{"id":8746,"date":"2017-02-02T18:04:42","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T23:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=8746"},"modified":"2017-02-02T18:04:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T23:04:42","slug":"groundhog-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=8746","title":{"rendered":"Groundhog Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Given that it’s Groundhog Day and therefore I should repeat things, seriously, does anybody have an aspirin?<\/p>\n

Aside from that, I suppose I should take a page from Edge of Tomorrow, and Live, Run, Repeat.<\/p>\n

So despite not feeling great, I laced up my shoes and got out the door.\u00a0 Maybe I should have taken this as a rest day but the truth is I’m “resting” tomorrow and not running.\u00a0 I’m driving a lot, but I’m not running.\u00a0 And I’m not a streak runner by any stretch of the imagination<\/a> but I do try and get out the door as much as I can.<\/p>\n

Sometimes we have to do things that are hard.\u00a0 Sometimes we have to do things we don’t really want to do but need to do.\u00a0 It’s true in running and it’s true in life.\u00a0 If I felt this way during a race, I’d do my damndest to get to the finish line.\u00a0 I’d scrape, crawl, and push.\u00a0 And there may be sometimes when one shouldn’t… but more often than not, quitting can be far worse than pushing through.\u00a0 It’s a judgment call, when to push and when to call it a day… but in the end, I’m usually happier to have done something than to have not.<\/p>\n

So it was that I went out today to do the run.\u00a0 It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.\u00a0 I was slow but I at least finished the route.\u00a0 I hit just about every red light imaginable, was nearly hit by three different cars at three different crosswalks (I had the right of way each time — a white-ish walking man indicating so).\u00a0 But I made it there and back again.\u00a0 I didn’t quit.\u00a0 And though I’m still not feeling great even with the endorphin boost, I’m no worse for sure.\u00a0 So there’s no harm or foul.<\/p>\n

Besides, when I open my email inbox and see this, I’m reminded why I keep going out that door, pounding the pavement.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

It’s a privilege and an honor.\u00a0 And I need to remember that when I’m feeling down and depressed about health, politics, life, existence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Given that it’s Groundhog Day and therefore I should repeat things, seriously, does anybody have an aspirin? Aside from that, I suppose I should take a page from Edge of Tomorrow, and Live, Run, Repeat. So despite not feeling great, I laced up my shoes and got out the door.\u00a0 Maybe I should have taken […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8746","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=8746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}