{"id":15,"date":"2010-09-01T20:37:33","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T20:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anastasiacheetham.ca\/experiment-of-one\/?p=15"},"modified":"2010-09-29T16:30:30","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T16:30:30","slug":"run-anastasia-run%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/anastasiacheetham.ca\/experiment-of-one\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"Run, Anastasia, Run\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Next month, I will be running in the Toronto Marathon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That looks remarkably impressive up there, doesn’t it? But look closely, there’s more there than meets the eye. You’ll notice that I didn’t say “I will be running a marathon.” It is true, I will<\/em> be running in<\/em> the Toronto Marathon – but I won’t be going the whole<\/em> distance. I’ll be part of a relay team, and I’ll only be running one 5k stretch. A friend at work was trying to put together a team, and I was crazy enough to sign up.<\/p>\n

I have only dabbled occasionally in running, but I have run road races before. My first ever race was a 10k three years ago. \"runners(Some people might wonder at the wisdom of choosing a 10k for a first race: Why not start with a nice easy 5k? Well, this particular 10k runs down Toronto’s Yonge Street<\/a>, which is almost entirely downhill<\/em>. It is billed as one of the fastest 10ks around.) This summer, I did the same course again, as well as a 5k. My times were far from impressive: The first 10k took 1:12:54, and this year even longer (1:19:15). The 5k took 40:26.<\/p>\n

I’m clearly not in this for competitive reasons. So why did<\/em> I run these races? Well, I do believe that setting goals<\/a> is a good thing, and I do enjoy running. But so far, a goal of “run some time” doesn’t seem to be working. But when you commit to something, say, by officially registering for a race, well that’s a whole other story. You have a deadline<\/a>. Deadlines can be great motivators. I know from experience that it works for me. Case in point: Since I’ve committed to this marathon, I’ve actually gone running a couple of time. I’ve learned to go with what works for me.<\/p>\n

So what works for you?<\/p>\n

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Next month, I will be running in the Toronto Marathon. That looks remarkably impressive up there, doesn’t it? But look closely, there’s more there than meets the eye. You’ll notice that I didn’t say “I will be running a marathon.” … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/anastasiacheetham.ca\/experiment-of-one\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/anastasiacheetham.ca\/experiment-of-one\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/anastasiacheetham.ca\/experiment-of-one\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/anastasiacheetham.ca\/experiment-of-one\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/anastasiacheetham.ca\/experiment-of-one\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/anastasiacheetham.ca\/experiment-of-one\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81,"href":"http:\/\/anastasiacheetham.ca\/experiment-of-one\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/anastasiacheetham.ca\/experiment-of-one\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/anastasiacheetham.ca\/experiment-of-one\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/anastasiacheetham.ca\/experiment-of-one\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}