{"id":114,"date":"2015-11-05T17:30:40","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T00:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/srmcreative.com\/runblog\/?p=114"},"modified":"2019-12-23T23:31:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T23:31:56","slug":"looking-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/index.php\/2015\/11\/05\/looking-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I don&#8217;t usually post a lot on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/shane.massey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">my Facebook page<\/a>, but every once in a while I write something that I think is pretty good. I don&#8217;t know a) how many people are ever going to look at this blog, and b) how many of them are going to be my Facebook friends, so I&#8217;m just going to re-post this here.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>This is&#8230; not a great picture of probably anyone in it, but I love it. Four years ago today, I ran the first race of my life, a 5K obstacle course race. This is what I looked like. Shins taped, knee braces on both legs. I came home exhausted and spent most of the rest of the weekend sleeping, and then I hobbled for the next couple of days. I think I trained about ten weeks for this race, and I hurt for an awful lot of it.<\/em><\/p><p><em>I don&#8217;t have a good reason for why I fell in love wi<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">th running, but I did, and I still love it. Four years ago, I ran a 5K race, and tomorrow I&#8217;m going to go be part of a four-person relay team, each running about 31 miles on desert trails.<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not posting this terrible picture because I want to toot my own horn. I&#8217;m posting it because I am profoundly grateful to have been able to be on this journey, and because I&#8217;m hoping it might be helpful to some of you, too. I started out slow and in pain, and I stayed that way for a long time. But it got better, and I got better. The things that it&#8217;s possible to do are just staggering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t usually post a lot on my Facebook page, but every once in a while I write something that I think is pretty good. I don&#8217;t know a) how many people are ever going to look at this blog, and b) how many of them are going to be my Facebook friends, so I&#8217;m&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/index.php\/2015\/11\/05\/looking-back\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Looking Back<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellany","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":704,"href":"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}