{"id":10844,"date":"2017-03-27T11:46:09","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T15:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=10844"},"modified":"2017-03-27T11:49:13","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T15:49:13","slug":"the-uncanny-monument-valley-the-monument-to-broken-dreams-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=10844","title":{"rendered":"The Uncanny Monument Valley? The Monument to Broken Dreams Valley?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I always laugh when runners or non-runners ask me about a particular muscle group.\u00a0 I have no idea what anything is called – my anatomy knowledge topped out with Mrs. Barton’s 5th grade quizzes.\u00a0 The femur is the leg bone that when broken IS rumored to be the gold standard 10 on the pain scale, topping even childbirth.\u00a0 Not having endured either, I cannot say… but whenever I’m injured someplace and I’m asked my pain level I always flash onto that factoid (is it a factoid if it’s just what people say?\u00a0 Perhaps in this not-so-brave new world order).<\/p>\n

This already has gone off the rails.\u00a0 My point is post-Monument Valley 50K, the top of my legs hurt.\u00a0 What are those?\u00a0 The thighs?\u00a0 It’s from climbing the mesa and just generally running in dirt and sand and rocks for 30+ miles.\u00a0 But I have been stuffing my face of late, claiming it’s all “recovery” but in truth it was all “gluttony.”\u00a0 Besides, this weekend’s another race and thus I need to train up, taper down, and get back in the groove.<\/p>\n

So today was a slowpoke recovery run.\u00a0 I had toyed with the idea of running last night to stretch out the legs post 10.5 hour car ride.\u00a0 But slothful heads and pasta-feedings precluded that plan.\u00a0 I slept terribly, the restless slumber of a car-dragged body combined with the depressive lull following the dissipation of endorphins and adrenaline after a long run.\u00a0 It was a lousy night… but I did watch The Eiger Sanction (1975)<\/em> which I had never seen; interestingly, there’s a long training sequence in of all places Monument Valley.\u00a0 I knew right where they were driving as I had both driven and run that road 42 years after them.<\/p>\n

Again, I digress.\u00a0 The real point (no, really this time) is that I ran a slow 10 miler this morning in this city of broken dreams, a fantasy that some might say is a fake world, one that serves as a monument to the uncanny valley<\/a> if ever there was one.<\/p>\n

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I always laugh when runners or non-runners ask me about a particular muscle group.\u00a0 I have no idea what anything is called – my anatomy knowledge topped out with Mrs. Barton’s 5th grade quizzes.\u00a0 The femur is the leg bone that when broken IS rumored to be the gold standard 10 on the pain scale, […]<\/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-10844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}