{"id":2668,"date":"2014-10-08T13:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T18:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=2668"},"modified":"2014-10-08T13:00:36","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T18:00:36","slug":"training-is-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=2668","title":{"rendered":"Training Is Done"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning I set out on my last training run for Chicago. \u00a04.50 miles. \u00a0I don’t know what my training schedule said to do, I’ve been ignoring it the past couple of weeks and just been doing what felt right.<\/p>\n

I DO know that the next two days are supposed to be rest days, two miles on Saturday and then Sunday is race day! \u00a0 Seeing as I have a bazillion things to wrap up tomorrow and then hit the road for Chicago on Friday, the schedule is working out perfect!<\/p>\n

Yesterday and today, I actually had a running buddy! \u00a0My neighbor is new to running and we have met the past two mornings in a row. \u00a0We had run together a few times before my Ultra in July and then hadn’t crossed paths since then.<\/p>\n

He had been back in California (he just moved here from there earlier this year) wrapping up some loose ends. \u00a0I had been on vacation, blah, blah, blah, and we finally crossed paths again. \u00a0Nice guy and the company is most welcome.<\/p>\n

Seeing as he is new to running, he comes with a lot of questions. \u00a0His biggest concern right now is his shoes. \u00a0He needs some good running shoes in the worst way. \u00a0I have given him advice. \u00a0Told him NOT to go to Walmart. \u00a0So, what did he do? \u00a0Yup, went to Walmart. \u00a0Those shoes lasted less than a week. \u00a0At least he learned his lesson and got that out of his system.<\/p>\n

He is wanting to do a race here in the near future, so I may be running a race with him yet this fall…we’ll see if that pans out.<\/p>\n

Anyway, training for Chicago is done.<\/p>\n

Whew!<\/p>\n

I am ready to have this race done. \u00a0I am very excited about it, don’t get me wrong, but I am ready to have it done.<\/p>\n

I am going to take a little break from long distances here after Chicago…just for a few weeks. \u00a0I am have about 3(?) weeks where I am not required to be doing uber long distance running and I want to plug in some speed work. \u00a0I haven’t been able to work on speed for over a yr. \u00a0I have just had to focus on building a solid base for long distances.<\/p>\n

I. am. slow.<\/p>\n

I would like to improve on that a little bit, so I am going to try to take advantage of those couple of weeks before Ultra training picks up again and see if I can go faster than a turtle.<\/p>\n

Speaking of turtles, I met up with this guy on my run this morning. \u00a0I won, but just by a hare (see what I did there \u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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This morning I set out on my last training run for Chicago. \u00a04.50 miles. \u00a0I don’t know what my training schedule said to do, I’ve been ignoring it the past couple of weeks and just been doing what felt right. I DO know that the next two days are supposed to be rest days, two […]<\/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\/2668"}],"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=2668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2670,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668\/revisions\/2670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}