a stair step, it goes about half\u00a0 a mile horizontal\u00a0 (east\/west) then half a mile vertical (north\/south).\u00a0 I like that route because the view is about the right distance for me.\u00a0 It feels more expansive than looking at the ground but not so much as to be discouraging.<\/p>\n<p>So I conclude that my maximum comfortable view distance while running is about half a mile.<\/p>\n<p>But that sometimes changes.\u00a0 If the view is really great then it can overcome the no-progress\/discouragement factor.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So I modify my conclusion:\u00a0 I like views of about half a mile unless there is something really nice to look at, otherwise I tend to look at the ground.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?attachment_id=2585\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2585\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2585\" title=\"IMG00563-20120515-0858\" src=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG00563-20120515-0858-700x525.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG00563-20120515-0858-700x525.jpg 700w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG00563-20120515-0858.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Today&#8217;s run: Limerock road] Today I tried to take a picture which would convey what I am usually looking at when I run. I&#8217;d say that it is close, but still not quite right.\u00a0 Frequently when I run I just look at the ground.\u00a0 Looking at the horizon is a more pleasant view.\u00a0 But longer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2584"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2589,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584\/revisions\/2589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}