{"id":1023,"date":"2014-12-04T02:00:49","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T02:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/?p=1023"},"modified":"2014-12-04T02:06:43","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T02:06:43","slug":"three-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/2014\/12\/three-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Months"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few months ago I started running. I was a bit overweight and generally\u00a0feeling sluggish and creaky after a summer\/lifetime of being pretty\u00a0sedentary. So I put on the sneakers I bought last time I tried to pick up running regularly and…just started doing it, lest I overthink it and wind up on the couch researching\u00a0all the exercise gear I need<\/em>\u00a0and whoops, I’m back where I started.<\/p>\n

I’ve been using Nike+ to track my progress. This is what my first run looked like\u2014pretty pathetic:<\/p>\n

\"august\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And only\u00a0three months later:<\/p>\n

\"november\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This\u00a0was a personal record for distance and time\u2014the weather was crummy, otherwise I think my pace could have been a bit quicker.<\/p>\n

I’ve run almost 200 miles since that first run and have\u00a0lost 17 pounds, hitting\u00a0my (admittedly arbitrary) goal weight exactly three months\u00a0from when I started.<\/p>\n

Three months ago the idea of running for an hour without stopping felt\u00a0impossible. The human body is a\u00a0crazy, remarkably adaptable machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few months ago I started running. I was a bit overweight and generally\u00a0feeling sluggish and creaky after a summer\/lifetime of being pretty\u00a0sedentary. So I put on the sneakers I bought last time I tried to pick up running regularly and…just started doing it, lest I overthink it and wind up on the couch researching\u00a0all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":"Three Months http:\/\/wp.me\/p1G65p-gv","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[161,164],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fitness","tag-running"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1G65p-gv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1071,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}