{"id":13142,"date":"2013-11-29T08:48:41","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T14:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=13142"},"modified":"2013-11-29T08:48:41","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T14:48:41","slug":"whos-the-big-athlete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/29\/whos-the-big-athlete\/","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s The Big Athlete?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, my beautiful wife participated in the running portion of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-leader.com\/article\/20131129\/NEWS01\/311290011\/19th-annual-Turkey-Trot-5K-Springfield\" target=\"_blank\">Turkey Trot<\/a> and ran five kilometers, which are Canadian miles, and she did this without stopping, sobbing, or being chased.<\/p>\n<p>Whereas I cross-trained the five kilAH!meters with a five-year-old and a seven-year-old.  How do you cross-train a 5K, you ask?  Well, I:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Walked fast a couple hundred meters.<\/li>\n<li>Ran a few hundred meters.<\/li>\n<li>Walked real slow a couple hundred meters.<\/li>\n<li>Repeated this cycle at intervals throughout.\n<li>Swiveled my head 180 degrees Linda Blair style to keep in sight a sprinter and a dawdler.<\/li>\n<li>Carried 50 pounds for a kilometer because it was too tired to walk.<\/li>\n<li>Put down the 50 pounds when it saw the finish line and wanted to run across it.<\/li>\n<li>Helped up the 50 pounds who ran through the finish gate with its arms raised triumphantly and promptly tripped over the finish line&#8211;or at least the timing mat across the finish line.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I ask you, gentle reader, who got the better workout?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, my beautiful wife participated in the running portion of the Turkey Trot and ran five kilometers, which are Canadian miles, and she did this without stopping, sobbing, or being chased. Whereas I cross-trained the five kilAH!meters with a five-year-old and a seven-year-old. How do you cross-train a 5K, you ask? Well, I: Walked fast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13142"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13145,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13142\/revisions\/13145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}