{"id":287,"date":"2008-07-28T08:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T08:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2008\/07\/running-by-rote.html"},"modified":"2008-07-28T08:11:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-28T08:11:00","slug":"running-by-rote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2008\/07\/running-by-rote.html","title":{"rendered":"Running by Rote"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s 8:11 a.m. and I’ve run 8.58 miles (which included 5 x 1200 at an average of 7:45 pace), showered, had breakfast, drank coffee, made my kids’ lunches, read e-mail, and am now writing a quick blog. What have you done so far today?<\/p>\n

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Seriously, though, I’m at the point of my marathon<\/a> training where I kind of dread the next workout, although when I’m actually doing them, I’m moving pretty much by rote. I was talking about this with my friend A.M. on our Saturday run (14 miles, 9:23 pace), how your legs can be moving but it’s as if they’re moving on your own–you’re completely disconnected from them. I feel that way about my workouts in general. I don’t set an alarm anymore; my body just wakes itself around 5 a.m. I roll out of bed without even thinking about it, dress, eat a banana, have some water, and then head out the door. I’m barely aware of what I’m doing. I just go. I only run three days<\/a> a week, although I cross train the other two. Boot camp one day–that’s easy as it’s already part of the schedule. I’m having problems coming up with what the other day of cross-training is. I alternate between biking and walking, although I’m hoping to add some yoga in. <\/p>\n

I keep a poster in my office from my first marathon<\/a> that reads, “At 18 miles you wonder why you do this. At 26.2 it all becomes perfectly clear.” I feel that way these days. I’m running, I’m running, I’m running, and I think, “Why? How ridiculous is this, a woman in her 40s running and running and running and where does it get me?”<\/p>\n

But then I remind myself. I do it to be healthy (although I’m at the other dreaded point in my training where I start adding on weight<\/a>–always happens). I do it to set a good example for my kids. I do it because I love that feeling of crossing a finish line, of completing a goal. I do it to hang another medal onto my collection. It’s just what I do.<\/p>\n

So when the next line on my training schedule says 5 miles at an 8:30 pace, that’s what I’ll be doing. And I’ll just keep telling myself, “One foot in front of the other. One foot in front of the other,” until I have another medal to hang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s 8:11 a.m. and I’ve run 8.58 miles (which included 5 x 1200 at an average of 7:45 pace), showered, had breakfast, drank coffee, made my kids’ lunches, read e-mail, and am now writing a quick blog. What have you done so far today? Seriously, though, I’m at the point of my marathon training where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,37],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-me","tag-sporty-mom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}