{"id":387,"date":"2009-05-04T08:05:45","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T13:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noelfigart.com\/blog\/?p=387"},"modified":"2009-05-04T08:05:45","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T13:05:45","slug":"swimmin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/04\/swimmin\/","title":{"rendered":"Swimmin'"},"content":{"rendered":"


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I put in my 1500.\u00a0 Only 86,000 yards to go!\u00a0 The lifeguard was funny. “How many miles did you do today, young lady?”<\/p>\n

Yeah, right…\u00a0 If he’s more than ten years older than I am I’ll swim 2000 tomorrow.\u00a0 I still wish I could have retorted, “One.”\u00a0 The challenge clocks the yardage in 500 yard blocks, so it’s not like I can work up incrementally and get up to a mile slowly if I want the milage to count.\u00a0 Even so, I wouldn’t be surprised if in the next couple of months, swimming a 2000 (which, for the purposes of clocking the challenge is the distance closest to a mile) is going to be my basic swim.<\/p>\n

Today’s swim was okay.\u00a0 I got into that zone where your body is working hard, but your mind just starts to float and drift.\u00a0 I don’t get that for every workout, but when it happens, I really like it.\u00a0 It mellows me out a lot.<\/p>\n

Not many people have signed up for the fifty mile challenge this summer, and all the ones that did were the triathletes and the Masters swimmers.\u00a0 I have<\/em> to complete it now, just out of stubbon pride.\u00a0 Besides, since I work at the gym and all, not following through would be embarrassing.\u00a0 No, I’m not biting off more than I can chew with this.\u00a0 6,000 a week is pretty doable, even on a busy week.<\/p>\n

Speaking of busy, I have clients who need my services and wouldn’t want to leave them twitching.\u00a0 Work time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I put in my 1500.\u00a0 Only 86,000 yards to go!\u00a0 The lifeguard was funny. “How many miles did you do today, young lady?” Yeah, right…\u00a0 If he’s more than ten years older than I am I’ll swim 2000 tomorrow.\u00a0 I still wish I could have retorted, “One.”\u00a0 The challenge clocks the yardage in 500 yard … <\/p>\n

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