{"id":1341,"date":"2015-11-24T12:44:18","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T07:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/?p=1341"},"modified":"2015-11-24T12:46:09","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T07:16:09","slug":"1341","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/2015\/11\/1341\/","title":{"rendered":"The age old Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This has been a strange year. I ran a lot of races and surprised myself. I ran Bangalore and Hyderabad without any expectations. And did reasonably well.<br \/>\nBut the upcoming race -in 5 days &#8211; ADHM 2015&#8230;<br \/>\nIn ADHM 2014 I got my coveted sub 2, effortlessly. I ran easy. Found my rhythm and flew. But I worry about this year. My training has neither been smooth nor consistent. Bad speed workouts. But good long runs. So I really don&#8217;t know what to expect. Yes. I have worked hard. But my mind, as usual, has worked harder.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1353 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/3a09f752a146273801d0bc1ce082d9ed.jpg\" alt=\"3a09f752a146273801d0bc1ce082d9ed\" width=\"236\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/3a09f752a146273801d0bc1ce082d9ed.jpg 236w, https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/3a09f752a146273801d0bc1ce082d9ed-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><br \/>\nCreating all these doubts.<br \/>\nMaking up stories.<br \/>\nMagnifying all my fears.<\/p>\n<p>Last Wednesday after a bad speed workout:<br \/>\nMe: I am not a fast runner.<br \/>\nRohan: Stop it. You cannot run because you are thinking like that. You are stuck in 2010. Wake up. Let go! It is 2015!! And you are fast. (Yes, I know it&#8217;s all relative!)<br \/>\nMe: speechless (for a change) !<\/p>\n<p>I have 5 days.<br \/>\n5 days to empty my head.<br \/>\n5 days to build my confidence.<br \/>\n5 days to find my strength.<\/p>\n<p>I am going to Delhi with a purpose.<br \/>\nTo run hard.<br \/>\nTo run strong.<br \/>\nTo run faster than I have ever run before.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I know &#8211; PBs in Delhi are only valid in Delhi \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/gunnar_nelson_iceland_mma.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1352\" src=\"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/gunnar_nelson_iceland_mma.png\" alt=\"gunnar_nelson_iceland_mma\" width=\"400\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/gunnar_nelson_iceland_mma.png 400w, https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/gunnar_nelson_iceland_mma-300x136.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has been a strange year. I ran a lot of races and surprised myself. I ran Bangalore and Hyderabad without any expectations.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-running-soul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5lWKK-1341","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1357,"href":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions\/1357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}