{"id":7299,"date":"2010-07-31T08:28:37","date_gmt":"2010-07-31T14:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=7299"},"modified":"2016-05-03T11:23:21","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T17:23:21","slug":"carpe-diem-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=7299","title":{"rendered":"Carpe Diem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Grandchildren Moon<\/p>\n<p>Over to Rum River Central Park this morning inspired by Emma.\u00a0 Her death reminded me life flees behind us as the ancientrail of our lifetime grows longer and longer.\u00a0 This day is all we ever have, so we cannot allow habitual, customary or rigid behaviors to steal it from us.\u00a0 I had grown away from my every morning exercise at Rum River Park or, in winter, at the park behind the Rum River branch of the Anoka Library.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t even remember when that transition happened.\u00a0 When the treadmill and the resistance work came into the house, I imagine.\u00a0 They are not exclusive of each other, inside workouts and outside.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one solution I&#8217;m trying now.\u00a0 Three days a week interval training on the treadmill and resistance work alternated with three days of a steady pace outside, either on foot or on snowshoes if we get enough snow.\u00a0 I used to do the snowshoes every morning in the winter when we had good snow.<\/p>\n<p>The Rum River time this morning was not without problems.\u00a0 Biting flies, mosquitoes and the variability of the trail all made it less than desirable.\u00a0 Plus, I&#8217;m not in as good as a shape as I was when I did it before.\u00a0 Bug\u00a0 juice will solve one of those problems and increased resistance and weight loss the other.\u00a0 The variability of the trail will become a plus again, as it was in the past, as I get used to it again.<\/p>\n<p>Carpe diem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Grandchildren Moon Over to Rum River Central Park this morning inspired by Emma.\u00a0 Her death reminded me life flees behind us as the ancientrail of our lifetime grows longer and longer.\u00a0 This day is all we ever have, so we cannot allow habitual, customary or rigid behaviors to steal it from us.\u00a0 I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=7299\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Carpe Diem<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,127],"tags":[124,1001,369,2660],"class_list":["post-7299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs","category-health","tag-death","tag-emma","tag-exercise","tag-rum-river"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36849,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7299\/revisions\/36849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}