{"id":1965,"date":"2014-12-18T21:55:44","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T05:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/?p=1965"},"modified":"2014-12-18T21:55:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T05:55:44","slug":"get-after-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/get-after-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Get. After. It."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hard work today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/230648012\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/230648012<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is my new favorite run from bSIDE6. I love being about to get on the steep trails and and suffer a little bit during the day. Winter rains are causing the trails to become\u00a0muddy and slippery. I&#8217;m still running in road shoes because of the road approach. I slid a few times descending.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1863-e1418967552183.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1966\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1863-e1418967552183-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1863\" width=\"604\" height=\"805\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It takes me most of the morning to mentally prep for a run like this one. The distance: I need to visualize every section and see myself moving quickly through each one. The weather: if it&#8217;s raining or cold &#8211; I need to prep for being cold and wet and getting muddy. I came back with mud all over my face today. Don&#8217;t know how.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1868.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1968\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1868-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1868\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I took my iPhone in a ziplock bag on my small waist pack today and took a few pictures. There is a natural desire to share experiences, especially\u00a0solo experiences, but it&#8217;s so difficult to stop and take a photo. It slows me down, I get cold &#8211; I worry about capturing what I think would best describe the experience. It&#8217;s impossible. I concluded today that if someone wants to know what it&#8217;s like&#8230; they can read about it, they can ask me, or they can join me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1865.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1967\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1865-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1865\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never lived in a place that is a perpetual state\u00a0decay and growth, but that&#8217;s the best description of the PNW that I can think of &#8211; the forests are dripping with moisture, moss covers everything, decomposed organic matter everywhere, green everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Mile 8 was at a 6:44 pace&#8230; which is fast for me. I was pressing very hard coming back along the Esplanade. I think I scared a woman running as I crossed under the Hawthorne Bridge &#8211; her accoutrement was fitness chic with pearl earrings to match.<\/p>\n<p>I was drooling, face caked with mud, OK if I puked,\u00a0grunting my exhales LOUDLY.<br \/>\nI got after it today. Run happy. Perfect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hard work today. http:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/230648012 This is my new favorite run from bSIDE6. I love being about to get on the steep trails and and suffer a little bit during the day. Winter rains are causing the trails to become\u00a0muddy and slippery. I&#8217;m still running in road shoes because of the road approach. 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