{"id":40535,"date":"2020-11-30T02:08:15","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T02:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=40535"},"modified":"2020-11-30T02:08:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T02:08:16","slug":"exercise-and-fitness-running-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/exercise-and-fitness-running-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"Exercise and fitness: running redux"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about running: the tutor makes a few observations.<\/h2>\n<p>\nRunning was once my main form of exercise. However, possibly about six years ago, I started to feel it differently. At the same time, I began hearing about people a little older who needed hip or knee replacements, etc. To be safe, I cut back on running. Instead, I turned to skipping, riding the stationary bike, climbing stairs (or using the stair climber if at the gym), or even following home workout tapes I&#8217;d play on TV.<\/p>\n<p>This past summer I began running again: it&#8217;s been a happy reunion. Here are some rules to which I hold myself:\n<ul><li>\nI only run on grass &#8211; never on a hard surface.<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t do any speed laps until at least one-third of the way into the run. Therefore, if it&#8217;s twelve laps of a field, I don&#8217;t do any fast running until completing four normal-pace laps.<\/li>\n<li>I always do a cool-down walk of at least five minutes &#8211; I think more is even better. This is one reason I don&#8217;t drive to the running location, but instead walk there, do the run, then walk back.<\/li>\n<li>I stretch the groin, hamstrings, and calves after each run.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nI&#8217;d feared my running days were over, but following these guidelines, I can imagine running virtually forever.<\/p>\n<p>Best of luck with your running or other exercise:)<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about running: the tutor makes a few observations. Running was once my main form of exercise. However, possibly about six years ago, I started to feel it differently. At the same time, I began hearing about people a little &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/exercise-and-fitness-running-redux\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Exercise and fitness: running redux<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exercise-and-fitness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40535"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40539,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40535\/revisions\/40539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}