{"id":228880,"date":"2025-04-23T15:43:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T19:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=228880"},"modified":"2025-09-16T11:36:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T15:36:04","slug":"uconn-health-half-marathon-motivational-mantras-that-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2025\/04\/uconn-health-half-marathon-motivational-mantras-that-work\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Health Half Marathon: Motivational Mantras That Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long distance running is a challenge both physically and mentally. Some runners use phrases or &#8220;mantras&#8221; to keep them focused on the present and to build resilience on especially difficult runs. UConn Health internal medicine physician, Jennifer Ozimek, has run the UConn Health Half Marathon in Simsbury for the past 5 years and has several mantras that help keep her motivated through to the finish line.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"UConn Health Half Marathon: Motivational Mantras That Work\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3ikXD9sayFg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UConn Health internal medicine physician Jennifer Ozimek has several mantras that help keep her motivated through to the finish line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":228891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1867],"class_list":["post-228880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uconn-health"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 11:31:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228880"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229255,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228880\/revisions\/229255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/228891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228880"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=228880"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=228880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}