{"id":1604,"date":"2010-03-09T11:34:52","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T18:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valianthosting.ca\/clients\/daemon\/?p=1604"},"modified":"2010-03-09T11:34:52","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T18:34:52","slug":"walk-vs-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/?p=1604","title":{"rendered":"Walk vs. Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past few weeks I&#8217;ve been babbling, blogging,\u00a0scribbling on Facebook and Tweeting about my plans to register for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.runningroom.com\" target=\"_blank\">Running Room<\/a> walking clinic\u00a0later this month.\u00a0It&#8217;s been a pretty common topic of conversation for me for a while.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve changed my mind.<\/p>\n<p>This morning I registered for the <em>Learn to Run<\/em> clinic instead. My end goal has always been to be able to run. In fact, my end fitness goal for this whole she-bang is to be able to run a marathon. Of course, I&#8217;m going to start with smaller distances and work my way up to the 26 mile monstrosity. I haven&#8217;t completely lost my mind. Yet.<\/p>\n<p>Since I&#8217;ve managed to work my way from walking 1km to 5km in an hour in the last 2 months all on my own, I&#8217;m pretty sure I&#8217;ll eventually be able to increase my walking distance to 10km without needing to attend a clinic first.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t yet hurt myself walking and it&#8217;s pretty easy to keep myself motivated when it comes to putting one foot in front of the other at a walking pace.<\/p>\n<p>Running is a completely different story. I know I&#8217;ll need to learn lots in order to ensure I don&#8217;t increase the existing damage to my knees and ankles.\u00a0\u00a0It won&#8217;t hurt how to properly dress for the weather and eat for training, etc.<\/p>\n<p>My upcoming goal is to run\/walk my way through the 5km at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlebigrun.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Little Big Run<\/a> in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past few weeks I&#8217;ve been babbling, blogging,\u00a0scribbling on Facebook and Tweeting about my plans to register for a Running Room walking clinic\u00a0later this month.\u00a0It&#8217;s been a pretty common topic of conversation for me for a while. I&#8217;ve changed my mind. This morning I registered for the Learn to Run clinic instead. My end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-leaf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1604"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1606,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions\/1606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}