{"id":4664,"date":"2011-04-28T01:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T01:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4664"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:59","slug":"day-163-running-bibs-throw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4664","title":{"rendered":"Day 163 – Running Bibs (Throw)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Found some more running souvenirs – bibs from various races.\u00a0\u00a0Once\u00a0pinned proudly to my shirt as I ran around downtown Indianapolis … now\u00a0just clutter on a shelf.\u00a0 Thought I should toss them.\u00a0 No big deal. I have a co-worker who is trying to sell her mini-marathon spot.\u00a0 I didn’t register this year because it costs $50 and we need to be saving money wherever possible.\u00a0 My co-worker is selling her spot for $25.\u00a0 I’m tempted, but even if it were free, I haven’t done any serious long runs for 7 or 8 months.\u00a0 Nothing over 7 miles recently and the mini is 13.1 miles!\u00a0 I did go for a run last night and it felt really good.\u00a0 4 miles.\u00a0 Now that I’m done with Lenten fasting, I have some spare calories to keep me going. Speaking of Lent … I have to tell you how proud I am of Dats (age 9 … for one more week!) and The Drama Queen (newly age 9)\u00a0and Ida (age 7).\u00a0 The first two gave up candy for Lent and Ida gave up chips.\u00a0 (And just so you know, it wasn’t because I pushed them to do it … they decided on their own.)\u00a0 Honestly, I didn’t think they’d last more than a couple of days.\u00a0 But they all stuck to it! I learned something the other day about Lenten fasting and it was kind of embarassing!\u00a0 Fasting for Lent was not a part of my church’s tradition while I was growing up.\u00a0 It was seen as a “Catholic thing”.\u00a0 I was always told that Lent was 40 days leading to Easter but I never looked closely at a calendar.\u00a0 This year, about one point mid-way through Lent,\u00a0I was trying to do the math in my head and something wasn’t adding up right, but … again… I never consulted a calendar.\u00a0 Well, the day after Easter I was reading in a book called “Sacred Waiting” and discovered something I never heard before (even in seminary!!):\u00a0 Lent is actually 46 days long!\u00a0 And traditionally, the Lenten fast would be maintained for 40 of those days – but excluded Sundays since they are “resurrection days”!\u00a0 That means, Melissa, the kids and I could have enjoyed Sundays off from our fasts without guilt of\u00a0conscience!\u00a0 Who knew? Not me.\u00a0 Now I do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Found some more running souvenirs – bibs from various races.\u00a0\u00a0Once\u00a0pinned proudly to my shirt as I ran around downtown Indianapolis … now\u00a0just clutter on a shelf.\u00a0 Thought I should toss them.\u00a0 No big deal. I have a co-worker who is trying to sell her mini-marathon spot.\u00a0 I didn’t register this year because it costs $50 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4666,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4664\/revisions\/4666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}