{"id":1066,"date":"2022-06-08T12:02:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T18:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/homeSite\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2022-06-09T12:27:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T18:27:44","slug":"first-5k-in-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/homeSite\/?p=1066","title":{"rendered":"First 5k in years!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ok, well, not really. I&#8217;m sure Sandy and I have hiked way over 3.1 miles at once in our adventures. But this was the first time in well over 3 decades that I actually set out with the goal to walk a 5k. I went to the rec center and walked 39 laps on the indoor track for a total of 3.1 miles in 56 minutes and 6 seconds&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ok, that&#8217;s slightly off my best time of 18 minutes and 20 seconds but I&#8217;m somewhere around 3 times as old as I was then. This is still progress. A scant couple of years ago, I don&#8217;t know that I could have made it the 39 laps. That and my time can only get better, LOL. The sad truth is that my ankles were never really meant to be a runner and as I&#8217;ve gotten older I just don&#8217;t feel like taxing them to see how fast I can go. I&#8217;ve very satisfied that they just go:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, well, not really. I&#8217;m sure Sandy and I have hiked way over 3.1 miles at once in our adventures. But this was the first time in well over 3 decades that I actually set out with the goal to walk a 5k. I went to the rec center and walked 39 laps on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/homeSite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/homeSite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/homeSite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/homeSite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/homeSite\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/homeSite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1067,"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/homeSite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions\/1067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/homeSite\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/homeSite\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/homeSite\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}