{"id":13535,"date":"2017-06-25T12:55:55","date_gmt":"2017-06-25T16:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=13535"},"modified":"2017-06-25T12:55:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-25T16:55:55","slug":"some-days-you-hit-the-pavement-some-days-the-pavement-hits-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=13535","title":{"rendered":"Some days you hit the pavement… some days the pavement hits you."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Yeesh. My phone says it’s 67% humidity. That’s gotta be a lie. Unless it’s gone down markedly from this morning I refuse to believe that. It was Tarzan Movie hot plus 4. I felt more like I was swimming than trying to run.<\/p>\n

Some days you hit the pavement and some days the pavement hits you. Today was definitely a pavement pounding me. There was A LOT of walking and I just felt… drippingly defeated. I’m a little worried about the moonshot in four weeks time.<\/p>\n

I tell myself part of this is the heat and humidity. I tell myself part of this is the ongoing antibiotic popping recuperation from low grade malaria et al. I’m on a yo-yo recovery plan — feeling a bit better at the high and then rolling back down into a low. But I’m trying.<\/p>\n

Those all though are excuses and excuses do not become us. I’m just kinda struggling getting back into things.<\/p>\n

At this stage then I feel like there’s a few polar opposite approaches I could take to prepping for the moonshot.<\/p>\n

Option 1: Taper, Rest, and Relaunch – in this instance I cut back on the mileage, going so far as to take a rest day. That’s already happened this weekend as I don’t have a race (again?!) and I could conceivably slip some miles. But I skipped more than a few days in Madagascar and look what happened there? Ok, ok… again, that might have been the malaria\/dehydration\/food poisoning\/lack of sleep but still… I KNOW I don’t do well mentally when I skip runs. Which brings us to…<\/p>\n

Option 2: Redouble the efforts, shock and awe the miles, and, say… there’s a few marathons down at the beach in July I could go do…so…<\/p>\n

Option 3: Failure.\u00a0 But as they say, that is not an option.<\/p>\n

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Yeesh. My phone says it’s 67% humidity. That’s gotta be a lie. Unless it’s gone down markedly from this morning I refuse to believe that. It was Tarzan Movie hot plus 4. I felt more like I was swimming than trying to run. Some days you hit the pavement and some days the pavement hits […]<\/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-13535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13535","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=13535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}