{"id":4528,"date":"2020-06-23T19:49:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T16:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urkod.com\/?p=4528"},"modified":"2020-11-14T21:51:05","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T19:51:05","slug":"%d8%a7%d9%88%d9%84-%d8%b9%d8%b4%d8%b1%d8%a9-%d9%83%d9%8a%d9%84%d9%88%d9%85%d8%aa%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%aa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urkod.com\/en\/%d8%a7%d9%88%d9%84-%d8%b9%d8%b4%d8%b1%d8%a9-%d9%83%d9%8a%d9%84%d9%88%d9%85%d8%aa%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%aa\/","title":{"rendered":"2- 10 Kilometers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Through my regular running routine, my physical fitness has improved significantly, and I am now able to run five kilometers fairly well. It\u2019s important to note here that \u201cfairly well\u201d does not mean \u201ceasily,\u201d but rather \u201ccapable of,\u201d since I am now able to Run<\/a> It took some effort to cover that distance, and it just so happened that during that period I attended a conference related to my job, and one of the activities organized by the conference organizers was Race<\/a> Participants can run or walk the five-kilometer course, depending on their preference. I recall that I placed sixty-third out of about two hundred participants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That result encouraged me to keep running, but I needed to find a way to stay motivated. After searching online, I found a group on a social media site called (Running Amman<\/a>) and decided to join them on one of their runs, just to try it out<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One Friday morning in December 2018, I remember it was very cold, and after a long internal debate, I decided to go out for a run with that group. We were supposed to meet in front of one of Amman\u2019s lovely cafes at a quarter to eight, with the run set to start at eight sharp. I arrived twenty minutes before the meeting time and found only one person there\u2014I didn\u2019t know if he was part of the group or not. I waited in my car for ten minutes, but no one else showed up. I asked him, \u201cAre you waiting for the running group?\u201d He replied, \u201cYes.\u201d \u201cDo you think they\u2019ll come?\u201d I asked. \u201cYes,\u201d he said, \u201cthey usually arrive right on time or a few minutes early.\u201d A few minutes later, the runners began to arrive. There were about twenty runners of various ages, ranging from young adults in their early twenties to those over fifty. At exactly 8:00 a.m., we took a group photo and started running.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a tough day; despite my earnest attempts to keep up with the group, I couldn\u2019t catch up to any of them, and I lost my running rhythm after I found it impossible to maintain their pace. I slowed down as exhaustion set in and jogged back to my car. I checked my phone and was very pleased to see that I had run eight kilometers, but all I wanted at that moment was to go home, have breakfast, and get some much-needed rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following week, I joined the group again and ran ten kilometers. I was so happy that day\u2014I, who had never imagined I could run even two kilometers, managed to run ten that day thanks to that wonderful group. I decided to join them every Friday, and I only missed a session on rare occasions and for unavoidable reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the story of The Beginning<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Through my regular running routine, my physical fitness has improved significantly, and I am now able to run five kilometers fairly well. It\u2019s important to note here that \u201cfairly well\u201d does not mean \u201ceasily,\u201d but rather \u201ccapable of,\u201d since I am now able to<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urkod.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urkod.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urkod.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urkod.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urkod.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4528"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/urkod.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5128,"href":"https:\/\/urkod.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528\/revisions\/5128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urkod.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urkod.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urkod.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urkod.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}