{"id":894,"date":"2014-04-15T15:09:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/?p=894"},"modified":"2014-04-15T15:09:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T23:09:00","slug":"low-gravity-in-the-fortress-of-solitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/low-gravity-in-the-fortress-of-solitude\/","title":{"rendered":"Low gravity in the fortress of solitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mile 5 in particular; \u00a0zip zip &#8211; \u00a0I attribute it to the lunar eclipse (and the training effect).<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/130644626\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/130644626<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The end of last week through the weekend my motivation was in a lil&#8217; dip. I decided to take Saturday off and not try to push a long run (&gt;15m) on Sunday. I think it was the right move and had a snappy 8 miler on Sunday morning. \u00a0Still ended up north of 30 miles for the week, but I&#8217;m not sure I had the right mix of runs. It could be that I&#8217;m just still a little degraded from the race 2 weeks ago; so I&#8217;m not going to worry about it too much.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-896\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-04-15 at 4.04.15 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Screen-Shot-2014-04-15-at-4.04.15-PM-1024x319.png\" width=\"604\" height=\"188\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I call this section &#8220;the haymaker&#8221;. The grade is somewhere between 20 and 30 %. It&#8217;s kinda like getting punched in the stomach. Best not to look at the top of the hill from the bottom &#8211; it&#8217;s just demotivating.<\/p>\n<p>V02max is on the rise. Yay genetics (thanks mom and dad).<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Screen-Shot-2014-04-15-at-4.21.16-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-904\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-04-15 at 4.21.16 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Screen-Shot-2014-04-15-at-4.21.16-PM.png\" width=\"422\" height=\"484\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QK8mJJJvaes]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mile 5 in particular; \u00a0zip zip &#8211; \u00a0I attribute it to the lunar eclipse (and the training effect). http:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/130644626 The end of last week through the weekend my motivation was in a lil&#8217; dip. I decided to take Saturday off and not try to push a long run (&gt;15m) on Sunday. I think it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sartor-resartus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}