{"id":645,"date":"2021-04-23T11:15:05","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T15:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/?p=645"},"modified":"2021-06-28T18:42:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T22:42:05","slug":"getting-faster-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/2021\/04\/getting-faster-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting faster again?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I ran a timed mile at the Smith College track at the 3-month mark (March 9th) and again a few days ago, but alas I just used the Fitbit stopwatch, forgetting that it doesn&#8217;t save to the dashboard. I&#8217;m sure both were under 11 minutes and pretty sure the most recent one was 10:48 or so, which is better than January&#8217;s speed. More time since the surgery may be helping, but also I&#8217;ve been rigorous about doing the <a href=\"https:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/05\/09\/the-scientific-7-minute-workout\/\">7-minute workout<\/a> every day since late January, followed by pull-ups. I&#8217;ve done strength workouts off and on before but never kept it up for very long. It&#8217;s even more important as I age, and now that I have a long streak going in the phone app it&#8217;s much easier to want to continue that investment. Apps creating external accountability really work for me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m half-vaxxed (second Pfizer next Wednesday) and looking forward to May when I&#8217;ll be fully vaccinated and will start ramping up to marathon training. I&#8217;ll stick to my same Non-Runner&#8217;s Marathon Trainer schedule; it&#8217;s worked so well in the past, why mess with a good thing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ran a timed mile at the Smith College track at the 3-month mark (March 9th) and again a few days ago, but alas I just used the Fitbit stopwatch, forgetting that it doesn&#8217;t save to the dashboard. I&#8217;m sure both were under 11 minutes and pretty sure the most recent one was 10:48 or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":647,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions\/647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}