{"id":763,"date":"2010-06-06T19:37:01","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T02:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanpallas.com\/?p=763"},"modified":"2010-06-06T19:37:01","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T02:37:01","slug":"my-first-long-distance-attempt-not-a-complete-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/?p=763","title":{"rendered":"My First Long Distance Attempt &#8211; Not a Complete Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well I&#8217;ve completed another week of marathon training. It was a rough week since I&#8217;ve been fighting a head cold the majority of the week, but I tried my best to keep up on my training regiment.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I attempted to go for my first &#8220;long distance&#8221; run. It didn&#8217;t work out exactly like I would have liked, but I did learn some import lessons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Be very cognizant of the weather conditions. In this instance, it was particularly hot, and it really impacted my performance.<\/li>\n<li>Along those lines, make sure to bring water. I&#8217;ve been going on relatively short runs, so water really hasn&#8217;t been an issue. But with as hot as it was on today, I really could have used some water to hold me over.<\/li>\n<li>Similarly, make sure to have something to remove sweat. Due to the heat, I was perspiring pretty heavily. It eventually got into my eyes and burned pretty badly. A sweatband or small towel would have been very helpful.<\/li>\n<li>Prior to going on a long distance run, make sure to eat. The majority of my training has been done first thing in the morning prior to breakfast. I definitely need to take in some fuel before embarking on a long run next time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While I didn&#8217;t accomplish my goal of five miles, I did learn a lot, which is just as important as completing the run. It helped give me a baseline on my conditioning so I know how where I&#8217;m at endurance-wise. I also learned a lot more on how to prepare for similar runs in the future. In light of what I learned, I made some adjustments to my training plan to help improve my overall endurance.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, next weekend will be better&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well I&#8217;ve completed another week of marathon training. It was a rough week since I&#8217;ve been fighting a head cold the majority of the week, but I tried my best to keep up on my training regiment. Today, I attempted to go for my first &#8220;long distance&#8221; run. It didn&#8217;t work out exactly like I would have liked, but I did learn some import lessons: Be very cognizant of the weather conditions. In this instance, it was particularly hot, and it really impacted my performance. Along those lines, make sure to bring water. I&#8217;ve been going on relatively short runs,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p930oe-cj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}