{"id":494,"date":"2012-02-12T22:01:31","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T22:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/?p=494"},"modified":"2012-02-12T22:01:31","modified_gmt":"2012-02-12T22:01:31","slug":"things-i-learned-from-running-a-half-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/?p=494","title":{"rendered":"things I learned from running a half-marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>There are lots of like-minded individuals out there. There were over 5000 today.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s really freakin&#8217; cold at 6 in the morning in February in downtown Birmingham.<\/li>\n<li>Training would be useful for next time.<\/li>\n<li>No matter how much clothing you wear when you run, you&#8217;ll warm up best by just running.<\/li>\n<li>If it weren&#8217;t a matter of my legs getting sore\/stiff, I really believe I could have run the full marathon at a ten-minute mile pace today.  I wasn&#8217;t even breathing hard at the end.  That knowledge is really heartening.<\/li>\n<li>I like chocolate and berry-flavored Gu.  Vanilla bean, not so much.<\/li>\n<li>Running 13.1 miles generates some of the worst B.O. known to man.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s a lot easier to walk down stairs backwards when your legs hurt as badly as mine do right now.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s awesome to be able to eat a whole medium pizza for dinner and still quite possibly be calorie-negative for the day.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve got my medal and my finisher&#8217;s hat, but I think that my biggest thrill was being able to put a &#8220;13.1&#8221; magnet on my truck, and know I earned it &#8211; running the whole way.<\/li>\n<li>My wife is awesome for coming out and cheering for me in the aforementioned freezing temperatures.  For that matter, everyone else who stood outside and cheered is awesome too.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve come a long way in nine months &#8211; from couch to 13.1 miles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are lots of like-minded individuals out there. There were over 5000 today. It&#8217;s really freakin&#8217; cold at 6 in the morning in February in downtown Birmingham. Training would be useful for next time. No matter how much clothing you wear when you run, you&#8217;ll warm up best by just running. If it weren&#8217;t a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}