{"id":1671,"date":"2013-06-18T14:31:56","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T19:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=1671"},"modified":"2013-06-18T14:31:56","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T19:31:56","slug":"and-so-it-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=1671","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;And So It Begins&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Run: \u00a0Rest Day<\/p>\n<p>I began my marathon training yesterday. \u00a0I was terrified! \u00a0Still am, actually. \u00a0Today and all Tuesdays are going to be the most difficult day of the week. \u00a0Rest Day.<\/p>\n<p>I am so used to doing SOMETHING! \u00a0But everything I have read stresses the importance of resting on your rest days and that is something that goes against everything I know. \u00a0I do not like to be a &#8220;lazy daisy&#8221;! \u00a0I must be moving and using my time to accomplish things.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I slept in until 5:00 and then made breakfast. These days we are eating breakfast pretty early so we can get out on our morning run ASAP. \u00a0Yesterday I waited too long and it was already in the 80&#8217;s F. for my early morning run! \u00a0Too hot! \u00a0Feeling the need to make myself useful, I walked the dog. \u00a0The dog was happy!<\/p>\n<p>By 8:00 this morning I was a Lowe&#8217;s buying chicken wire. \u00a0By 9:00 I had built an enclosure around my chicken tractor so the hens would have a little bit of wiggle room outside the tractor but would not be able to go into the weedy field or the woods.<\/p>\n<p>I cleaned house. \u00a0I did three loads of laundry. \u00a0Visited the chickens a zillion times. \u00a0Picked up my sons car from the shop&#8230;this rest day is for the birds. \u00a0I would be better off just going for a run and getting this restlessness out of my system.<\/p>\n<p>So, tomorrow is a scheduled run day. \u00a0YAY!!! \u00a0I will be good and tired and feel like I did something productive. \u00a0I can hardly wait!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3_gst-Ryh3g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Run: \u00a0Rest Day I began my marathon training yesterday. \u00a0I was terrified! \u00a0Still am, actually. \u00a0Today and all Tuesdays are going to be the most difficult day of the week. \u00a0Rest Day. I am so used to doing SOMETHING! \u00a0But everything I have read stresses the importance of resting on your rest days and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,6,8,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1672,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions\/1672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}