{"id":10848,"date":"2017-03-28T09:20:51","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T13:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=10848"},"modified":"2017-03-28T09:22:16","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T13:22:16","slug":"an-inauspicious-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=10848","title":{"rendered":"An (In)auspicious Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had set my alarm for 5 am to get a run in before heading to the airport. With nary a “snooze,” I got out the door and pounded the pavement… until it pounded back.<\/p>\n

About a mile into my intended 10 miler, something happened to my left ankle. I didn’t roll it, it wasn’t a bad foot fall that I could point to. It just… hurt. Something went wrong and every step felt like a disgruntled former lover or business partner had purchased a dark web Kevin voodoo doll and was twisting a knitting needle into my Achilles.<\/p>\n

I hobbled along, hoping to work the kink out… only to slow to a standstill and ultimately a retreat. It was a long, slow, and dare I say painful trip back.<\/p>\n

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But I did stumble upon this shiny object in the crosswalk. At first I passed right by it but something made me turn around and retrace a few limped steps to pick it up. I had figured it might be a nickel or a quarter and at least I’d have something positive to show for this morning’s efforts. What I discovered was that it was a flattened, goldish hued metal. Perhaps it had been a Krugerrand… but for now it looked like it had been placed on a train track and run over repeatedly. I suppose LA does have a subway these days… but there aren’t a lot of trains nearby.<\/p>\n

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A good luck charm? A monetary metaphor for my once mighty ankle rendered incapacitated by unseen forces? Or just one of those things, the very definition of inexplicable?<\/p>\n

The one true thing of the morning? It was a terribly slow and painful slog.<\/p>\n

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I had set my alarm for 5 am to get a run in before heading to the airport. With nary a “snooze,” I got out the door and pounded the pavement… until it pounded back. About a mile into my intended 10 miler, something happened to my left ankle. I didn’t roll it, it wasn’t […]<\/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-10848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10848","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=10848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}