{"id":23434,"date":"2018-03-19T13:02:56","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T17:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=23434"},"modified":"2018-03-19T13:02:56","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T17:02:56","slug":"just-press-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=23434","title":{"rendered":"Just Press “Work”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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All play and no work makes mounting a comeback that much harder.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t going to be easy.\u00a0 I\u2019ve long resisted suggestions from friends and family that I \u201ccut back\u201d on my races.\u00a0 I\u2019ve always been worried that if I did, I\u2019d find it easier and easier to just \u201cnot run\u201d and harder and harder to maintain the fitness level that near constant marathoning has afforded me.<\/p>\n

And now I know the truth.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s really, really ridiculously hard to get back into it once you\u2019ve taken a break.\u00a0 I took two weeks off, planning to take three.\u00a0 But when I saw my doctor about lethargy and dizziness and various maladies that I couldn\u2019t shake, she ran through a list of things and then I mentioned I had stopped running because of my bruised ribs.\u00a0 She told me I should have led with that because I\u2019m clearly endorphin deficient, going from high mileage to cold turkey, and that THAT is probably the greatest cause for my imbalances.<\/p>\n

So I started running late last week.\u00a0 And it was incredibly hard to get out the door.\u00a0 And even harder to maintain any kind of pace that I had known before.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s going to be a long road back to fighting form, to running times, to really much of anything.<\/p>\n

Going forward then there\u2019s going to be a fair bit of \u201cshoulder to the wheel\u201d blogging, as this becomes the story of a comeback sown in the fields of hard work.<\/p>\n

And because I rarely if ever do anything in moderation, it all begins with the Chili Pepper Series in Las Cruces, New Mexico.<\/p>\n

On my marks\u2026.<\/p>\n

Get set\u2026.<\/p>\n

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All play and no work makes mounting a comeback that much harder. This isn\u2019t going to be easy.\u00a0 I\u2019ve long resisted suggestions from friends and family that I \u201ccut back\u201d on my races.\u00a0 I\u2019ve always been worried that if I did, I\u2019d find it easier and easier to just \u201cnot run\u201d and harder and harder […]<\/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-23434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23434","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=23434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}