{"id":173,"date":"2024-09-06T20:34:36","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T20:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/josh.run\/blog\/?p=173"},"modified":"2024-09-06T20:34:36","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T20:34:36","slug":"why-i-started-a-run-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josh.run\/blog\/2024\/09\/06\/why-i-started-a-run-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I started a run club"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The reasons are many, and far behind me at this point. In recent times I&#8217;ve found myself scratching my head and wondering why we even started our run club, and why we continue to support it. Like many endeavors in life, there are times when the bad starts to outweigh the good. Or, in running training, when you reach a point of diminishing returns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But then you see something like this and it all becomes crystal clear again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"738\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/josh.run\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Circle_C_Run_Club_xinli-738x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/josh.run\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Circle_C_Run_Club_xinli-738x1024.png 738w, https:\/\/josh.run\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Circle_C_Run_Club_xinli-216x300.png 216w, https:\/\/josh.run\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Circle_C_Run_Club_xinli-768x1066.png 768w, https:\/\/josh.run\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Circle_C_Run_Club_xinli-1107x1536.png 1107w, https:\/\/josh.run\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Circle_C_Run_Club_xinli-676x938.png 676w, https:\/\/josh.run\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Circle_C_Run_Club_xinli.png 1108w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 738px) 100vw, 738px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reasons are many, and far behind me at this point. In recent times I&#8217;ve found myself scratching my head and wondering why we even started our run club, and why we continue to support it. Like many endeavors in life, there are times when the bad starts to outweigh the good. Or, in running [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.run\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.run\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.run\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.run\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.run\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/josh.run\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"https:\/\/josh.run\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.run\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.run\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.run\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}