{"id":440,"date":"2008-02-08T17:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T17:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/08\/swimming-rant\/"},"modified":"2008-02-08T17:53:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-08T17:53:00","slug":"swimming-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/08\/swimming-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"swimming rant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, to set the stage.   There were no signs on the doors and no clear indication on the website that the pool was, indeed, closed.   I got there and checked in, then asked if the pool was still open for lap swimming since there were a lot of high school kids around.  The answer was no, but that I could go over to the rec center and swim even though I don&#8217;t have a membership there.<\/p>\n<p>Back out into the cold and over to the rec center. It takes me a minute or so to figure out where to check in, then I ask for clarification and directions to get to the locker room and pool.  The directions aren&#8217;t clear, but I get there anyway.  Changed into my suit and then tried to find the exit to the pool.   I wandered around for several minutes, looking like an idiot, until I finally found an unmarked hallway leading to an unmarked door that looked like a utility closet &#8211; and that turned out to be the exit to the pool.   The rec center has only two lanes for lap swimming &#8211; and one was already taken.   I asked the lifeguard the distance of the lanes and she replied with a sigh of disgust &#8211; &#8220;25&#8221;.   Which wasn&#8217;t very helpful in that it could have been 25 meters or 25 yards &#8211; and that makes a difference when one is planning on swimming a mile.<\/p>\n<p>I decided to do 36 laps &#8211; which is either just enough or slightly more than I needed to do to get my distance.  I got in the pool and discovered another issue &#8211; the lanes were narrow.  Very narrow.  I&#8217;d guess about 3\/4 as wide or less than I&#8217;m used to.  The first few laps I was pretty much hitting the wall with either hands or feet (or both) on each stroke until I finally got my stroke modified.   Still felt like I was swimming in a spaghetti box.<\/p>\n<p>I also pushed off from the wall at one end and realized just how shallow it was.  I scraped my nose and my chest on the bottom of the pool.  I compensated for that as well, but it was still irksome.<\/p>\n<p>When I was finally done, I got out, got a shower, got dressed, and got the hell out of there.  <\/p>\n<p>So, I got in my swim.  Mostly uninjured.   And at an indeterminate distance.   I&#8217;ll be glad when the ONAT is open again.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7938355-5302536643455901725?l=approximatelyequalto.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, to set the stage. There were no signs on the doors and no clear indication on the website that the pool was, indeed, closed. I got there and checked in, then asked if the pool was still open for lap swimming since there were a lot of high school kids around. The answer was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-440","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\/440","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}