{"id":1488,"date":"2002-10-11T10:02:00","date_gmt":"2002-10-11T15:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2002\/10\/11\/1488\/"},"modified":"2021-04-12T13:00:12","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T21:00:12","slug":"1488","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2002\/10\/11\/1488\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Things I Hate About Running<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The way I <a href=\"\/nfd\/2002\/02\/19\/1578\/\">look<\/a> afterwards.\n<\/li>\n<li>Fucking <i>gnats<\/i>.\n<\/li>\n<li>My legs hurt all the time. It&#8217;s my own fault, obviously, for running five days a week. I&#8217;m building new muscle, too, which is kind of a novelty, but I think a lot of it is the fact that I&#8217;m running on concrete instead of grass. I wish there were something I could do about that. I am alone in my circle of acquaintances in that I&#8217;ve had good knees for most of my life, and I&#8217;d rather not lose them now.\n<\/li>\n<li>Uphills.\n<\/li>\n<li>Forgetting my towel for my shower afterwards. I&#8217;ve done it so frequently now that I finally taped a sign to the bathroom door to remind me. Running about naked is all well and good, but who wants to drip all over the linoleum?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Things I Love About Running<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The dachshunds in somebody&#8217;s back yard at my end-of-West Lexington turnaround. They&#8217;re always very excited and concerned to see me, even though I&#8217;ve been coming by almost daily for a month.They remind me of our dachshund, Fritzi, who died a couple years ago and who had one of the most expressive faces I&#8217;ve ever seen.\n<\/li>\n<li>Downhills. The dip between St. Mildreds and Fifth Street is awful on the way up, but on the way down coming back it&#8217;s like an obstacle course&#8211;a lot of head-level tree limbs and street signs to tap. Also, I&#8217;m one of a select group of people the world over who really understand how to run downhill, so I can really cut loose (the secret is to go ahead and start falling, and trust your legs to catch up).\n<\/li>\n<li>Showers afterwards, which I like to start pretty hot and end icy. I feel like I&#8217;m running on auto a lot lately, so the shock of awareness that comes with the cold water is a rare and beautiful thing.\n<\/li>\n<li>And speaking of cold water: running in the rain. I got to do that yesterday, and it ranks high on the list of Best Things There Is. It was <i>hard<\/i> rain, too, like of significantly higher humidity than your average pond. My clothes haven&#8217;t dried yet.\n<p>Since yesterday I&#8217;ve been trying to quantify exactly what it is about running in the rain that&#8217;s so great, and I&#8217;ve yet to come up with anything concrete. It&#8217;s a certain I don&#8217;t know what.<\/p>\n<p>Partly it&#8217;s that you stay cool and your mouth doesn&#8217;t dry out, and partly it&#8217;s the feeling that you&#8217;re fighting something other than gravity and yourself, and partly it&#8217;s just the sense of abandon you get from realizing that it doesn&#8217;t matter how wet you are because you&#8217;re just going to get wetter. Maybe it&#8217;s the ozone. Or maybe it&#8217;s just that you get to look at the torrents of water and the mud and the clouds, and think &#8220;what kind of maniac would be out in this weather?&#8221; and then think &#8220;oh, yeah, <i>me<\/i>.&#8221;\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Things I Love AND Hate About Running<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Schrodinger Point. There&#8217;s a day, about every couple weeks or so, when I realize I&#8217;ve just jogged almost my entire route without taking a break. It&#8217;s cool because, well, it means I&#8217;m stronger and faster and in better shape than I have been in a while. It&#8217;s simultaneously <i>totally uncool<\/i>, because it means I&#8217;m going to have to run longer or faster my next time out. Thus <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtnmath.com\/faq\/meas-qm-3.html\">Schrodinger Point<\/a>: it exists in both states at the same time! (This isn&#8217;t technically what Schrodinger was describing, but in this case accuracy is discarded in favor of sounding cool.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tonight: Elvis Costello!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stlyrics.com\/lyrics\/highfidelity\/shipbuilding.htm\"><i>with all the will in the world<br \/>\ndiving for dear life<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things I Hate About Running The way I look afterwards. Fucking gnats. My legs hurt all the time. It&#8217;s my own fault, obviously, for running five days a week. I&#8217;m building new muscle, too, which is kind of a novelty, but I think a lot of it is the fact that I&#8217;m running on concrete [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running","category-slang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3497,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions\/3497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}