{"id":1429,"date":"2008-02-03T22:34:06","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T02:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/2008\/02\/03\/gone-swimming-2\/"},"modified":"2008-02-03T22:34:06","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T02:34:06","slug":"gone-swimming-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=1429","title":{"rendered":"Gone swimming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'\">Finally, I made it to the pool 8am this morning!\u00a0 OMG I still remember how to swim.\u00a0 Everything looks the same, except the elevator is out of service.\u00a0 When I left, there was an elder man on wheel chair trying to get down through the stairs.\u00a0 I did 10 laps, without missing a single flip-turns but over 10 minutes: speed is gone so is my endurance.\u00a0 Next 10 laps was mixed with breast\u00a0with free and breast plus few pit stops.\u00a0 When\u00a0an annoying man joined the lane, I was about to start my last few laps.\u00a0 He went ahead.\u00a0 That&#8217;s fine, I didn&#8217;t have to work to hard to maintain the lead.\u00a0 But after two laps, I caught up with him.\u00a0 And again in another two laps.\u00a0 So I told him to let me go.\u00a0 He screamed, &#8220;then why didn&#8217;t you go?&#8221;\u00a0 The lane is standard, if the swimmer isn&#8217;t considerate, it&#8217;s very hard for the one that&#8217;s behind to pass\u00a0at the end.\u00a0 So I gone ahead, swam hard, trying to maintain the lead.\u00a0 It actually it&#8217;s great.\u00a0\u00a0 I ended up did straight 20 laps, caught up with him twice more.\u00a0 I never thought I&#8217;d do 40 laps.\u00a0 After that, I did another 10.\u00a0 So 50 laps in total.\u00a0 Wow &#8230; not bad for\u00a0absent for so long .. SO\u00a0Giants will win too, :<\/span>-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, I made it to the pool 8am this morning!\u00a0 OMG I still remember how to swim.\u00a0 Everything looks the same, except the elevator is out of service.\u00a0 When I left, there was an elder man on wheel chair trying to get down through the stairs.\u00a0 I did 10 laps, without missing a single flip-turns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-1429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-swim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}