{"id":497,"date":"2015-03-21T00:41:08","date_gmt":"2015-03-21T00:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/?p=497"},"modified":"2016-08-21T01:03:22","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T01:03:22","slug":"madridlisbon-workout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/?p=497","title":{"rendered":"Madrid\/Lisbon Workout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working out at the gym for months, with Madrid as my motivation. I need all the strength and stamina I can muster. I go four days a week, one of them with a great trainer, Jessica Bowman. She&#8217;s got me running stairs, which is brilliant. It makes total sense if you know how much time I spend climbing and descending stairs in museum. I do upper body weights with the goal of being able to heave my carry-on luggage into the overhead bin on the airplanes. True confession: I also play the old lady card. Hey, gray hair and seniority\u00a0 is good for something. Usually someone offers to give me a hand.<\/p>\n<p>Today was typical &#8211; I pedaled for 50 minutes on a recumbent bike, stretched, then did a back\/ ab machine for another ten minutes.<\/p>\n<p>I am not kidding myself that this in any way equals what the upcoming Madrid\/ Lisbon trip will require of me, but it does keep me limber. I shift into a another gear on the road. The adrenalin and endorphins released when I&#8217;m standing in front of great art, the mental agility required to navigate each day in a strange land, plus the complete lack of routine seems to tap into resources I can&#8217;t usually access.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-498\" src=\"https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/prado-museum-madrid-300x198.png\" alt=\"prado-museum-madrid\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/prado-museum-madrid-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/prado-museum-madrid-624x413.png 624w, https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/prado-museum-madrid.png 821w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working out at the gym for months, with Madrid as my motivation. I need all the strength and stamina I can muster. I go four days a week, one of them with a great trainer, Jessica Bowman. She&#8217;s got me running stairs, which is brilliant. It makes total sense if you know how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[19,3],"tags":[121,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-497","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-madrid","8":"category-preparation","9":"tag-preparation","10":"tag-strategy","11":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/prado-museum-madrid.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7OBxc-81","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500,"href":"https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions\/500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}