{"id":266,"date":"2010-11-12T22:34:21","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T22:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/2010\/11\/all-runners-are-worthy-of-respect\/"},"modified":"2010-11-12T22:34:21","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T22:34:21","slug":"all-runners-are-worthy-of-respect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/2010\/11\/all-runners-are-worthy-of-respect\/","title":{"rendered":"All runners are worthy of respect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harry, over at Barefoot Ted&#8217;s mailing list has written a great <a title=\"There's More than Just the Marathon\" href=\"http:\/\/hhollines.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/theres-more-than-just-marathon.html\">post<\/a>&nbsp;about the marathon. He makes a very valid point. I am pretty sure that I could just about stagger through a marathon right now. It might take me 8 hours, and calling it running might be debatable, but I have covered over 26.2 miles on Dartmoor in about 8 and a half hours, with a heavy pack. On the other hand, there&#8217;s no way I could run a 5K in under 20 minutes, or a 10K in 40 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>I am taking the slow and steady approach to my running. I run when I feel like running and don&#8217;t when I don&#8217;t. I have worked up to being able to run 5K relatively comfortably, but I&#8217;m still pretty slow at it. I aim to build up a decent base before moving on in distance. I think that way, I will eventually be in a position to run a marathon without keeling over.<\/p>\n<p>Slow and steady might not win the race, but I&#8217;m hoping it will mean I can keep running injury free and, most importantly, keep enjoying my running.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harry, over at Barefoot Ted&#8217;s mailing list has written a great post&nbsp;about the marathon. He makes a very valid point. I am pretty sure that I could just about stagger through a marathon right now. It might take me 8 hours, and calling it running might be debatable, but I have covered over 26.2 miles\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/2010\/11\/all-runners-are-worthy-of-respect\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[172],"tags":[21,173,119],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running-2","tag-5k","tag-marathon","tag-running"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9qMPF-4i","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}