{"id":1597,"date":"2008-04-25T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1597"},"modified":"2008-04-25T09:15:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-25T13:15:00","slug":"couch-to-5k-2-electric-boogaloo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1597","title":{"rendered":"Couch to 5K 2: Electric Boogaloo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/misc\/exercise\/strawberrysyrup.jpg\" target=\"blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/misc\/exercise\/strawberrysyrup-thumb.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\"><\/a>Earlier this year, I laid off doing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coolrunning.com\/engine\/2\/2_3\/181.shtml\" target=\"blank\">Couch to 5K<\/a> program for a while, but with the weather so nice, I was ready to start back up.  After a week or so of walking 2 1\/2 miles a day, I gave it a go today.  I&#8217;m not dead, so that&#8217;s good!  I am, however, as red as always.  I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/tvini.livejournal.com\/307099.html\" target=\"blank\">written about this<\/a> before.  It&#8217;s strictly a cosmetic issue, as near as I can tell.<\/p>\n<p>I think from now on, I&#8217;m not going to use beats per minute as an indicator of how good a workout is.  I&#8217;m going to use a color scale, like dentists do when bleaching your teeth.  Today:  strawberry syrup.  Good workout!<\/p>\n<p>Having my skin turn this red is probably bad for my complexion, but then, dying of health problems related to obesity would probably be even worse for it, so I can deal.<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"><lj-embed id=\"8\" \/><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\">\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/93468786@N00\/2441305870\/\">Em &amp; Dad swing<\/a>\t<br \/>\tOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/93468786@N00\/\">emisanboo<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Flickr now allows uploading of video, so let&#8217;s try it out and see how it works.  Is it visible?<\/p>\n<p>This is my husband and daughter last night.  Darling, this is not what they mean by &#8220;winding down for bedtime.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, I laid off doing the Couch to 5K program for a while, but with the weather so nice, I was ready to start back up. After a week or so of walking 2 1\/2 miles a day, I gave it a go today. I&#8217;m not dead, so that&#8217;s good! I am, however, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[87,90],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}