{"id":552,"date":"2009-09-01T13:19:32","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T20:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/?p=552"},"modified":"2009-09-01T13:19:32","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T20:19:32","slug":"the-daily-grind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/2009\/09\/01\/the-daily-grind\/","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Grind"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_555\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-555\" style=\"width: 292px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/files\/2009\/09\/stef-and-phil-adventures-0371.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-555\" title=\"stef-and-phil-adventures-0371\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/files\/2009\/09\/stef-and-phil-adventures-0371.jpg\" alt=\"stef-and-phil-adventures-0371\" width=\"292\" height=\"380\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-555\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Decisions, decisions.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I attacked the Grouse Grind again this past weekend, and to my own surprise, it wasn\u2019t as bad as the first few times I tackled it. I even found I had enough energy at the very top to sprint up the last few hundred metres into the clearing.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, when I first set my fitness plan goals, I had hoped to do the Grouse Grind once a week. That has obviously not happened. Summer is a busy time, and with a multitude of friends coming to visit me from back east, there were much more fun things to do than torture myself climbing a mountain.<\/p>\n<p>From this weekend\u2019s adventure, however, I have been reminded of the benefits of the Grind. Not only did I feel a sense of pride and accomplishment upon completion, I sweat out all the toxins in my body (many times over), got a great (and free!) cardio vascular workout, but as I noticed on my regular run last night, breathing is so much easier on flat ground. I shaved maybe 10 minutes off my typical run time just due to the increased elasticity in my lungs.<\/p>\n<p>One of my goals for 2010 is to run the Vancouver half marathon, so I think using the Grind to build endurance will be a great asset. Hopefully I\u2019ll be able to make it back a few more times before it closes for the season. Luckily, another friend of mine arrives later this week, and she happens to be the fittest Ontarian I know, so we\u2019ll see is she survives the Grind.\u00a0 This might provide some evidence to support my theory regarding different fitness standards between provinces.\u00a0 I\u2019ll keep you up to date on my findings.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_556\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-556\" style=\"width: 347px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/files\/2009\/09\/stef-and-phil-adventures-0391.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-556\" title=\"stef-and-phil-adventures-0391\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/files\/2009\/09\/stef-and-phil-adventures-0391.jpg\" alt=\"stef-and-phil-adventures-0391\" width=\"347\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-556\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Those are my feet, I swear!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/files\/2009\/09\/stef-and-phil-adventures-037.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/files\/2009\/09\/stef-and-phil-adventures-039.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attacked the Grouse Grind again this past weekend, and to my own surprise, it wasn\u2019t as bad as the first few times I tackled it. I even found I had enough energy at the very top to sprint up the last few hundred metres into the clearing. Unfortunately, when I first set my fitness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":741,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/741"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":560,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions\/560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}