{"id":20368,"date":"2017-12-14T08:55:23","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T13:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=20368"},"modified":"2017-12-14T15:34:05","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T20:34:05","slug":"darth-haul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=20368","title":{"rendered":"Darth Haul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m worried about injuries.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what you say when you&#8217;re trying to keep up with a sports conversation but have no idea what sport or what teams are being discussed or anything at all. It&#8217;s a safe comment, shows you&#8217;re engaged but you aren&#8217;t really. A radio DJ once waxed poetic about this conversational dodge and he or she or they if it was a morning zoo drive-time discussion were all so right.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m worried about my injuries. I&#8217;ve got a nagging hamstring whatzit. It&#8217;s not an injury but it&#8217;s&#8230; annoyingly painful at times. And since I&#8217;ve got a marathon on Saturday I&#8217;m *trying* to rationalize not going for a run today. But last night I had a holiday &#8220;cheat&#8221; smorgasbord of cookies and treats that&#8217;d make Cookie Monster turn green (<a href=\"http:\/\/muppet.wikia.com\/wiki\/Cookie_Monster_Through_the_Years\">which he was during his Ed Sullivan years<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>So I do what I always seem to do when confronted with regrets and a downward spiral of depression over not going for a run &#8212; I researched big ticket race adventures&#8230; ones that require long haul flights.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve made my balance due payment for the Mt. Kilimanjaro Marathon, which means the Road To Marathon Series ends with a trek toward Zanzibar in June 2018.<\/p>\n<p>And just today I looked into a race in Carthage, Tunisia, that would enable me to tack on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mosaicnorthafrica.com\/package\/star-wars-tour\/\">6-day Star Wars locations tour<\/a>, following in the footsteps of Luke Skywalker on the sands of Tatooine. The tour company I found quotes in Canadian dollars so with the exchange rate it&#8217;s like I&#8217;m paying 23% LESS.\u00a0 That&#8217;s just good financial planning, right?\u00a0 A bargain, even.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m worried about my mental health.\u00a0 It&#8217;s one of the reasons I run, to clear my head.\u00a0 It&#8217;s one of the reasons I travel to run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m worried about injuries. That&#8217;s what you say when you&#8217;re trying to keep up with a sports conversation but have no idea what sport or what teams are being discussed or anything at all. It&#8217;s a safe comment, shows you&#8217;re engaged but you aren&#8217;t really. A radio DJ once waxed poetic about this conversational dodge [&hellip;]<\/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-20368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20368","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=20368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}