{"id":2355,"date":"2010-12-10T21:12:56","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T05:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/?p=2355"},"modified":"2010-12-10T21:12:56","modified_gmt":"2010-12-11T05:12:56","slug":"shilly-shally-training-and-stickers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/2010\/12\/10\/shilly-shally-training-and-stickers\/","title":{"rendered":"Shilly-shally training and stickers!"},"content":{"rendered":"

AHHHHHH. First week into my Los Angeles Marathon training and… I did not<\/em> do all 3 midweek runs; in other words, did not do a single workout this week. To make things worse, I didn’t exactly have the best nutrition, either (think two slices of cake w\/ icing and a glass of milk for lunch one day, and then hot wings and fries the next). >_<<\/p>\n

This is why I haven’t reached my PR goals this year (thanks to skipped runs) and I certainly won’t let that happen next year! I’m already nearly 7 lbs lighter than I was last summer, so I’m using that as my continuing motivation to keep on going. That, and I really really<\/em> want to finish a marathon under or at 5:35 before I turn 35!<\/p>\n

But I really don’t want to run 4 times a week, either. Ugh. LOL. Without sounding like a schitzo<\/em> runner, I’m going to do my best to complete at least<\/em> 3 training runs a week (2 midweek and 1 weekend). I used to tell myself that if I could do at least 2 runs a week (which ends up being just once a week), I’ll be fine; and I was, but that only really meant I finished my marathons around 6 hours (and above). I’ll still do my run\/walk intervals and motivate myself to do all 4 runs every week, but I’m making a mental note (and cementing it here on digital paper) that 3 is the new minimum.<\/p>\n

And as even more motivation, I got shiny new stickers the other day to post on my calendar for each run (and workout) I complete. Yes. I’m 12 years old. Check it —<\/p>\n

\"Stickers.<\/a>

Stickers. w00t.<\/p><\/div>\n

Stars for completed midweek runs; encircled stars for completed long run and cross-training workouts \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AHHHHHH. First week into my Los Angeles Marathon training and… I did not do all 3 midweek runs; in other words, did not do a single workout this week. To make things worse, I didn’t exactly have the best nutrition, either (think two slices of cake w\/ icing and a glass of milk for lunch read more »<\/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":[106,321,322],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355"}],"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=2355"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2365,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions\/2365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}