{"id":3908,"date":"2020-11-02T10:14:42","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T10:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raceatyourpace.co.uk\/?p=3908"},"modified":"2020-11-02T10:31:51","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T10:31:51","slug":"carol-graham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raceatyourpace.co.uk\/carol-graham\/","title":{"rendered":"Carol Graham"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ss-desc-text\">After taking early retirement, I wanted something to keep me occupied and joined a Couch to 5k running program.<\/div>\n<h3>After taking early retirement, I wanted something to keep me occupied and joined a Couch to 5k running program.<\/h3>\n<p>Having never ran in my life \u2013 not even for a bus I completed the course 3 days before I turned 60. If I can do it anyone can, I was overweight and have had surgery for Scoliosis (curvature of the spine) leaving me with a steel rod and nuts and bolts in my spine.<\/p>\n<p>I saw your virtual running \/ walking medals and decided to enter the 75 miles \/ month for the whole year. Inspired with the mileage I did in Jan, I set my own goal of 100 miles per month.<\/p>\n<p>I managed to do the grand total of 1215 miles for the year. This was a combination for running and walking. Having the medals each month kept me motivated and great excitement when I received each one.<\/p>\n<p>I have since joined a local running club and continue to keep running and have lost 2 stone in weight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After taking early retirement, I wanted something to keep me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Carol Graham - Race At Your Pace<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.raceatyourpace.co.uk\/carol-graham\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Carol Graham - 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