{"id":511,"date":"2014-08-12T22:14:16","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T03:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deanomac.com\/?p=511"},"modified":"2014-08-12T22:14:16","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T03:14:16","slug":"hard-fought-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deanomac.com\/?p=511","title":{"rendered":"Hard fought victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ran 5k, barely. \u00a0While running I got 2 cramps in my side, they happened about a km apart at 2 and 3. Approaching the 4km mark my stomach was also grumbly and not happy, maybe from the tuna and chick pea juice. \u00a0My legs were burning as I approached the halfway point and both of my calves felt like they had enough, I was even feeling some back pain, not sure if it was from my posture. \u00a0In the end I was able to push through and finish it off. \u00a0I ran at 8minutes\/km again which isn&#8217;t too bad based on everything and how crappy I felt. \u00a0For the last km it felt like my leg was buzzing and tingling. \u00a0It&#8217;s been 3 days since I last ran because of the rain yesterday but I was finally able to do back to back 5k runs. \u00a0I certainly didn&#8217;t feel a runner&#8217;s high or that I could keep on running forever, I just felt fire in my legs and the desire to just get it over with.<\/p>\n<p>I had toastmasters today, it wasn&#8217;t bad, I forgot my humour speech in the car and had to do one off the top of my head up front. \u00a0I think I have mostly written a speech for next week, I hope it goes well. \u00a0It&#8217;s not good by any means but hopefully will be passable. \u00a0I finished reading the first Game of Thrones book today, it was really good and engaging. \u00a0The only story I didn&#8217;t care as much about was the dragon lady but I guess she&#8217;ll be integrated with the story better in the next book. \u00a0I should get to sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ran 5k, barely. \u00a0While running I got 2 cramps in my side, they happened about a km apart at 2 and 3. Approaching the 4km mark my stomach was also grumbly and not happy, maybe from the tuna and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deanomac.com\/?p=511\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deanomac.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deanomac.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deanomac.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deanomac.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deanomac.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.deanomac.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":512,"href":"https:\/\/www.deanomac.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions\/512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deanomac.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deanomac.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deanomac.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}