{"id":89,"date":"2024-06-04T20:24:08","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T20:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/josh.run\/blog\/?page_id=89"},"modified":"2025-01-14T21:37:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T21:37:24","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/josh.run\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Josh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Depending on the Texas weather I generally look like one of these guys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Josh Janicek is a run coach. He is not going to write this whole thing in the third person. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can’t really peg a date or time period on which I started running, because we all<\/em> started running not long after we barely got the hang of walking. I ran when all us kids in the neighborhood would play after school and on the weekends. I did the required running for peewee soccer and baseball, and then football and track in junior high. I wish I’d ran track and cross country in high school and college. I’ll bet I could’ve done some damage. I didn’t have a love of running back then. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I didn’t start running as a hobby and in earnest until July 11, 2013. I started running because I needed and wanted to get healthier. And because I couldn’t ride a bike. More on that later. I started running because:<\/p>\n\n\n\n