{"id":32578,"date":"2019-07-17T13:01:01","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T17:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=32578"},"modified":"2019-07-17T13:01:01","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T17:01:01","slug":"noisy-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=32578","title":{"rendered":"Noisy Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve taken some \u201cme\u201d time. Which is insane because it\u2019s almost always \u201cme\u201d time. I mean, this is a website all about me. So who am I to be saying, \u201cya know what? I\u2019m a little tired of \u201cme\u201d\u2026 I\u2019m going to take a break from \u201cme\u201d and maybe spend some time with \u201cme.\u201d That\u2019s I think one of those definitions of insanity, like banging your head against a wall or trying to go to Disney World during Easter.<\/p>\n

I spent part of the past few weeks licking the proverbial wounds and dealing with the ravages of time, mileage, and foolishness. Opting against a rage, rage of verbiage on the website, a wallow here and there, I spent time writing false letters to friends long lost, ex loves, and the person at 1601 Pennsylvania Avenue asking about the neighbors. Those files, that prose, were ravings that should not be seen and so, as I have often done in the past with such things, they have been crumpled and tossed aside. Did it help? Well\u2026.
\nWhile I\u2019ve rehabilitated some of my aches and pains in the last few weeks, the ball of my foot remains\u2026 troublesome. Persnickity. Like a giant rock is just under my foot at all times, a glob of hardened cement. I know I\u2019ve written loads about this in my rambling way but since it\u2019s still an issue, I figure I\u2019ll do a bit of online sleuthing to see what\u2019s what.<\/p>\n

I think it might be a bursitis\u2026 a phrase I\u2019ve heard but don\u2019t really know what it means. Like the difference between a calzone and a stromboli or what is \u201chappiness\u201d really. A quick google search on a bursitis treatment recommends the usual RICE \u2013 rest, ice, compression, elevation \u2013 and in one instance of how to treat the situation when one is \u201can athlete.\u201d I\u2019m not so sure I can rightly call myself an athlete, but my exercise of choice is running\u2026 which makes this bullet point a real roller coaster corkscrew:<\/p>\n

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In any case, I\u2019ve been trying to get back out there and run. As I\u2019ve posted over the last few days, I\u2019m headed to the land down under to try and run the Outback Marathon\u2026 again but for the first time. I\u2019m struggling with putting together an 8 mile run which is, for you math nuts, less than a third of a marathon\u2026 which means if I\u2019m tired after 8 miles, how am I going to handle another 18 thereafter?
\nIt\u2019s been hot and humid here in Florida, with temperatures hovering around mid-90s and the heat index often creeping into the triple digits. My headphones, the free ones they give me on international flights or charge $2 for on domestics, short circuited out thanks to the rivers of water that cascading out of me on a run. So I decided to go without music for a few weeks of training.
\nI usually train with my iPod on my daily runs but then go without music for actual races. I like to hear the world around me on the 26.2 miles but find as I run the same old, same old training routes that the music helps drown out the people-y world, the cars, the noise of life.<\/p>\n

And thus while I went sans-music of late on my out and back morning runs, I was reminded that there is no such thing as the sound of silence when running. There is the whooshing Doppler Effect of cars speeding down the road (and I do mean speeding \u2013 it\u2019s supposed to be 45 mph on the main road I run yet there are times it seems like drivers feel they\u2019re on the autobahn or auditioning for the latest Vin Diesel movie). There\u2019s chirping of birds, the frantic footfalls of rabid squirrels, the rustle of trees in the wind\u2026 though recently there hasn\u2019t been much wind \u2013 the humidity just hangs there, as if the air was more a gelatinous mold and I were a piece of fruit trapped in a viscous nightmare.<\/p>\n

And then there\u2019s the weirdly unsteady footfalls. I can tell my gait is off, not only because there are times when the ball of my foot questions every life decision that brought me to this point of asking it to do something. But the sound of each thud as I pound the pavement is off-key, off tempo. The music of the run is wrong, as if a 45 single was played at 33 rpm.
\nWhat this means for Australia, I can only guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve taken some \u201cme\u201d time. Which is insane because it\u2019s almost always \u201cme\u201d time. I mean, this is a website all about me. So who am I to be saying, \u201cya know what? I\u2019m a little tired of \u201cme\u201d\u2026 I\u2019m going to take a break from \u201cme\u201d and maybe spend some time with \u201cme.\u201d That\u2019s […]<\/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-32578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32578","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=32578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}