{"id":383,"date":"2014-01-30T11:01:45","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T16:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/?p=383"},"modified":"2014-01-30T11:01:45","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T16:01:45","slug":"five-points-of-life-my-next-half-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/?p=383","title":{"rendered":"Five Points of Life &#8211; my next half marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking for a half marathon to run in February &#8211; one that was close by and one that I hadn&#8217;t done before, so I \u00a0started a search. \u00a0On halfmarathons.net, I found the <a title=\"Five Points of Life\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fivepointsoflife.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Five Points of Life Marathon and Half Marathon<\/a>. \u00a0This one is in Gainesville, which is just a couple of hours North of Orlando. \u00a0It also takes place on a long holiday weekend, so I decided to make a weekend out of it.<\/p>\n<p>My last half marathon was the Disney World Half. \u00a0I was so behind on my training that I decided to do 1:1 mile:walk intervals. \u00a0That worked okay, but I had a slow time (3:12) and was really sore afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>For this half marathon, I have started doing one hour tempo runs one day a week and ever longer LSD runs one day a week. \u00a0I should be up to 10 miles on my last LSD run, the week before the half. \u00a0Actually, the runs are interval runs, where I do 4:1 work:rest interval. \u00a0The pace will be much faster than the Disney half, and I think that because I am actually training this time, I should be okay afterwards. \u00a0Don&#8217;t let me forget to drink a real recovery drink with protein and BCAAs in it!<\/p>\n<p>I think my goal this year will be to do only half marathons and no triathlon longer than half Iron distance.<\/p>\n<p>See you in Gainesville in 3 weeks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking for a half marathon to run in February &#8211; one that was close by and one that I hadn&#8217;t done before, so I \u00a0started a search. \u00a0On halfmarathons.net, I found the Five Points of Life Marathon and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/?p=383\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,7],"tags":[303,138,90],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":384,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions\/384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}