{"id":47597,"date":"2026-02-09T14:38:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T12:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/?p=47597"},"modified":"2026-02-09T14:38:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T12:38:28","slug":"a-sunrise-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/a-sunrise-run\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sunrise Run"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

Today I woke early. I set the alarm for 05:30 and again at 05:40 and yet again at 06:00. The reason for so many alarms is that it’s easy to set the first, wake up to turn it off, and then wake too late. It’s also as a backup. Usually the first alarm is enough to wake me.<\/p>\n

I can be a morning person, if other people are not noisy at night when I want to go to sleep at a reasonable time. Being a morning person requires living somewhere that is either quiet, or filled with white noise that covers other noises.<\/p>\n

Yesterday I managed to get to sleep at a reasonable time for getting up at 05:30. That’s why the other two alarms were backups, rather than required.<\/p>\n

I could have run the three kilometres to the meeting point but chose to walk, first to conserve energy and secondly because I didn’t know how hard the group would run.<\/p>\n

I was worried about the cold but luckily my layering, as well as not having to wait outside for others to arrive helped. When I dress for running I don’t dress to stand around in near freezing conditions.<\/p>\n

The running pace was okay for me, as well as for the distance. When I ran the 5k distance for wake up and run I was knackered. I suffered just to complete the distance. This time I ran the 7km with relative ease. Having run 7-10km more than once, and 21km once, I had a reserve of power.<\/p>\n

An advantage is that this is a group of cyclists, rather than runners, so when we got to climbs others slowed down. I still felt tired after one climb but recovered nicely.<\/p>\n

A New Opportunity<\/h2>\n

Today, I demonstrated, to myself, that I could join a running group and keep up without suffering too much. It is also the third day in a row that I ran. It’s nice that now I have running, hiking, cycling and skating groups, and activities to join.<\/p>\n

It feels good to finish something sporty early in the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>Today I woke early. I set the alarm for 05:30 and again at 05:40 and yet again at 06:00. The reason for so many alarms is that it’s easy to set the first, wake up to turn it off, and then wake too late. It’s also as a backup. Usually the first alarm is enough […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,533],"tags":[6645,6566,1062,49],"class_list":["post-47597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-networking","category-switzerland-2","tag-group","tag-morning","tag-running","tag-social"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47598,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47597\/revisions\/47598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}