{"id":1971,"date":"2012-02-06T19:37:18","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T01:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=1971"},"modified":"2012-02-06T19:37:18","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T01:37:18","slug":"the-best-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=1971","title":{"rendered":"The Best Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(iPhone photo #37 in my 2012 365+1 project)<\/p>\n

I always think it’s not worth doing if it’s not worth overdoing. When I decided I wanted to get in shape, I couldn’t just start exercising more. I had to have an extraordinary goal. For me, extraordinary is the idea that I could get myself into shape to hike the Appalachian Trail. And not just two or three miles to look at scenery and say I did it. I want to do a real hike that involves 20 miles or more per day for several days in a row. Or at least more than two miles a day.<\/p>\n

I’ve discovered in my efforts to build up some small measure of endurance, though, that there are plenty of challenges right around me. <\/p>\n

I wanted to walk a 22 mile stretch of the Longleaf Trace Rails to Trails park by walking from Hattiesburg to Sumrall and back. I’m a long way from that kind of trip, but I did do six miles yesterday. Today I walked only four miles (four miles more than I was walking in any given week two months ago), but I did seek out a place to walk that is safe and near my office and a little more interesting than going in circles on a short track.<\/p>\n

Opportunities to make your own adventure are are all around. I should have learned this by now. My young nephews have been trying their best to teach me. I think they would be disappointed that I saw no signs of Big Foot on my walk today. We’ve been on the lookout for him for months, but he’s an elusive sort. They would be proud, though, that I set out to see what I could of the world from right where I found myself. The best trail is the one in front of you. There’s a lot to be said for this philosophy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(iPhone photo #37 in my 2012 365+1 project) I always<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,96,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iphoneography","category-resolution-journal","category-the-daily-happensnap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}