{"id":57,"date":"1999-07-06T12:00:02","date_gmt":"1999-07-06T20:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/1999\/07\/06\/triathlon-epiphany\/"},"modified":"2007-04-25T20:59:15","modified_gmt":"2007-04-26T04:59:15","slug":"triathlon-epiphany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/1999\/07\/06\/triathlon-epiphany\/","title":{"rendered":"Triathlon: Epiphany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something occurred to me last night as I slogged through a treadmill workout.<strong><em> It has to get better.<\/em><\/strong> That is, if I do this often enough, it <strong><em>will<\/em><\/strong> get easier. All I have to do is keep doing the same thing. I never really thought about it that way, that soon (I hope), running 3 miles will not be tiring and bothersome, but a matter of course.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nJust that thought is enough to motivate me back to the treadmill.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nI&#8217;m running into interesting obstacles as far as running goes. My aerobic endurance, inhaler-enhanced, is now okay. I can get through the workout without panting and wheezing. The next two challenges are my muscle endurance and my mental endurance. I can see the muscle endurance beginning to improve, although there&#8217;s still a long way to go. The obstacle I didn&#8217;t expect was the mental one &#8211; which lasts even when I&#8217;m breathing okay and my muscles aren&#8217;t sore. I still feel like stopping, and I&#8217;m not sure why. It could be because I&#8217;m bored, perhaps. Anyway, I need to keep an eye on that problem and try to force myself beyond it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something occurred to me last night as I slogged through a treadmill workout. It has to get better. That is, if I do this often enough, it will get easier. All I have to do is keep doing the same thing. I never really thought about it that way, that soon (I hope), running 3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-triathlon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}