{"id":996,"date":"2011-04-17T07:23:31","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T05:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mountainhoppers.nl\/site\/?p=996"},"modified":"2011-04-17T07:23:31","modified_gmt":"2011-04-17T05:23:31","slug":"here-it-comes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainhoppers.nl\/site\/2011\/04\/17\/here-it-comes-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Here it comes again&#8230;. EcoMarathon Moeciu 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The story begins last year when I have decided to put myself up for a new challange: The Marathon (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecomarathon.ro\/\">http:\/\/www.ecomarathon.ro\/<\/a>). \u00a0The decision was made and a long plan of action was made&#8230;<!--more--> easier sayd then done. Training for marathon distance requires a different state of mind as it is first a challange with yourself. There are 42 km to be passed&#8230; 42&#8230; One can easily say that if you can run 21 (a so called Half marathon) you can also run 42. But there is not even a bit of truth in it.. it does not give you the perspective of having to fight for each km that is still to be added.. a fight that increases exponentially as your body limits are reached.<\/p>\n<p>So.. I started running and running and running making over 100 km per week. I have run in different places (from Australia to Kuala Lumpur), <a href=\"https:\/\/mountainhoppers.nl\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110301_0011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1000\" title=\"20110301_001\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainhoppers.nl\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110301_0011-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>different conditions (wind, rain, airco \ud83d\ude42 ), different groups ( GVAC, colleagues, alone, &#8230;). The challange is following the schedule and keeping up with it. I have now the full confidence that on 7th of May I will be up for it. I will be letting you guys know how it went as soon as I will recover \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story begins last year when I have decided to put myself up for a new challange: The Marathon (http:\/\/www.ecomarathon.ro\/). \u00a0The decision was made and a long plan of action was made&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainhoppers.nl\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainhoppers.nl\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainhoppers.nl\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainhoppers.nl\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainhoppers.nl\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mountainhoppers.nl\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainhoppers.nl\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainhoppers.nl\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainhoppers.nl\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}