{"id":536,"date":"2011-08-30T04:00:50","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T04:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/?p=536"},"modified":"2015-10-11T06:27:55","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T04:27:55","slug":"ultras-and-rationality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/2011\/08\/30\/ultras-and-rationality\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultras and rationality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Running has a logic that is simple rational and gets you where you want to go.<\/p>\n<p>It is possible to apply a rational logic to what can appear to be an irrational activity. The logic of running doesn&#8217;t require irrationality because the activity of ultra-running can appear irrational.<\/p>\n<p>In any event all it takes to change ultra-running to a rational activity is to extend the context in which to judge it \u00a0far enough. That which in normal terms looks irrational, becomes, on a grander stage, rational.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes when running you have to remind yourself of this. Sometimes deep in training you have to take a deep breath and remind yourself of this. Sometimes deep in a long run, you should forget all this and focus on running.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Running has a logic that is simple rational and gets you where you want to go. It is possible to apply a rational logic to what can appear to be an irrational activity. The logic of running doesn&#8217;t require irrationality because the activity of ultra-running can appear irrational. In any event all it takes to [&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":[145],"tags":[10,156,15,23],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-getting-the-most-out-of-training","tag-comrades","tag-logic","tag-marathon","tag-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","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=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}