{"id":11673,"date":"2011-01-26T14:38:38","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T22:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=11673"},"modified":"2011-01-26T14:38:38","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T22:38:38","slug":"what-if-i-hadnt-gotten-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=11673","title":{"rendered":"What If….I Hadn’t Gotten Injured"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the weekend I started to fantasize about how my life would be different if I hadn’t gotten injured back in September.<\/p>\n

If I hadn’t gotten injured a week after I ran Hood to Coast, I would have immediately begun my Half Marathon training. And it would have been aggressive training, too. I would have taken that 7 days off from running Hood to Coast and then immediately start training–no break.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I would have had to live, eat, breath, dream and think about the Half. I had my sights set on the Vegas Half. Both Michael and I had been longing to return to Vegas and I wanted nothing more than to run down the strip.<\/p>\n

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Vegas Marathon<\/p><\/div>\n

Of course, getting to Vegas for the Half would present other challenges. For example, I’d want to drink:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>And stay up late gambling:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Then I’d have to stumble to the Starting line to run 13.1 miles. \ud83d\ude09 Sounds like\u00a0 a great plan, right? I’d also be in debt from plane tickets, Vegas hotels, and of course an expensive dinner at Craftsteak<\/a>!<\/p>\n

So returning back to Portland with my Medal for running the Half, a credit card bill and happy memories…I would have then started training for the Eugene Half Marathon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Eugene Marathon<\/p><\/div>\n

After the Eugene Half Marathon I’d be then trying to cram into 2 months a year’s worth of training on the bike because my priority of 2011 would be running–not cycling. Then I would do the Portland Century bike ride.<\/p>\n

If I hadn’t gotten injured, I would not have started weight lifting. My body would be just as soft and squishy as it was after Hood to Coast. I definitely would not have any definition in my arms and shoulders like this:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I’d also weigh about 8-10 pounds heavier than I do now.\u00a0 I lost a nice amount of weight when I stopped running and switched to weight lifting.<\/p>\n

I truly believe that everything happens for a reason. Sometimes we have a plan in mind of how we want things to work out. Then something happens to shake it all up and remind us that we really CAN’T plan everything out.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Honestly I was getting a little overly focused on training and racing. Everything was about training for a race. That high is pretty addicting. Instead of working out for fun, or doing things I liked<\/strong> like swimming, hiking, etc all of my workouts were running. I’m pretty sure I was going to end up injured following that path.<\/p>\n

Despite being frustrated with my body, getting injured actually ended up being a blessing in disguise. I found a love of weight lifting I never thought possible. I’ve also found some peace in my life in regards to working out. I realized I need to workout because I LIKE it. Not because I’m training for something.<\/p>\n

In everything I’ve taken on in my life I’ve learned a positive lesson out of it. This time? I realized that I am much stronger than I thought. In the past I would have been depressed and sad about not running. Sure I have my moments but most of the time I feel like I gained something positive in my life instead of focusing on the negatives.<\/p>\n

QUESTION: What is a scenario you’ve recently experienced that turned out to be a positive in disguise?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the weekend I started to fantasize about how my life would be different if I hadn’t gotten injured back in September. If I hadn’t gotten injured a week after I ran Hood to Coast, I would have immediately begun my Half Marathon training. And it would have been aggressive training, too. I would have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1424,14,26,1901,101,1902,1425,138,715,148,150,734,1335,224,1468],"tags":[643,8645,707,8791,8707,8810,8739,2382],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/roulette.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11673"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12396,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11673\/revisions\/12396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}