{"id":11975,"date":"2025-12-26T17:11:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T17:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/why-all-the-running-sporting-craze-draws-in-record-numbers\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T17:11:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T17:11:47","slug":"why-all-the-running-sporting-craze-draws-in-record-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/why-all-the-running-sporting-craze-draws-in-record-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Why all the running? Sporting craze draws in record numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/s.france24.com\/media\/display\/41a563e2-cf89-11f0-9a10-005056a90284\/w:1024\/p:16x9\/runninggg.png\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><br \/>It&#8217;s one of those New Year&#8217;s resolutions often blurted out after a big family meal. &#8220;I&#8217;m going to run a marathon!&#8221; But like the cautionary saying &#8220;puppies aren&#8217;t for Christmas, they&#8217;re for life&#8221;, one wonders how many realise the error of their ways when they&#8217;re gasping for air during that first January training run.\u00a0Or not.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tv-shows\/the-debate\/20251224-why-all-the-running-sporting-craze-draws-in-record-numbers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s one of those New Year&#8217;s resolutions often blurted out after a big family meal. &#8220;I&#8217;m going to run a marathon!&#8221; But&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3444],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare","category-sante"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}