{"id":1918,"date":"2010-04-16T17:49:26","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T17:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/?p=1918"},"modified":"2010-04-16T17:49:26","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T17:49:26","slug":"friday-feel-good-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/16\/friday-feel-good-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Feel Good Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since I’ve already exceeded my limit for ranting, whining, analyzing, and neuroses this week, I think I’ll send you into the weekend with a bunch of pictures from the seriously AWESOME duathlon two weekends ago.\u00a0 As nitpicky and crazy as I get, I certainly can step back and bask in the awesomeness.<\/p>\n

A year ago, I would not have felt confident in my ability to run and bike back to back to back.\u00a0 I also would have definitely worried about the heat that day.\u00a0 Good thing I trained for a half marathon in the hottest spring\/summer ever last year! …and honestly, I was worried about the bike\/run\/bike thing until I was able to complete the distance two days before.\u00a0 Also, a year ago Zliten would have not joined me.\u00a0 I’m glad he was able to finish the race!<\/p>\n

Two years ago, in addition, I would not have had the endurance yet to run the 1st part of the race (5k), let alone the second and third legs.\u00a0 I would have felt completely out of place and intimidated among the athletes there.\u00a0 Good thing that year I worked my ASS off through long hours and particularly hostile-to-weight-loss situations, and worked on building my running base from barely 2 miles to comfortable at a 10k, and went beyond my comfort zone and entered my first race.\u00a0 And then another.\u00a0 And I was hooked.<\/p>\n

Three years ago, I would have felt self conscious in pants (my uniform was skirts w\/elastic waistbands).\u00a0 I would have been uncomfortable in the heat.\u00a0 Camping probably would have thrown my back out for weeks.\u00a0 I would have felt like the fat girl and stuck out like a sore thumb.\u00a0 I would have nothing to talk about with these people, as I wouldn’t have considered running unless chased and biking was something I hadn’t done since junior high school.\u00a0 Good thing that year I decided to change my life and lose the weight for good even if it took me a long time – and picked up a penchant for all things sweaty as I took off weight and built endurance.<\/p>\n

This year, I went, and felt confident starting, felt comfortable (though awe-inspired) at these crazy distance runner peoples, and finished the race with a respectable time (1:18:45) 3rd to last.<\/p>\n

Next year, 4th to last at least.\u00a0 And at least 1:18:44.<\/p>\n

Now, I present to you, pictures.<\/p>\n

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Have a fantastic and healthy weekend, campers.\u00a0 I’ll do my best to do the same.<\/p>\n

What scary\/cool\/outside your comfort zone thing have you done lately that’s beyond your previous wildest expectations?<\/p>\n

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Since I’ve already exceeded my limit for ranting, whining, analyzing, and neuroses this week, I think I’ll send you into the weekend with a bunch of pictures from the seriously AWESOME duathlon two weekends ago.\u00a0 As nitpicky and crazy as I get, I certainly can step back and bask in the awesomeness. A year ago, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paUhDu-uW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1918"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1921,"href":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions\/1921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}