{"id":809,"date":"2013-04-22T07:48:12","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T07:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/?p=809"},"modified":"2015-10-11T06:26:23","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T04:26:23","slug":"number-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/2013\/04\/22\/number-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Number Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What stories do the log-book numbers tell? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/files\/2013\/04\/1-Weekly-mileage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-811\" alt=\"1-Weekly mileage\" src=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/files\/2013\/04\/1-Weekly-mileage-300x166.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/files\/2013\/04\/1-Weekly-mileage-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/files\/2013\/04\/1-Weekly-mileage.jpg 622w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Distance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>77 km in the Two Oceans week, 33 easy the next, then 56 and 65 km building to 80+ km longest week. It&#8217;s not a lot by the hero runner standards by it is more than the minimum and just a tiny bit less than what I can handle, I hope.<\/p>\n<p>The tension: Two weeks of longer running left before this years Comrades. The old dilemma returns: I want to do more but I don&#8217;t want to do too much. Just 1 km, even one step can be too much and push me into \u00a0overdoing. overcooking territory. With that too much training flies out the window. I&#8217;m nervous.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Accumulations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Another story is how they add together. All theose kilometers, those training miles, add together. If I don&#8217;t do too many, they&#8217;ll get me to the Comrades&#8217; finish line. They are great enablers those humble, foot on the road steps<\/p>\n<p><strong>More<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The pay-off : \u00a0And then there is the richness of the long running moment. The song of waterfalls, the flap of feet on tar, the belly-filling warmth of the rising sun, a mind unclogged, a soul tuned to the song of the universe, tight,rippling, responsive. And still more &#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What stories do the log-book numbers tell? Distance 77 km in the Two Oceans week, 33 easy the next, then 56 and 65 km building to 80+ km longest week. It&#8217;s not a lot by the hero runner standards by it is more than the minimum and just a tiny bit less than what I [&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":[180,109],"tags":[10,217,15,210,216],"class_list":["post-809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comrades-2013","category-running-experiences","tag-comrades","tag-longest","tag-marathon","tag-week","tag-weekly-mileage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809","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=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1049,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions\/1049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}