{"id":578,"date":"2010-05-25T13:43:13","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T17:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebay-bride.perception.net\/?p=578"},"modified":"2010-06-07T11:53:16","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T15:53:16","slug":"hip-hip-hooray-i-ran-a-10k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebay-bride.perception.net\/?p=578","title":{"rendered":"Hip Hip Hooray: I ran a 10K!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Had anyone tried to tell me that I would one day run a 10k<\/a>, get blisters on my pinkie toes so bad that I would spend an entire afternoon limping around like an arthritic senior citizen & that I\u2019d like it… I\u2019d have told them to put the pipe down and spend a good week or so sobering up.
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\nBut a few weeks ago, all of those things actually took place. And I felt AMAZING. I\u2019m not kidding. I felt like a freakin\u2019 Super Hero. I didn\u2019t run fast. I didn\u2019t even come close (1 hour & 24 minutes, to be exact). But I did, in fact, run the entirety of the route. I didn\u2019t stop to walk and I enjoyed every single, sweaty moment of it.
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\n\"\"<\/a>Despite the agonizingly early start to my day (an alarm sounding at 5 am is unnecessary at the best of times… nevermind a Sunday morning) and the anxiety-inducing weather forecast (thunderstorms were predicted \u2013 NOT what a girl who\u2019s already got blisters from training wants to hear; wet feet are not a runner\u2019s best friend), the entire experience could not have gone more swimmingly. Well, okay, I could have scored a 48 minute finish. But let\u2019s be realistic.
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\nI can\u2019t imagine a better route for a first time 10Ker than the Sporting Life 10K<\/a> in Toronto. With the exception of a few hundred metres to the contrary, the entire 10 kilometers is DOWNHILL. How brilliant is that? And, in addition to the scores of good-natured folks who line the distance simply to cheer you on, there were live bands positioned along the way as well. And hearing a band break into a Primus song as you\u2019re rounding into the final few kilometers, incidentally, is one HECK of a rallying cry \u2013 Adrenalin Ahoy!
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\nWould I recommend this distraction to a friend? Without question. Would I do it again? Absolutely. In fact, I have another 10k scheduled for the weekend before I say my I Do<\/em>s. Which reminds me: I must invest in some blister-preventing socks so I don\u2019t end up having to hobble down the aisle.
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Had anyone tried to tell me that I would one day run a 10k, get blisters on my pinkie toes so bad that I would spend an entire afternoon limping around like an arthritic senior citizen & that I\u2019d like it… I\u2019d have told them to put the pipe down and spend a good week […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[128,129,126,130,131,127,51],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fab","tag-amazing","tag-awesomeness","tag-blisters","tag-downhill","tag-live-music","tag-primus","tag-sporting-life-10k"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebay-bride.perception.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebay-bride.perception.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebay-bride.perception.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebay-bride.perception.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebay-bride.perception.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ebay-bride.perception.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600,"href":"https:\/\/ebay-bride.perception.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions\/600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebay-bride.perception.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebay-bride.perception.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebay-bride.perception.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}