{"id":170,"date":"2009-03-01T22:49:31","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T05:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/?p=170"},"modified":"2009-03-03T10:01:27","modified_gmt":"2009-03-03T17:01:27","slug":"friday-on-the-trainer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/friday-on-the-trainer\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday on the trainer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charmaine talked me into riding our bikes and watching a couple episodes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tv.com\/the-west-wing\/show\/189\/summary.html\" target=\"_blank\">The West Wing<\/a> Friday night. I&#8217;m hoping that I&#8217;ll start getting used to being in the saddle, but so far I don&#8217;t last more than about 40 minutes before I&#8217;m pretty uncomfortable.  We ended up finishing the first episode and got about 5 minutes into the next episode before I couldn&#8217;t take it any more. I think that means we rode about 50 minutes, which is pretty good for me. Other than the 25 mile ride in last year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.burleylions.org\/spudman.html\" target=\"_blank\">Spudman Triathlon<\/a>, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve been on my bike this long.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday Charmaine jumped back on the trainer again. I was in no condition to hurt myself again, so I felt a bit bad about letting her ride on her own. She didn&#8217;t want me to feel bad about it, so she said she would be pretty quick. More than 2 hours later she was still riding. I think it&#8217;s pretty obvious that I&#8217;m holding her back on this training thing. Hopefully I&#8217;ll start to catch up one of these weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charmaine talked me into riding our bikes and watching a couple episodes of The West Wing Friday night. I&#8217;m hoping that I&#8217;ll start getting used to being in the saddle, but so far I don&#8217;t last more than about 40 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/friday-on-the-trainer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spinning","category-workouts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}