{"id":62,"date":"2012-02-28T20:55:51","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T02:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayearwithoutrunning.com\/?p=62"},"modified":"2012-02-28T20:55:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T02:55:51","slug":"just-let-it-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ayearwithoutrunning.com\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"Just Let it GO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The past couple weeks had me remembering that this &#8220;no running&#8221; experiment is as much a mental game as it is physical.\u00a0 While physically, I hope to achieve a higher level of fitness by trying different workouts and especially by <strong>PICKING UP THOSE WEIGHTS&#8230;<\/strong>mentally I was to try to allow myself a bit more leeway if I couldn&#8217;t get a workout in.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s say that part is going to be much harder to master.<\/p>\n<p>It was about 2 weeks ago that my son came down with strep, and since he would be home from school I wasn&#8217;t going to be able to get my swims in.\u00a0 As Sam got better my husband got sick, meaning I needed to weave in my weekend P90X time around Sam&#8217;s double hockey schedule and somehow, <strong>SOMEHOW <\/strong>get my 2+ hour swim in or else I might I kick down a wall.\u00a0 It&#8217;s this mental anguish when things don&#8217;t go according to plan that I need to resolve.<\/p>\n<p>This past weekend I put myself to a little test.\u00a0 For an early birthday gift my folks paid for me to go visit them in Florida along with my sister for a &#8220;girls weekend&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0 I knew that with my father around, there would be no shortage of workout opportunities, but I also knew if I missed out on some good thrift-store shopping I&#8217;d be more upset!\u00a0 In the layout of the condo there was no room for the P90X workouts so I&#8217;d have to skip a couple days of the program.\u00a0 I made a deal with myself that this was allowed if I repeated the week &amp; managed to get a long swim on Thursday before I left.\u00a0 (The main punishment here being a repeat of that damn plyometrics routine.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m happy to report that I made it through the weekend with few leisurely walks and only a 20 minute swim without steam escaping from my ears.\u00a0 It was all very worth it too, considering the great finds at those stores!\u00a0 Who can argue with a $12 Lily Pulitzer dress?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past couple weeks had me remembering that this &#8220;no running&#8221; experiment is as much a mental game as it is physical.\u00a0 While physically, I hope to achieve a higher level of fitness by trying different workouts and especially by PICKING UP THOSE WEIGHTS&#8230;mentally I was to try to allow myself a bit more leeway [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayearwithoutrunning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayearwithoutrunning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayearwithoutrunning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayearwithoutrunning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayearwithoutrunning.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayearwithoutrunning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayearwithoutrunning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayearwithoutrunning.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayearwithoutrunning.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayearwithoutrunning.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}