{"id":41,"date":"2006-11-10T10:27:37","date_gmt":"2006-11-10T16:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/?p=41"},"modified":"2006-11-10T10:27:37","modified_gmt":"2006-11-10T16:27:37","slug":"scared-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/scared-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Scared Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went back to the pool on my way home from work last night.\u00c2\u00a0 Unlike the day before, the place was empty, which was fine with me.\u00c2\u00a0 I was just getting into the meat of the workout when a rather large woman came out and started arranging flotation devices around the side of the pool.\u00c2\u00a0 It didn&#8217;t take me long to realize she was the leader of the water buffalo that would soon appear.\u00c2\u00a0 Seeing them wade into the pool made it more than obvious why the place was deserted.\u00c2\u00a0 And I&#8217;m not just talking about the pool, either.\u00c2\u00a0 On Wednesday, the entire parking lot was full of cars and the whole gym was humming with people.\u00c2\u00a0 Having the water buffalo tromping around in their polyester tarpaulins is enough to scare everyone away&#8230; even me.\u00c2\u00a0 As soon as they removed the lane line, I got out and tried to avoid catching a glimpse of whatever they were doing as I high stepped out of there.<\/p>\n<p>I had been trying to follow my own advice and take less rest between intervals and have more intervals per set, but the cows chased me away.<\/p>\n<p>500 Free warm-up<br \/>\n5 x 100 Free @ 2:00 (coming in at 1:15)<br \/>\n200 Free warm-down<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\n1200 yards<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went back to the pool on my way home from work last night.\u00c2\u00a0 Unlike the day before, the place was empty, which was fine with me.\u00c2\u00a0 I was just getting into the meat of the workout when a rather &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/scared-off\/\">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":[2,10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-swimming","category-thoughts","category-workouts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","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=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}