I flew back to Los Angeles today as I\u2019m set to run the Surf City Marathon on Super Bowl Sunday.\u00a0 Post Blues2Beach, my body aches.\u00a0 Every fiber of my being is yawningly tired, a dull throbbing pain reverberating through my leg muscles.\u00a0 It\u2019s as if they need more oxygen, like a fish out of water glub-glubbing, puckering and unpuckering the gills\/lips of a fish face, trying to find the means to survive.<\/p>\n
The tendons are tuckered.\u00a0 The ligaments are lethargic.\u00a0 The sinews are spent.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not so desperate as all that though \u2013 I\u2019ll be fine in a few days (I hope).\u00a0 But discretion and common sense recommends that post-baggage claim hustle and bustle in the Los Angeles International Airport and Perpetual Construction Site, I may just Lyft home and skip the afternoon recovery run.\u00a0 It might behoove me to stretch out the muscles after sitting on this Southwest non-direct, non-non stop flight (after connecting in Nashville, I boarded a flight to LAX that stopped in Phoenix\u2026 I didn\u2019t deplane, just sat and awaited the through-count from the back of the plane).\u00a0 But my muscles all say, \u201cya know what?\u00a0 Skip it.\u00a0 Just\u2026 skip it.\u201d<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t always listen to my body.\u00a0 But today seems like a day to listen.\u00a0 Today seems like one of those, “and on the whatever day, Kevin decided to rest” days.<\/p>\n
Given that the Big Beach was such a struggle, it\u2019d be nice to go out on Sunday morn and run a solid, healthy, fun run.<\/p>\n
The state of the body is strong, I guess.\u00a0 Provided it can recover a bit.<\/p>\n
So today, by the power vested in me by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers<\/span> who lists me as the domain contact for runkevinrun.com, I’m declaring today a rest day.<\/p>\n If I rebuild it, I will run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I flew back to Los Angeles today as I\u2019m set to run the Surf City Marathon on Super Bowl Sunday.\u00a0 Post Blues2Beach, my body aches.\u00a0 Every fiber of my being is yawningly tired, a dull throbbing pain reverberating through my leg muscles.\u00a0 It\u2019s as if they need more oxygen, like a fish out of water […]<\/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-21438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21438","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=21438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}