{"id":44305,"date":"2026-03-29T16:08:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T20:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=44305"},"modified":"2026-03-29T16:08:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T20:08:42","slug":"week-4-longer-and-longer-slower-and-slower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=44305","title":{"rendered":"Week 4: Longer and longer, slower and slower&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Increased mileage but unfortunately during my long 13-mile &#8220;run&#8221; this weekend there was a lot of walking.\u00a0 I was very slow&#8230; averaging close to ten minute mile paces with only a half marathon distance&#8230; which means a 4:30 marathon pace at best I think.\u00a0 Not great.\u00a0 Not great at all.<\/p>\r\n<p>But that&#8217;s what the training is for, I suppose.\u00a0 At least in some respects.\u00a0 It&#8217;s mainly to build back up the skeletal endurance and avoid current\/future stress fractures.\u00a0 But gosh do I wish I could get some cardio and speed back as well.\u00a0 It&#8217;s disheartening in more ways than one.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Increased mileage but unfortunately during my long 13-mile &#8220;run&#8221; this weekend there was a lot of walking.\u00a0 I was very slow&#8230; averaging close to ten minute mile paces with only a half marathon distance&#8230; which means a 4:30 marathon pace at best I think.\u00a0 Not great.\u00a0 Not great at all. But that&#8217;s what the training [&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-44305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44305","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=44305"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44309,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44305\/revisions\/44309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}