{"id":2250,"date":"2017-08-23T23:45:32","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T23:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/?p=2250"},"modified":"2017-08-23T23:45:32","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T23:45:32","slug":"incidentally-hauling-ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/23\/incidentally-hauling-ass\/","title":{"rendered":"Incidentally Hauling Ass"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had plans to give blood last week and since that puts me out of commission for a bit for swimming, I decided to do a mile the day before.<\/span><\/p>\n

I hit the pool after work and set a pretty good pace. \u00a0I kept track of my laps and sort of kept track of the time – though I had allocated plenty and was more concerned with distance than the time.<\/span><\/p>\n

When I finished up I noted the time and made an educated guess on when I started. \u00a0If I was right in how long it took me to get changed into my trunks, I had done a mile in 42-43 minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Which is not too shabby for me. \u00a0The last time I had really paid attention I had done the mile in about an hour. \u00a0\u00a0Without really being focused on it, I\u2019d managed to cut a huge chunk of time off my swim.<\/span><\/p>\n

But it was an estimate and I could have been way off. \u00a0I do change my clothes pretty fast, after all.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, today I was back at the pool and decided to intentionally – instead of incidentally – haul some speedo-ed ass.<\/span><\/p>\n

The pool was set to the short lanes and that\u2019s always a little easier. \u00a0I planned on short breaks at \u2153 and \u2154 of a mile and took off. \u00a0I kept track of the laps in my head. \u00a0.5 to the end, 1 when I got back. \u00a01.5, then 2. \u00a02.5, then 3. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Breathe and quick goggle rinse at 12. \u00a0Repeat. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I started at 4:19 and was done at 4:57 \u2026. \u00a038 minutes. \u00a0\u00a0A new personal best. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If I can cut my breaks down a bit, I could shave even more time off. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And I\u2019ve got a goal. \u00a030 minutes. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0At that pace, I would be swimming at 2 miles an hour. \u00a0And that, friends, would be awesome.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had plans to give blood last week and since that puts me out of commission for a bit for swimming, I decided to do a mile the day before. I hit the pool after work and set a pretty good pace. \u00a0I kept track of my laps and sort of kept track of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2251,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions\/2251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}