{"id":38219,"date":"2020-11-20T09:26:09","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T14:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=38219"},"modified":"2020-11-20T09:26:09","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T14:26:09","slug":"and-on-the-50th-day-i-went-the-distance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=38219","title":{"rendered":"And on the 50th day, I went the distance…"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Dateline: November 19, 2020.

After a tough, tough summer both globally and personally, I’ve been trying to get back into shape. Physical therapy has been a two steps forward, three steps back, a few steps forward, one or two steps back.\u00a0 It’s been a slog.\u00a0 I’ve been down and depressed and demotivated. And the global pandemic, political instability, and overall malaise hasn’t helped.<\/p>\r\n

My go-to stress relief, running, had become a multiplier of pain.<\/p>\r\n

Races I had signed up for were cancelled or moved to virtual options or impossible to reach out of social responsibility to socially distance and minimize travel.<\/p>\r\n

And then a few months back one of those multi-day race organizers sent out a virtual challenge<\/a>.\u00a0 Run the 50 states virtually by running on 50 days.<\/p>\r\n

The Mainly Marathon team dubbed it “The Glitch” in honor of 2020.\u00a0 I suppose that’s better than calling it “The Dumpster Fire.”<\/p>\r\n

\"\"<\/a>It was slated to run from October 1, 2020 through February 28, 2021.\u00a0 I decided to use it was a recovery training plan and commit to running for 50 days straight.<\/p>\r\n

I was consistently inconsistent.\u00a0 Distances ranged typically and inexplicably between 5Ks and 10Ks.\u00a0 I occasionally did a half marathon distance.\u00a0 They were rough gos, no matter if it was 3.1 miles or 13.1.\u00a0 MY times were awful… but I kept to the schedule.\u00a0 I’d try and psyche myself up for a marathon distance on a weekend only to peter out to a 5K.<\/p>\r\n

But I kept going… and going… and going.<\/p>\r\n

And on the 50th day, I decided to mark the day with a marathon distance.<\/p>\r\n

It wasn’t pretty.\u00a0 It wasn’t as fast as my best times.\u00a0 But like Rocky Balboa in the original Oscar winning boxing saga, I went the distance.<\/p>\r\n

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Dateline: November 19, 2020. After a tough, tough summer both globally and personally, I’ve been trying to get back into shape. Physical therapy has been a two steps forward, three steps back, a few steps forward, one or two steps back.\u00a0 It’s been a slog.\u00a0 I’ve been down and depressed and demotivated. And the global […]<\/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-38219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38219","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=38219"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38227,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38219\/revisions\/38227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}