{"id":670,"date":"2013-05-22T14:01:23","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T21:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/?p=670"},"modified":"2013-05-22T14:01:23","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T21:01:23","slug":"sharks-at-the-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/sharks-at-the-pool\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks at the pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every now and then there&#8217;s someone really fast at the pool. Today was no exception. When I arrived I saw a girl standing in lane 4 that I&#8217;ve seen before. She&#8217;s really fast. I can swim faster than she can, but only if we&#8217;re both swimming freestyle and I&#8217;m sprinting and she&#8217;s not. I haven&#8217;t ever seen her sprint, but I wouldn&#8217;t be too surprised to find out she&#8217;s faster than me. But maybe not. We&#8217;ll probably never know.<\/p>\n<p>The pool was fairly crowded, but I managed to get lane 6 to myself. There was a slow guy in lane 7 and a fast guy in lane 5. He wasn&#8217;t as fast as I am, but he was pretty fast. I started going through my usual routine when a bunch of girls started showing up and sharing lanes with people. I was pulling with my giant hand paddles, so I got to keep my lane to myself.<\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t take long to realize these new girls were sharks. They were the fastest swimmers I have ever seen in that pool. I couldn&#8217;t keep up with them. The girl in lane 8 was obviously a sprinter. She was barely even touching the water as she flew down the lane.<\/p>\n<p>I was on somewhat of a compressed schedule, so I just got out and went home. I don&#8217;t mind losing to a girl every now and then, but when there are 3 girls so fast it makes me feel like I don&#8217;t actually know how to swim, that&#8217;s too much for me.<\/p>\n<p>500 free<br \/>\n5 x 100 free under 1:15 on 1:55<br \/>\n5 x 100 kick under 1:30 on 2:00<br \/>\n500 pull with paddles<br \/>\n200 free warm-down<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\n2200 yards<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every now and then there&#8217;s someone really fast at the pool. Today was no exception. When I arrived I saw a girl standing in lane 4 that I&#8217;ve seen before. She&#8217;s really fast. I can swim faster than she can, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/sharks-at-the-pool\/\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-swimming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","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=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}