{"id":374,"date":"2016-06-09T21:36:21","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T20:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/wordpress\/?p=374"},"modified":"2016-06-09T16:43:29","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T15:43:29","slug":"going-for-a-little-jog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/blog\/?p=374","title":{"rendered":"Going for a little jog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the <a href=\"http:\/\/thamerunners.co.uk\/cpm-thame-10k\/\">Thame 10k<\/a> coming up in a little over a fortnight, I thought it best to go for a quick training run. Besides, isn\u2019t cross-training what it\u2019s all about these days? So, in the best tradition of ensuring that I can do more than I\u2019ll actually be asked to do I ran 11k &#8211; and bloody hell! To think that people actually run for fun! It was excruciating. And I was slow.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I understand (and maybe some runners will be able to correct me on this) that a man of my age should be able to run a 10k in less than an hour. I can\u2019t. It took me an hour and eight painful minutes &#8211; which doesn\u2019t, it must be admitted, bode well for any other strenuous excursions that I might have planned. Like, say, a bike ride from Newcastle to London.<\/p>\n<p>Safe to say that I\u2019m feeling a little disheartened, and utterly staggered that anyone can enjoy running! I needed a consolatory bacon sandwich just to cheer me up. Speaking of which, a good friend of mine (James) asked me if I intended to alter my diet in the run up to the event. The answer, of course, is no. I enjoy eating far too much, and I have no intention of curtailing that pleasure. I had a medical recently, and I\u2019m all clear on BP, heart rate, cholesterol and so forth &#8211; so if it ain\u2019t broke, don\u2019t meddle!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Thame 10k coming up in a little over a fortnight, I thought it best to go for a quick training run. Besides, isn\u2019t cross-training what it\u2019s all about these days? So, in the best tradition of ensuring that I can do more than I\u2019ll actually be asked to do I ran 11k &#8211; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/blog\/?p=374\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Going for a little jog&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}