{"id":1539,"date":"2005-03-11T12:05:08","date_gmt":"2005-03-11T17:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/03\/training_update\/"},"modified":"2005-03-11T12:05:08","modified_gmt":"2005-03-11T17:05:08","slug":"training_update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/03\/training_update\/","title":{"rendered":"Training Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier in the week I  noted that I had <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/archives\/001529.html\">signed up for the Knoxville half marathon<\/a>.  I&#8217;m almost half way through my accelerated training program, so how are things going?<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve done two 11 mile runs this week.  Yes, I&#8217;ve felt my muscles the entire week (especially after the first run) and my pace was quite slow (9 minutes\/mile).  But at least  I&#8217;m pretty confident I should be able to chug through the event without collapsing on Cherokee Boulevard.<br \/>\nNow my primary concern is not the distance but the start time.  Who set this up at 7 am?  Not only will it likely be freezing cold, but more importantly it creates a dilemma with my eating schedule.  I could wing a 5 mile run without eating in advance, but I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s a good idea here.  And generally I need to wait three or four hours after a meal to do serious exercise, or I don&#8217;t feel so good.<br \/>\nSo what does this mean?  Do I need to get up at 3:30 am for breakfast?  Doesn&#8217;t sound like a good idea to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/03\/training_update\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Training Update\"><p>Earlier in the week I noted that I had signed up for the Knoxville half marathon. I&#8217;m almost half way through my accelerated training program, so how are things going? I&#8217;ve done two 11 mile runs this week. Yes, I&#8217;ve felt my muscles the entire week (especially after the first run) and my pace was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}