{"id":2190,"date":"2011-05-26T11:59:38","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T18:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=2190"},"modified":"2011-05-26T11:59:38","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T18:59:38","slug":"uncomfortable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=2190","title":{"rendered":"Uncomfortable"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">\n.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }\n.flickr-yourcomment { }\n.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }\n.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\">\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/obnoxiousaries\/5650467054\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5144\/5650467054_f7fd3c5657.jpg\" class=\"flickr-photo\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n\t<span class=\"flickr-caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/obnoxiousaries\/5650467054\/\">hiking exes!<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/obnoxiousaries\/\">Random and Odd<\/a>.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"flickr-yourcomment\">\n\tLast weekend I finally had my break through with distance.  It of course revolved around poorly marked trails and push of my fellow trail runners.<br \/>\nThe weekend before last we did 15 miles and after the initial burn I had nothing to recover from.  My body let me know that 15 miles with moderate elevation gain and loss was okay and we could do it again.<br \/>\nWe decided we needed to push further and we planned at 17 or 18 mile trail run.  As par to any trail we have never been on, we got lost and took the longest possible path back to where we knew the trail linked up again.<br \/>\nThis is only partially my fault.   I wanted to take Pointed Rock Trail (more commonly known as Training Hill or K2) because I wanted to be able to finally put to rest any apprehension to hills.  After K2, I have absolutely no apprehension what so ever.  That hill that is a mile straight up at a 30% grade pretty much kicked my ass and handed it back and made me run another 24 miles after it.<\/p>\n<p>After I learned how to skydive on my own I felt like there was pretty much nothing I couldn\u2019t do. The exception to that was to run a mile without stopping, even if I was being chased by zombies or a serial killer.  During movies where the character is running through streets or the forest to get away from being hacked to into a hundred pieces I would think to myself, \u2018yeah, I  would be the first one they knocked off.\u2019 And I would always hope that it wouldn\u2019t be after running to escape. Kill me off while sitting on the couch or making out in a car. I\u2019m totally okay with that.<br \/>\nI would also watch those people just running and running and think, \u201cthat\u2019s retarded.\u201d  Oh wait, I still do that.   Last weekend I figured out how they do it without stopping every few hundred feet and yelling, \u201cFUCK ME THIS IS STUPID AND I HATE IT!\u201d    <br \/>\nBecause of what I learned I finally was able to tell Tabitha that she is going to run in the Western States 100 mile endurance run.   She looked at me like I was little crazy and then she let it sink in.  \u201cOkay.\u201d  I told her my time frame and what we would need to do to qualify.  She took it all in without really saying too much.<br \/>\nYesterday while at work I got an email from her.  She had sent me the information for a 50 mile ultra that I had already researched long ago when I secretly decided to do this.  \u201cWe can do this and we will need it to qualify.\u201d  The fact that my friend looked it up and started the researching just made my heart swell with pride.   What I proposed to my friend takes months and months of training without fail, rain\/scorching sun\/hail and snow\u2026we have to train, we have to devote up to 20 miles a weekend on those trails in the beginning and then push forward to 40 and 50 a weekend, we have to take on K2 or an equivalent every weekend.  EVERY WEEKEND. This is just absolutely crazy what I suggested and she said, \u201cokay\u201d and she started the research to get us there.  I felt like I had asked her to give me her kidney or bone marrow\u2026or her 3 and 5th child.  She has truly become a friend that will walk through fire with me.  Literally she will because we will soon do The Tough Mudder. <\/p>\n<p>\nSuccess doesn\u2019t meet you at where you\u2019re comfortable.  I was uncomfortable for many years, but I didn\u2019t use that to push me forward to a new place, this place. Thank you Tabitha for walking this path with me, being my cheerleader and being uncomfortable as long as it takes before we are successful.  You\u2019re not alone my friend, I\u2019m right here with you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>hiking exes!, originally uploaded by Random and Odd. Last weekend I finally had my break through with distance. It of course revolved around poorly marked trails and push of my fellow trail runners. The weekend before last we did 15 miles and after the initial burn I had nothing to recover from. My body let&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}