{"id":46,"date":"2007-05-23T16:16:26","date_gmt":"2007-05-23T16:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/23\/i-ran-a-mile-today\/"},"modified":"2007-05-23T16:16:26","modified_gmt":"2007-05-23T16:16:26","slug":"i-ran-a-mile-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/23\/i-ran-a-mile-today\/","title":{"rendered":"I ran a mile today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in my life, ever, I managed to run continuously for a mile today! Even as an athletic teenager, I could <strong>never <\/strong>run a mile without walking.\u00a0 Actually, it was a little over a mile, 4 times round the block (which is 430m) makes 1,720m.\u00a0 I did this in 10 minutes 10 seconds.\u00a0 Hardly a fast time, and gives me a time for the mile (1,609m) of 9 minutes 32 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>If you recall, my target for the last Athletic Skill Level 1 exercise, was run 1 mile in 9 minutes.\u00a0 I&#8217;m 5% too slow!\u00a0 But that&#8217;s ok, I&#8217;ve got past that psychological barrier and I now know I can do it.\u00a0 Oddly, it was the 3rd lap that was the hardest to keep going, I soooo wanted just to walk, the last lap was easier as I know that I only had that next little bit to go.<\/p>\n<p>However, now is the big count down.\u00a0 I started Crossfit on the 1st Feb 2007, and gave myself a 4 month target to get to Level 1 standard.\u00a0 Now I have to shave 32 seconds off my time by a week on Friday to meet the deadling of 4 months exactly!\u00a0 The plan is to have another crack at it on Wednesday 30th May, leaving a days rest till the 1st June if I don&#8217;t make it.<\/p>\n<p>One of the Crossfit slogans is: &#8220;Stronger, Fitter, Faster.&#8221;\u00a0 I know I&#8217;m stronger, and today has proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that I&#8217;m the fitest I&#8217;ve ever been in my life, now I just need to work on the Faster.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in my life, ever, I managed to run continuously for a mile today! Even as an athletic teenager, I could never run a mile without walking.\u00a0 Actually, it was a little over a mile, 4 times round the block (which is 430m) makes 1,720m.\u00a0 I did this in 10 minutes 10 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-46","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-crossfit","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}