{"id":206,"date":"2016-11-17T13:24:44","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T21:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/?p=206"},"modified":"2016-11-17T13:24:44","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T21:24:44","slug":"six-months-off-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/17\/six-months-off-running\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Months off Running"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been dealing with sore feet a bit, a mild case of plantar fasciitis and figured after the <a href=\"http:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/04\/running-the-mt-ashland-hillclimb-13-5-miles-long-1-mile-up\/\">Mt Ashland Hill Climb<\/a> it would be good to take some time off and heal up 99 to 100%! Well after six months off running, but still walking, stretching and MTB, I went for a run. It felt really good to be back out on a trail in the misty early morning.<\/p>\n<p>I wore a newer pair of shoes (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.altrarunning.com\/search?q=lone+peak\">Altra Lone Peak 3<\/a>) and ran for about 30 mins. All is good. I can say I still feel stiffness in my feet, but not a hint of plantar strain. I&#8217;ll take it slow getting back into the swing of it. My mind and body wanted to keep running, but I&#8217;ll be curbing my enthusiasm and progress slowly and keep checking in with my body. Besides progressing slowly, I am going to switch shoes up every run. I&#8217;ll wear minimal xero sandals, Lone Peak (2 and 3), Superior 2 and a pair of Nike Terra Kiger 3 footwear. A wise runner told me his cure was to rest and then switch up shoes a lot&#8230; I&#8217;m taking that advice.<\/p>\n<p>If all goes well, this spring I&#8217;ll jump on a <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasignup.com\/events\/search.aspx\">30k and a 50k<\/a>, late summer hopefully that <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasignup.com\/events\/search.aspx\">100k<\/a> is in the bag and next year&#8230; well, we&#8217;ll see what I end up doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been dealing with sore feet a bit, a mild case of plantar fasciitis and figured after the <a href=\"http:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/04\/running-the-mt-ashland-hillclimb-13-5-miles-long-1-mile-up\/\">Mt Ashland Hill Climb<\/a> it would be good to take some time off and heal up 99 to 100%! Well after six months off running, but still walking, stretching and MTB, I went for a run. It felt really good to be back out on a trail in the misty early morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/17\/six-months-off-running\/\">&sim;&nbsp;Continue Reading&nbsp;&sim;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":208,"comment_status":"closed","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,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[50],"tags":[95,56],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_20161117_074000-e1479417816170.jpg?fit=2000%2C2000&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5OfD9-3k","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"https:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}