{"id":970,"date":"2015-01-13T10:11:31","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T04:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/?p=970"},"modified":"2015-01-13T10:12:28","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T04:42:28","slug":"5-4-3-2-1-d-day-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/2015\/01\/5-4-3-2-1-d-day-is-here\/","title":{"rendered":"5-4-3-2-1&#8230;D Day is here!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a whirlwind of a week for me with the book launch at the expo, where I made so many friends. Time has now come to put this behind me for a while and focus on the race ahead. Enough and more has been said. About me, by me. I will keep this one short.<\/p>\n<p>Conversation between me and Sanjana ( my daughter- age 13)<\/p>\n<p>me: Do you think i will run well this year?<\/p>\n<p>she: Of course you will- i have no doubt! you have never complained during\u00a0your training . Unless <strong><em>you<\/em><\/strong> give \u00a0up-\u00a0you will fly!<\/p>\n<p>As I open my notebook, looking for words for my last pre race post, I find the following quote already written there.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhat gives light, must endure burn.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 &#8230;&#8230;..<\/em>Victor Frankl<\/p>\n<p>Not sure where I found it- but the more I read it, the more I feel it encapsulates the essence of running a race.<\/p>\n<p>They say, in order to run your next marathon, you need to forget the pain of the first.<\/p>\n<p>Yes. I need to prepare myself.<\/p>\n<p>Gather courage to face what I know is going to come.<\/p>\n<p>It is going to be harder than it has ever been.<\/p>\n<p>I know that.<\/p>\n<p>I need to gather the will.<\/p>\n<p>The will to endure.<\/p>\n<p>The will to suffer.<\/p>\n<p>As the dream is bigger than it has ever been.<\/p>\n<p>Robin Williams\u2019 immortal words from Dead Poets\u2019 Society\u2026<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cCarpe Dium. Sieze the Day boys. Make your lives extraordinary.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>so all the best&#8230;we shall meet on\u00a0the\u00a0other side as new people.\u00a0stronger\u00a0people.<\/p>\n<p>Let us conquer our fear &#8230;SCMM 2015, here we come!<em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/4263.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-971\" src=\"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/4263.jpg\" alt=\"4263\" width=\"590\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/4263.jpg 590w, https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/4263-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a whirlwind of a week for me with the book launch at the expo, where I made so many friends.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":972,"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-970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-running-soul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/screenshot-2014-04-21-13-33-10.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5lWKK-fE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970","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=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":976,"href":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions\/976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}