{"id":132,"date":"2021-06-27T21:03:48","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T21:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mselleneoushikes.com\/?p=132"},"modified":"2021-06-28T17:03:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T17:03:43","slug":"getting-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mselleneoushikes.com\/?p=132","title":{"rendered":"Getting Started"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"461\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/mselleneoushikes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210625_070641-461x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-133\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mselleneoushikes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210625_070641-461x1024.jpg 461w, http:\/\/mselleneoushikes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210625_070641-135x300.jpg 135w, http:\/\/mselleneoushikes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210625_070641-768x1707.jpg 768w, http:\/\/mselleneoushikes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210625_070641-691x1536.jpg 691w, http:\/\/mselleneoushikes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210625_070641-922x2048.jpg 922w, http:\/\/mselleneoushikes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210625_070641-900x2000.jpg 900w, http:\/\/mselleneoushikes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210625_070641-1280x2844.jpg 1280w, http:\/\/mselleneoushikes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210625_070641-scaled.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I went ahead and register for the Marathon March in October at Waterloo Village. It is 20 miles of all my favorite trails but with a time cap of 8 hours. I felt super confident when I hit the register button. I had just finished reading &#8220;A Beautiful Work in Progress&#8221;, by Mirna Valerio and was feel all inspired and capable. That was 3 days ago. Today I am wondering what I am getting myself into. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I went out this morning to do a quick 5 miles as sort of a kick off for training in preparation. I took the Sussex branch trail, totally flat and easy, 2.5 miles out and back. My legs were quite sore from an especially leg heavy WOD Saturday morning so I knew I wasn&#8217;t going to fly through it but I have done it plenty of times before and had no worries. Well I ended up pacing almost exactly 3 miles an hour. That means I could finish the Marathon March in 7 hours assuming no breaks, no bathroom, and that I could sustain that pace the entire time with unknown weather conditions and a pack on. I&#8217;m clearly nuts. I realize now that I have a bit of work to do before I tackle this hike but it was a start. I still have 16 weeks to go to get my trail legs back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/mselleneoushikes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_20210527_202713_170-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-134\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mselleneoushikes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_20210527_202713_170-819x1024.jpg 819w, http:\/\/mselleneoushikes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_20210527_202713_170-240x300.jpg 240w, http:\/\/mselleneoushikes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_20210527_202713_170-768x960.jpg 768w, http:\/\/mselleneoushikes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_20210527_202713_170-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, http:\/\/mselleneoushikes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_20210527_202713_170-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, http:\/\/mselleneoushikes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_20210527_202713_170-900x1125.jpg 900w, http:\/\/mselleneoushikes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_20210527_202713_170-1280x1600.jpg 1280w, http:\/\/mselleneoushikes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_20210527_202713_170.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went ahead and register for the Marathon March in October at Waterloo Village. It is 20 miles of all my favorite trails but with a time cap of 8 hours. I felt super confident when I hit the register button. I had just finished reading &#8220;A Beautiful Work in Progress&#8221;, by Mirna Valerio and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[69],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mselleneoushikes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mselleneoushikes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mselleneoushikes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mselleneoushikes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mselleneoushikes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mselleneoushikes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"http:\/\/mselleneoushikes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mselleneoushikes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mselleneoushikes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mselleneoushikes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}