{"id":2777,"date":"2014-12-09T14:34:22","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T20:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=2777"},"modified":"2014-12-09T14:34:22","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T20:34:22","slug":"runningsnob-intimidating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=2777","title":{"rendered":"#RunningSnob #Intimidating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For starters, I love hashtags! \u00a0They are so much fun!!!<\/p>\n<p>I was texting with #1 Daughter a few weeks ago and used a hashtag. \u00a0Boy oh boy, did I catch it from her! \u00a0&#8220;Mom, you are entirely too old to be using hashtags. \u00a0Never, ever use a hashtag when texting with me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I guess I embarrassed her. \u00a0It&#8217;s been know to happen. \u00a0HA!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it has been brought to my recent attention that I am a running snob. \u00a0AND that I am intimidating!!! \u00a0Who ever heard of such a thing!?!<\/p>\n<p>Every runner has a preference as to what distances they like to run. \u00a0I do not like running shorter distances. \u00a0There are two perfectly legitimate reasons for this. \u00a01~ I am not a very fast runner so I am not very good at shorter distances. 2~ The short distances hurt!!! \u00a0You have to run full tilt the entire way!!! \u00a0Ouch!<\/p>\n<p>The distances I like to run begin with the Half Marathon distance. \u00a0I really don&#8217;t care for that distance all that much but it&#8217;s kinda fun for every now and then. \u00a0I prefer the Marathon distance. \u00a0I feel like I&#8217;ve accomplished something when I run that distance. \u00a0I had a great time running that 50K last summer but seeing as I&#8217;ve only raced that distance once, I can&#8217;t really say it&#8217;s a favorite. \u00a0I&#8217;ll be racing that distance again in March, so the verdict is still out on that.<\/p>\n<p>I guess all of that makes me a #RunningSnob<\/p>\n<p>But to be called #Intimidating!?! \u00a0Wow. \u00a0That one really threw me for a loop!<\/p>\n<p>Most of you know that I am the Admin for state running group. \u00a0We have 374 members in our group as of this morning. \u00a0It is a super bunch of people!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of the people ran their first marathon last weekend. \u00a0This person is majorly excited about his accomplishment and has been bitten by the &#8220;I want to run an Ultra bug.&#8221; \u00a0Good for him!!!<\/p>\n<p>My running buddy, (remember her? \u00a0I wrote about her last week) told him to contact me, just to call me on the phone and talk to me about running Ultra&#8217;s and the training involved.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Nope.&#8221; was his firm reply.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why ever not!?!&#8221; she asked.<\/p>\n<p>That is when he said that he was afraid to talk to me. \u00a0That I intimidated him.<\/p>\n<p>That was a first for me. \u00a0I mean, I am almost 53 years old and short! \u00a0What about me would anybody ever find intimidating!?!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I told my running buddy to tell this guy to just call me. \u00a0I promised not to bite.<\/p>\n<p>Goodness.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s amazing the things you find out that people think about you, huh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For starters, I love hashtags! \u00a0They are so much fun!!! I was texting with #1 Daughter a few weeks ago and used a hashtag. \u00a0Boy oh boy, did I catch it from her! \u00a0&#8220;Mom, you are entirely too old to be using hashtags. \u00a0Never, ever use a hashtag when texting with me.&#8221; I guess I [&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\/2777"}],"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=2777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2778,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777\/revisions\/2778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}