{"id":11763,"date":"2010-03-15T19:58:45","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T19:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/03\/15\/the-first-step-to-enjoying-running\/"},"modified":"2010-03-15T19:58:45","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T19:58:45","slug":"the-first-step-to-enjoying-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/03\/15\/the-first-step-to-enjoying-running\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Step to Enjoying Running"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Arthur Lydiard, <em>Run to the Top<\/em> (2nd ed. Auckland: Minerva, 1967, p. 4):<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">The first step to enjoying running &#8212; and anyone will enjoy it if he takes that first step &#8212; is to achieve perfect fitness.&#0160; I don&#39;t mean just the ability to run half a mile once a week without collapsing.&#0160; I mean the ability to run great distances with ease at a steady speed.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">That&#39;s one hell of a first step.&#0160; But the great coach is right: you will never enjoy running or understand its satisfactions if you jog around the block for 20 minutes four times per week.&#0160;&#0160; I find that only after one hour of running am I properly primed and stoked.&#0160; And then the real run begins.&#0160; Or as I recall Joe Henderson saying back in the &#39;70s in a <em>Runner&#39;s World<\/em> column: Run the first hour for your body, the second for your self.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arthur Lydiard, Run to the Top (2nd ed. Auckland: Minerva, 1967, p. 4): The first step to enjoying running &#8212; and anyone will enjoy it if he takes that first step &#8212; is to achieve perfect fitness.&#0160; I don&#39;t mean just the ability to run half a mile once a week without collapsing.&#0160; I mean &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/03\/15\/the-first-step-to-enjoying-running\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The First Step to Enjoying Running&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}