{"id":2618,"date":"2014-09-12T13:31:51","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T18:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=2618"},"modified":"2014-09-12T13:31:51","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T18:31:51","slug":"determined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=2618","title":{"rendered":"#Determined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I went for a walk. \u00a0It was close to three miles. \u00a0Not quite, but close.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I decided to try for time, not distance. \u00a0I wanted to be out there for an hour. \u00a0I need to dramatically increase the time on my feet if I am going to run the Chicago Marathon. \u00a0It is one month from today.<\/p>\n<p>I walked at a pretty good clip (for me). \u00a0It makes me wish that I did not have such short stubby legs. \u00a0Being 4&#8217;11&#8217; makes it difficult to cover much territory very fast. \u00a0I ended up walking 4 miles in one hour.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing as I was a half mile from the house at this point, I decided to test my noggin and run the last half mile. \u00a0Just to see how I was recovering.<\/p>\n<p>It was&#8230;weird. \u00a0I wasn&#8217;t in any discomfort or anything, it is just that I don&#8217;t remember the ground jiggling around so much when I ran before. \u00a0The ground was shifting? \u00a0It was definitely NOT staying in place like it used to. \u00a0Hmmm&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This will not do.<\/p>\n<p>Time is running out. \u00a0I have, at the most, one more week I can spend on my lazy rumpatootis, trying frantically to recover from this concussion&#8230; to make a &#8220;Hail Mary&#8221; attempt at running Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She was unstoppable, not because she did not have failures or doubts but because she continued on despite them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>#Determined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I went for a walk. \u00a0It was close to three miles. \u00a0Not quite, but close. Today, I decided to try for time, not distance. \u00a0I wanted to be out there for an hour. \u00a0I need to dramatically increase the time on my feet if I am going to run the Chicago Marathon. \u00a0It is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,8,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618"}],"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=2618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2619,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618\/revisions\/2619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}