{"id":149,"date":"2005-12-17T13:04:12","date_gmt":"2005-12-17T17:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2005\/12\/17\/on-running\/"},"modified":"2006-04-28T00:21:03","modified_gmt":"2006-04-28T07:21:03","slug":"on-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2005\/12\/17\/on-running\/","title":{"rendered":"On Running"},"content":{"rendered":"

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People.\u00a0 I love my running group.\u00a0 I love the interaction with other runners.\u00a0 Interating with strangers is rare in\u00a0LA’s car-centric culture.\u00a0 I talked to the most fascinating\u00a0engineer during my run today.\u00a0 He\u00a0saved\u00a0money for two years as an\u00a0undergrad in order to travel for 19 months through Australia, Asia and Europe before begining his career.\u00a0 So cool.\u00a0 Anyways, I made a general comment about how the last two miles are always tough.\u00a0 The girl behind me commented that I was talking, which was a good\u00a0sign I wasn’t overexerting myself.\u00a0 The guy next to me, a story developer for Disney,\u00a0said, “Yeah, you sound\u00a0totally relaxed, and have for most of the run.”\u00a0 This prompted me to ask if that\u00a0was his\u00a0polite way of saying I’ve been chattering non-stop for four hours and may want to think about stopping?\u00a0 Laughter ensued, although sadly\u00a0no one denied the charge.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Excercise.\u00a0 It’s good for you.\u00a0 Although maybe not so good for your joints and stuff, but nothing’s perfect.<\/p>\n

Food.\u00a0 More exercise means more eating.\u00a0 (This may also be why I don’t appear to be losing any weight.)\u00a0 Plus, I secretly like food in bar form and running gives me an excuse to eat food bars with minimal guilt.<\/p>\n

Accomplishment.\u00a0 It’s nice to know you’ve burned a day’s worth of calories before many people have even gotten out of bed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Improvement.\u00a0 It’s amazing how quickly your endurance and speed improve when you’re running.\u00a0 This is in contrast to the many other things I’ve done and shown no improvement in (five years of piano lessons, a sad attempt at tennis, three snowboarding trips, some sad skating – actually, this list is getting depressing, so I’m just going to stop now).<\/p>\n

Apparel.\u00a0 Running clothes are cute.\u00a0 My\u00a0black running shorts with the red and\u00a0yellow piping on the side are adorable.\u00a0 And I have a nifty running hat.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Conversation starter.\u00a0 It’s nice to have a response\u00a0other than “napping” when people ask if one has a hobby.<\/p>\n

(FYI – My twenty mile run was GREAT today, which made me think about why I love running.\u00a0 Hence this particular post.)\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

People.\u00a0 I love my running group.\u00a0 I love the interaction with other runners.\u00a0 Interating with strangers is rare in\u00a0LA’s car-centric culture.\u00a0 I talked to the most fascinating\u00a0engineer during my run today.\u00a0 He\u00a0saved\u00a0money for two years as an\u00a0undergrad in order to travel for 19 months through Australia, Asia and Europe before begining his career.\u00a0 So cool.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-run-y-run"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}