After the week’s long run which frankly was not that long.<\/p>\n
Sitting on the floor. On a pad. Sweating. Stretching. Rolling out a sore rectus femoris<\/em><\/a>. Other Rogue<\/a> runners all around sitting and sweating and stretching and rolling and talking.<\/p>\n They’re all talking. I’m not. I’m in this post-run euphoric zone, happy to just sit and sweat and stretch and roll.<\/p>\n Somewhere to my right two guys are chatting about their training. One is on the floor; the other is standing. They haven’t seen each other in a while, and they’re talking about what’s been going on.<\/p>\n “I had a great run today,” one of them says. “I haven’t run 20 for at least four months.”<\/p>\n I remember a time long ago when 20 was a great run. When seven seemed like a day off. When my body was a machine, albeit a middle-pack machine.\u00a0I remember that, but that’s not me now. Back of the pack Joe<\/em>, I am. And quite content to be there.<\/p>\n Because silently sitting on a pad, sweating and stretching and rolling out sore quads is entirely sufficient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After the week’s long run which frankly was not that long. Sitting on the floor. On a pad. Sweating. Stretching. Rolling out a sore rectus femoris. Other Rogue runners all around sitting and sweating and stretching and rolling and talking. They’re all talking. I’m not. I’m in this post-run euphoric zone, happy to just sit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2945"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2947,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions\/2947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}