{"id":1028,"date":"2011-05-04T14:31:22","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T18:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hnetalk.com\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2011-05-04T14:31:22","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T18:31:22","slug":"another-rugged-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/2011\/05\/04\/another-rugged-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Rugged Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 24, 2011 is the target date. This is the scheduled date for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruggedmaniac.com\/events-details\/items\/rugged-maniac-5k-southwick-2011.html\" target=\"_blank\">Rugged Maniac<\/a> obstacle course race in Southwick, MA. I participated last year and really enjoyed it. The biggest difference from last year is now I have a time to beat. <!--more-->I finished the course in 38 minutes. Compared to other racers it is a below average time, but that is OK, I am a below average runner. I knew this last year and wanted to kick myself for not training enough with running.<\/p>\n<p>I did build a makeshift obstacle course in my yard.<\/p>\n<p>It included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A seven-foot wall<\/li>\n<li>Two hurdles<\/li>\n<li>A crawl under<\/li>\n<li>A tire run through<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So this year I am adding a running regiment, and yesterday was my first day. I jogged two miles and I survived. I hope to add at least three more before the big day. Are there any runners out there who want to offer some advice, I could use it. Or if you are training for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruggedmaniac.com\/events-details\/items\/rugged-maniac-5k-southwick-2011.html\" target=\"_blank\">Rugged Maniac<\/a> event, tell me what you are doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 24, 2011 is the target date. This is the scheduled date for the Rugged Maniac obstacle course race in Southwick, MA. I participated last year and really enjoyed it. The biggest difference from last year is now I have a time to beat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goals-and-motivation","category-workout-of-the-week"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZZxW-gA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}