{"id":1295,"date":"2009-09-20T23:54:39","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T06:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/?p=1295"},"modified":"2009-09-21T00:06:04","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T07:06:04","slug":"still-cramming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/2009\/09\/20\/still-cramming\/","title":{"rendered":"Still cramming."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been over a decade (actually, just about 11 years and around 4 months) since I&#8217;ve graduated from university and I&#8217;m still <em>cramming.<\/em> No, I&#8217;m not studying for an exam or anything intellectual like that (ROFL). I&#8217;m cramming my training for my Long Beach 1\/2 Marathon!<\/p>\n<p>I think summer got in the way of my training (it really did) and for some reason, I stopped, er, training. Yep, no running, no cross-training (does surfing count?) &#8212; nothin! Fast forward a month and it finally hits me that I have two more long distance races before year&#8217;s end and I&#8217;m not prepared.<\/p>\n<p>I decided, after my horrid performance\/experience at the San Diego Marathon in 2008, that I would never <em>ever<\/em> do that to myself again. As a result, I&#8217;ve been relatively disciplined with training and deserved my Camp Pendleton Marathon personal record and 5 weeks after that, ran another marathon and finished unscathed (with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.runninginpigtails.com\/?p=1475\">Sharool<\/a>!). I guess I forget that promise to myself when summer arrived and the beer kept flowing! Hehehehe. (Technically, I stopped training after my last 1\/2 marathon [San Fran in July] so would that still be regarded as summer?) \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, without ending up too wordy (too late), I&#8217;ve kick started my training by running about 13 miles on Saturday. I&#8217;ll be cramming the rest of my runs up until the fated day (Long Beach is on October 11th) and am hoping that I don&#8217;t fall off the wagon (or however that idiom goes) by the time the Las Vegas half comes by.<\/p>\n<p>AHHHHHHHHHH!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been over a decade (actually, just about 11 years and around 4 months) since I&#8217;ve graduated from university and I&#8217;m still cramming. No, I&#8217;m not studying for an exam or anything intellectual like that (ROFL). I&#8217;m cramming my training for my Long Beach 1\/2 Marathon!<br \/>\nI think summer got in the way of my training  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/2009\/09\/20\/still-cramming\/\"> read more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[98,99],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1297,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions\/1297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}