{"id":888,"date":"2007-12-31T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2007\/12\/31\/one-foot-in-front-of-the-other\/"},"modified":"2017-06-08T21:05:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T04:05:40","slug":"one-foot-in-front-of-the-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2007\/12\/31\/one-foot-in-front-of-the-other\/","title":{"rendered":"One Foot in Front of the Other"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The forecast twenty degree temperatures never materialized, and it was a balmy thirty-one degrees when I awoke at 3:45 AM with something very, very wrong in my neck.  As near as I can tell at some point during the evening my body rolled but my head didn&#8217;t get the message, and my neck bore the brunt of this miscommunication.  In any case, after a short drive this morning I turned up the Mount Whitney Portal Road in Lone Pine, and then made a hike of the last few miles of road, past ice and rockfalls that were obviously the source of the &#8220;road closed&#8221; signs posted below.  This route is the homestretch of the 135-mile <a href=\"http:\/\/www.badwater.com\/\">Badwater Ultramarathon<\/a>, and it was with a renewed respect for those athletes that I huffed and puffed my way over the short distance and 2,000 foot elevation change to the trailhead.<\/p>\n<p>From that point all paths led homeward, and after a brief stop for a burrito (yum) and a car wash I was home and scrubbing mightily to remove the many layers of dirt that had accumulated over the past few days.  Now it&#8217;s one day of rest before heading back to work, and another six months before the great Iceland adventure brings more fodder for journal entries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The forecast twenty degree temperatures never materialized, and it was a balmy thirty-one degrees when I awoke at 3:45 AM with something very, very wrong in my neck. As near as I can tell at some point during the evening my body rolled but my head didn&#8217;t get the message, and my neck bore the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2007\/12\/31\/one-foot-in-front-of-the-other\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;One Foot in Front of the Other&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-man-trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11110,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions\/11110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}