{"id":9736,"date":"2019-09-30T13:47:33","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T17:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?p=9736"},"modified":"2021-01-26T12:53:39","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T17:53:39","slug":"gimme-three-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?p=9736","title":{"rendered":"Gimme Three Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3980\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3980\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_1384.jpg\" alt=\"gimme three steps\" class=\"wp-image-9702\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3980\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">No place better to leave your troubles than a trail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I got out for a run today.  It had been too long again.  I hadn&#8217;t run since the first of the month.  29 days between runs is probably too long of a recovery period.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a 3-mile trail loop 1 mile from my house.  I can take a few streets through a nice neighborhood to run there.  But running through those streets annoys me, bores me, demotivates me.  So I&#8217;ve been driving the 1 mile over to the trail and parking my car on the street.  I do the 3-mile loop and drive back home.<\/p>\n<p>This is what I did yesterday and it felt so good.  Aerobically it killed me for the first 15 minutes.  But, man, it did my spirit a world of good!  Three steps down that trail and I already felt the cares falling off my shoulders.  You know it&#8217;s been too long since your last run when the feel of dirt under your feet brings happy tears to your eyes.<\/p>\n<p>I need to get back to more regular running.  I still have big running goals to achieve.  Today I&#8217;m just happy to have gotten a few miles in.<\/p>\n<p>Hat tip to Lynyrd Skynyrd from whom I&#8217;ve stolen the title for this post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got out for a run today. It had been too long again. I hadn&#8217;t run since the first of the month. 29 days between runs is probably too long of a recovery period. There&#8217;s a 3-mile trail loop 1 mile from my house. I can take a few streets through a nice neighborhood to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?p=9736\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gimme Three Steps&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9736"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10087,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9736\/revisions\/10087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}