{"id":30665,"date":"2023-01-10T07:04:46","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T13:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=30665"},"modified":"2023-01-10T07:04:46","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T13:04:46","slug":"that-many","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/10\/that-many\/","title":{"rendered":"That Many?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lileks ain&#8217;t even <a href=\"http:\/\/lileks.com\/bleats\/archive\/23\/0123\/22.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">humblebragging<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And apparently I am in the 1% of people my age who can do 50 pushups. I\u2019m sure that\u2019s absolutely scientifically and empirically true and I will hear no argument about it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other news, I should not challenge Lileks to a push-up duel any time soon.  For although I was able to do fifty push-ups in my martial arts class yesterday, I shook my arms at the thirty and forty push-up marks.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m actually, apparently, working myself back into shape&#8211;I have an indoor triathlon in a month, and I&#8217;ve been trying to attend more martial arts classes these days (holidays and the school&#8217;s abbreviated schedule aside), and I&#8217;ve found that I have tired legs.  I&#8217;d worry that my physical fitness ceiling has lowered as I have aged, but in all likelihood I just need to build back into it.  After all, I do remember aching legs when I first started to do 5Ks six years ago (and my last was, what, three years ago?  Two years ago?)<\/p>\n<p>Ah, well, there are some things that money can&#8217;t buy.  For everything else, there&#8217;s Advil.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, back in those early days of martial arts, we put a bottle of Advil in the glove compartment in the car to pop one before class.  So I suppose I am working too hard to discourage myself and to convince myself that the <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/07\/it-begins-2023\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">2023 Winter Reading Challenge<\/a> is a more important personal goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lileks ain&#8217;t even humblebragging: And apparently I am in the 1% of people my age who can do 50 pushups. I\u2019m sure that\u2019s absolutely scientifically and empirically true and I will hear no argument about it. In other news, I should not challenge Lileks to a push-up duel any time soon. For although I was [&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-30665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30665","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=30665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30667,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30665\/revisions\/30667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}