{"id":189,"date":"2013-03-19T18:25:04","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T09:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/?p=189"},"modified":"2013-03-19T18:28:59","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T09:28:59","slug":"officially-returning-to-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/?p=189","title":{"rendered":"Officially Returning to Running!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a really great Tuesday: amazing weather AND I went for another run! My comeback is live and happening!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s3.photobucket.com\/user\/laur627\/media\/AA_zps47f1730d.png.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"70%\" src=\"http:\/\/i3.photobucket.com\/albums\/y76\/laur627\/AA_zps47f1730d.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo AA_zps47f1730d.png\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nA slow and steady 2 miler. It was fine, I felt out of shape, which is to be expected after not running for a month and a half. I came home and iced right away and felt pretty good. Minor achilles pain when I started running but it went away! I think until further notice\/ pain, I&#8217;m back on the running scene!<\/p>\n<p>In other news, my local park that I run in is all abloom for spring! I love it!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s3.photobucket.com\/user\/laur627\/media\/CC_zps845cfb23.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"90%\" src=\"http:\/\/i3.photobucket.com\/albums\/y76\/laur627\/CC_zps845cfb23.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo CC_zps845cfb23.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Those trees are sakura, or cherry blossom trees. In Japan every spring, it is customary to walk through the parks and enjoy the cherry blossoms. It&#8217;s called hanami, and many people bring out giant cameras for some photography, or enjoy a picnic under the blooms. It&#8217;s so pretty!<\/p>\n<p>I attempted to get a pic of myself with the cherry blossoms on my run. Don&#8217;t mind my glasses, I had shipping problems with my contact lenses (the life of an expat!) and am stuck wearing glasses for now. Fact: your dorkiest frames are the ones that stay on your face best during exercise. Sigh.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s3.photobucket.com\/user\/laur627\/media\/BB_zps3cde0349.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"60%\" src=\"http:\/\/i3.photobucket.com\/albums\/y76\/laur627\/BB_zps3cde0349.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo BB_zps3cde0349.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once I was cooled off and hydrated post-run, I hit the textbooks for a bit. When I was fully committed to diet and weight loss (aka before I visited the states and fell off the band wagon, swearing I&#8217;d run it off as soon as I got home, til I got injured&#8230;) I had taken an avid interest in becoming a personal trainer, or maybe a running coach. I got the learning materials from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasm.org\/\">National Academy of Sports Medicine<\/a>, but haven&#8217;t been able to give it much time. So now I&#8217;m going over the material, and maybe next time I&#8217;m in the states I can take the exam. <\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m not sure if these two things go hand in hand, but I did have a study buddy my mom sent to me from the wonderful folks at See&#8217;s Candies&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s3.photobucket.com\/user\/laur627\/media\/photo1_zps226433cd.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"70%\" src=\"http:\/\/i3.photobucket.com\/albums\/y76\/laur627\/photo1_zps226433cd.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo photo1_zps226433cd.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hope you all have a great Tuesday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a really great Tuesday: amazing weather AND I went for another run! My comeback is live and happening! A slow and steady 2 miler. It was fine, I felt out of shape, which is to be expected after not running for a month and a half. I came home and iced right away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[181,170,271,11,287,130],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fitness","tag-hanami","tag-injury","tag-japan","tag-nasm","tag-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}