{"id":360,"date":"2011-03-07T17:40:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T17:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/?p=360"},"modified":"2012-08-31T16:46:41","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T22:46:41","slug":"something-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/?p=360","title":{"rendered":"Something Crazy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Marathon<\/p>\n

Guess what? I have a secret\u2026but I\u2019m going to tell you anyway. I haven\u2019t even told a lot of my friends yet\u2026maybe I\u2019m too nervous! I bought these new shoes for training for a special race. And no, the fact that I have new shoes is not my secret. It\u2019s what race I\u2019m running.<\/p>\n

Maybe I\u2019ll just give you the inside scoop and show you one of my journal entries. You should feel special\u2026not many people get to see inside my diary. *grin*<\/p>\n

\"Marathon<\/p>\n

\"Marathon<\/p>\n

Isn\u2019t that crazy?! I\u2019m going to run a marathon\u202626.2 flipping miles! I\u2019m still in a state of shock that I actually signed up to do this. I feel like I\u2019m half excitement and half nerves. Thoughts like \u201cI wonder if I should be doing this\u201d or \u201cI might be going in over my head\u201d come into my head. But then I excuse them and realize that I CAN DO THIS. Really. Maybe I won\u2019t have the \u201cperfect\u201d time or have a personal best, but whether I come out crawling or half dead I will finish. I\u2019m not a quitter.<\/p>\n

My racing life consists of a 5k and two half marathons. I ran my first half marathon a couple years ago with a time of 2:19. I hadn\u2019t had enough time to train properly for that one, so I had to walk quite a bit. But I didn\u2019t care, because my goal was simply to finish. This is me before the race, not knowing what to expect\u2026so I\u2019m looking very cheerful\u2026with bangs (ah, so glad I got rid of those!) I asked one of my little nieces if she thought this was me and she said, “No, you look funny.” Guess she doesn’t like the bangs either!<\/p>\n

\"Half<\/p>\n

Last year I decided to run another half marathon with my three brothers. My goal was to not stop and walk (except for a couple guzzles of water). I wanted to run the whole thing without a pause, which I did. I hoped to beat the time of the year before, but I actually exceeded it by 6 minutes, which was surprising to me because I never stopped running. But it was an awesome race, and it was funny\u2026before that half marathon I had never cared too much about long-distance running\u2026but suddenly, during that race I found out that I actually do love it! After that race, I wrote in my journal that I wanted to run a real marathon. It felt like a crazy pipe dream.<\/p>\n

\"Half<\/p>\n

And it is a crazy thought\u2026but I\u2019ve signed up for it anyway and I\u2019m going to run it!\u00a0 I\u2019m doing the training whenever I can squeeze it in. I lead an extremely busy life so it\u2019s been a challenge to fit things in, but I\u2019m doing my best.<\/p>\n

Cheer me on! If you want to keep up with the latest update on my marathon training and blog posts, you can subscribe to my feed!<\/a><\/p>\n

Have you ever run a race? If so, how far was it? For any of you marathoners out there, do you have any helpful, long-distance running tips?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guess what? I have a secret\u2026but I\u2019m going to tell you anyway. I haven\u2019t even told a lot of my friends yet\u2026maybe I\u2019m too nervous! I bought these new shoes for training for a special race<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,32,74],"tags":[78,76,77],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3460,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/3460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}