{"id":1013,"date":"2013-07-02T10:47:35","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T08:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/?p=1013"},"modified":"2015-10-11T06:25:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T04:25:54","slug":"so-back-to-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/2013\/07\/02\/so-back-to-running\/","title":{"rendered":"So &#8230; back to running"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After this morning&#8217;s run, there&#8217;s no doubt I&#8217;ll always be a runner<\/p>\n<p>Fabulous run.\u00a0Not for recovery from the 2013 Comrades, nor for something like Comrades, as all the runs before 2 June were: committed, thought-through, after-analysed, all trying to build the right stuff to\u00a0handle the monsters on the day and get through those tricky\u00a054 miles distance, those 87 km of hills and heat &#8211; plus the walk to the start and trying to find the car afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>So a 05:30 \u00a0run \u00a0under a bit of moon, a few stars through a lot of streetlight pushing back the dark, just for the sake of running.<\/p>\n<p>The power in my legs surged, made me hop, laugh and whistle; race oncoming cars across three lanes. And laugh again.\u00a0Boundless running on bounding legs. Just love it.<\/p>\n<p>And as I ran this Comrades culmination thing, this targeted, planned, focused, then made-real thing, bubbled and spurted, thrilling, filling, spilling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After this morning&#8217;s run, there&#8217;s no doubt I&#8217;ll always be a runner Fabulous run.\u00a0Not for recovery from the 2013 Comrades, nor for something like Comrades, as all the runs before 2 June were: committed, thought-through, after-analysed, all trying to build the right stuff to\u00a0handle the monsters on the day and get through those tricky\u00a054 miles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions\/1026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}