{"id":29939,"date":"2019-01-01T11:06:17","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T16:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=29939"},"modified":"2019-01-01T11:06:17","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T16:06:17","slug":"a-19k-on-new-years-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=29939","title":{"rendered":"A 19K on New Year&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I still can&#8217;t figure out if it&#8217;s New Year&#8217;s Day or New Years Day. I think it&#8217;s possessive &#8212; The Day that Belongs To The New Year. I&#8217;m going with that but it&#8217;s like my ongoing inability to decide if it is supposed to be Season&#8217;s Greetings or Seasons Greetings. I think it&#8217;s again supposed to be the Greetings of this Season. But, man, I don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>I found myself thinking about that during my 19K this morning. I had it in my head to run one as a proper kick off for 2019. And I got around to it&#8230; eventually. I wasn&#8217;t recovering from some massive late night New Year&#8217;s Eve rager. Far from it. I seem to be fighting a narcoleptic strand of depressing mononucleosis. That&#8217;s not confirmed, not even by WebMD\/Dr. Google. That&#8217;s just what I&#8217;m calling it. I seem to be impossibly exhausted at all time regardless of sleeping hours.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/RunKevinRun-LOGO-TURN-Happy-New-Year-2019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-29945 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/RunKevinRun-LOGO-TURN-Happy-New-Year-2019-1024x473.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/RunKevinRun-LOGO-TURN-Happy-New-Year-2019-1024x473.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/RunKevinRun-LOGO-TURN-Happy-New-Year-2019-300x138.jpg 300w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/RunKevinRun-LOGO-TURN-Happy-New-Year-2019-768x355.jpg 768w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/RunKevinRun-LOGO-TURN-Happy-New-Year-2019-660x305.jpg 660w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/RunKevinRun-LOGO-TURN-Happy-New-Year-2019-450x208.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><\/a>In any case, I eventually did get out the door and pound the pavement&#8230; ever slower I might add&#8230; to reach my 19K goal. As has been the case for the last few months, my left leg does not like to run and feels a bit wobbly as I stride.\u00a0 It&#8217;s fine walking so I occasionally find myself shuffling along, seconds stretching into minutes and the pace falling off a cliff.\u00a0 But I do eventually get there&#8230; just a bit more wincingly than I&#8217;d like.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, I wound up doing 12 miles, a bit more than the 19K if only because I wasn&#8217;t sure how best to hit 11.8061 miles. I suppose I could have switched my Garmin watch to kilometers but the way things have been going, any time I try and do something lately it seems to backfire tremendously.<\/p>\n<p>All this is just rambling prelude to say 2019 may bring more of the same with an effort to try and do better.<\/p>\n<p>My stats over at marathonguide.com are a blank page for 2019&#8230; and that will change come Saturday with the first marathon of the year. But until then, I raise a post-run glass to the new year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/New-Years-Day-Post-Run-Drink.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-29944 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/New-Years-Day-Post-Run-Drink-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"349\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/New-Years-Day-Post-Run-Drink-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/New-Years-Day-Post-Run-Drink-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/New-Years-Day-Post-Run-Drink-660x880.jpg 660w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/New-Years-Day-Post-Run-Drink-450x600.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 349px) 100vw, 349px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fun Fact: That&#8217;s blue Powerade Zero doubling as Romulan Ale for those wondering about the behind the scenes magic of Run Kevin Run Dot Com.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s in the books&#8230; now it&#8217;s on to tomorrow&#8217;s run!\u00a0 The goal?\u00a0 The same as every day in 2019:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Today-Greater-Than-Yesterday.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-29947 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Today-Greater-Than-Yesterday-1024x388.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Today-Greater-Than-Yesterday-1024x388.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Today-Greater-Than-Yesterday-300x114.jpg 300w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Today-Greater-Than-Yesterday-768x291.jpg 768w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Today-Greater-Than-Yesterday-660x250.jpg 660w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Today-Greater-Than-Yesterday-450x170.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I still can&#8217;t figure out if it&#8217;s New Year&#8217;s Day or New Years Day. I think it&#8217;s possessive &#8212; The Day that Belongs To The New Year. I&#8217;m going with that but it&#8217;s like my ongoing inability to decide if it is supposed to be Season&#8217;s Greetings or Seasons Greetings. I think it&#8217;s again supposed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29939","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=29939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}