{"id":73918,"date":"2019-01-01T15:00:02","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T14:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/01\/01\/sprinting-fartlek-and-romanian-deadlifts-how-to-get-better-at-running\/"},"modified":"2019-01-01T15:00:02","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T14:00:02","slug":"sprinting-fartlek-and-romanian-deadlifts-how-to-get-better-at-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=73918","title":{"rendered":"Sprinting, fartlek and Romanian deadlifts \u2013 how to get better at running"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every week I run 40km, and every week it takes a little bit longer. Can I stop the rot?I\u2019ve been running for about five years. I started because I wanted to get fitter and I carried on because it worked. When you\u2019re in your 50s, with a job that is mostly sitting on your arse, you have to do something.Running suits my lifestyle. I live in London, about 14km (nine miles) from work, so when I\u2019m feeling energetic I can run all the way there in about 1hr 20min. The city being what it is, I couldn\u2019t get there much faster by public transport. Other days, I can squeeze six or seven kilometres into my lunchbreak. In a good week, I can notch up 40km without totally neglecting my wife, stepkids, cat and dog. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2019\/jan\/01\/how-to-get-better-at-running-sprinting-fartlek-and-romanian-deadlifts\" target=\"_blank\">Sprinting, fartlek and Romanian deadlifts \u2013 how to get better at running<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every week I run 40km, and every week it takes a little bit longer. Can I stop the rot?I\u2019ve been running for about five years. I started because I wanted to get fitter and I carried on because it worked. When you\u2019re in your 50s, with a job that is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}