{"id":16,"date":"2015-04-20T04:14:29","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T03:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/srmcreative.com\/runblog\/?p=16"},"modified":"2019-12-19T23:23:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T23:23:12","slug":"night-runs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/index.php\/2015\/04\/20\/night-runs\/","title":{"rendered":"Night Runs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/desertrunaround.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/07\/race_592_photo_13473897-e1437543683903.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1335\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2014-illum-on-course.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2014-illum-on-course.jpg 1335w, https:\/\/azventurer.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2014-illum-on-course-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/azventurer.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2014-illum-on-course-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/azventurer.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2014-illum-on-course-1025x1536.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/azventurer.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2014-illum-on-course-1200x1798.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1335px) 100vw, 1335px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Night runs are awesome, and love them. Here&#8217;s why:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a night owl by nature, night runs are just going to appeal to me more than day runs right off the bat. I do most of my training running at night. You don&#8217;t have to get up at 4 AM to make a 6:30 start. You can show up early and tool around at vendor booths. It&#8217;s just a way more relaxed atmosphere than you have with early runs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On top of that, night runs physiologically match up to your race temperature patterns more than morning races. The longer you run, the more you heat up. With a morning race, the temperature outside is heating up, too, meaning that you have one of two choices: schedule for a more-ideal finishing temperature, which usually means you start real cold, or schedule for a more-ideal starting temperature, which means you finish hot. With a night race, the temperature goes down as the race goes on and you warm up. So you can have something like <a href=\"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/index.php\/2014\/11\/29\/illuminations-half-marathon\/\">Illuminations<\/a>, where you start with a cool temp, and you can keep on gunning through it because it just gets colder as you go, and you&#8217;re in no danger of overheating. And even if it does get chilly (it did), you&#8217;re generating enough of your own heat to offset it. At least until you get to the finish line and start cooling off!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seriously, night runs are the best. If you haven&#8217;t done one, you should.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Night runs are awesome, and love them. Here&#8217;s why: As a night owl by nature, night runs are just going to appeal to me more than day runs right off the bat. I do most of my training running at night. You don&#8217;t have to get up at 4 AM to make a 6:30 start.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/index.php\/2015\/04\/20\/night-runs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Night Runs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-races","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","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=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660,"href":"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}