{"id":32298,"date":"2019-06-01T19:33:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T23:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=32298"},"modified":"2019-06-01T19:33:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T23:33:14","slug":"the-long-road-to-the-blue-ridge-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=32298","title":{"rendered":"The Long Road to the Blue Ridge Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With stops due to traffic snarls and or food and fuel, it was a 14 hour marathon drive today, a bit longer than GoogleMaps said at 4:30 this morning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot_20190601-042828_Maps.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-32302\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot_20190601-042828_Maps-142x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"142\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot_20190601-042828_Maps-142x300.jpg 142w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot_20190601-042828_Maps-768x1621.jpg 768w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot_20190601-042828_Maps-485x1024.jpg 485w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot_20190601-042828_Maps-660x1393.jpg 660w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot_20190601-042828_Maps-450x950.jpg 450w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot_20190601-042828_Maps.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 142px) 100vw, 142px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The highway hypnosis inherent in driving at speed on stretches of a road vanishing in the distance is compounded by the shifting sands of time, a double whammy that uncovers memories long lost.\u00a0 Emerging from the buried subconscious, such memories can be good, bad or neutral&#8230; but rarely indifferent.<\/p>\n<p>The past plays tricks on the present, on the mind.\u00a0 And since I&#8217;ve made this drive to start a seven day race series tomorrow, the impact on mental focus will reverberate for days of marathons.\u00a0 At times of peak physical fitness, a loss of focus or drowning in a mental quick sand can make any race extremely trying; when nursing a lingering injury, it can make fatigue and physical maladies downright debilitating.<\/p>\n<p>In an effort to minimize the thunderstorms forecast for late morning tomorrow, I&#8217;m taking the early start at 5 am.\u00a0 So I&#8217;ll know soon enough what I&#8217;m looking at.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve often malapropriated the quote as &#8220;Fortune Favors The Dumb.&#8221;\u00a0 May tomorrow make it so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With stops due to traffic snarls and or food and fuel, it was a 14 hour marathon drive today, a bit longer than GoogleMaps said at 4:30 this morning. The highway hypnosis inherent in driving at speed on stretches of a road vanishing in the distance is compounded by the shifting sands of time, a [&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-32298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32298","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=32298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}