{"id":19253,"date":"2017-10-26T12:55:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T16:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=19253"},"modified":"2017-10-26T12:56:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T16:56:30","slug":"the-missing-pieces-october-26-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=19253","title":{"rendered":"The Missing Pieces – October 26, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Still not sure if this will get lost in the web hosting company changeover. Hence – the Missing Pieces.<\/p>\n

October 26, 2017:<\/p>\n

Yesterday I received this email from the Kathmandu Urban Marathon:<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m trying to use it as motivation for recovery and rebuilding my training. It\u2019s amazing how quickly I feel like any endurance and built up training miles all evaporates and recedes when not pounding the pavement. \u00a0Within a day or two I feel like I\u2019m weeks behind.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a training chestnut that inevitable gets dug up when one contemplates coming back from injury. It is usually deployed in the context of, \u201cI know I\u2019m injured but I\u2019ve got this race or event coming up that I\u2019ve been training for such a long time. \u00a0Couldn\u2019t I just do it?\u201d And this\u00a0chestnut gets plucked from the motivational pile and cracked open, revealing a\u00a0fortune cookie reply (yeah, yeah. It\u2019s a messy mixed metaphor smorgasbord. I know.)<\/p>\n

Are you a lifetime runner or are you running the event of a lifetime?<\/p>\n

Basically if you run through the injury it could make things so much worse that you will not be able to run ever again. \u00a0In the mind we know what\u2019s the right answer. \u00a0But in the heart? \u00a0Well…<\/p>\n

Is this event so important that it\u2019s worth ending your running lifestyle forever? Is it the one to go out on and possibly never come back from? Ominous and aggressive tough love to be sure.<\/p>\n

Is it really so much different from a gate agent at\u00a0Heathrow telling me I would die if I walked the terminal? For the record – Yes, yes it is different.<\/p>\n

There have been events I would have risked as a lifestyle ending run. There also have been runs that were not worth risking much of anything for and yet I ran them injured, or food poisoned, or with a pneumonia.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m a stubborn old fool and one has to wonder if I can change this late in life. I\u2019m not sure we ever can change… not permanently. But I do think we can alter for a time. It\u2019s perhaps because of that mindset that I don\u2019t ever want to believe anything is the runner\u2019s lifestyle crusher it could be. Yet I know all things end. Entropy is real. I just hope that this short term hiatus will postpone the final end for a little while longer.<\/p>\n

This is a mess. As a reflection of me though it may be a perfect representation of where I\u2019m at… and where I\u2019m going. \u00a0Or not going.<\/p>\n

I guess I\u2019m still blogging wallowkevinwallow. \u00a0Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Still not sure if this will get lost in the web hosting company changeover. Hence – the Missing Pieces. October 26, 2017: Yesterday I received this email from the Kathmandu Urban Marathon: I\u2019m trying to use it as motivation for recovery and rebuilding my training. It\u2019s amazing how quickly I feel like any endurance and […]<\/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-19253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19253","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=19253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}