{"id":46072,"date":"2024-03-03T17:33:59","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T17:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46072"},"modified":"2024-06-08T14:01:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T14:01:33","slug":"1-2-miles-ows-sand-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46072","title":{"rendered":"1.2 miles OWS @ Sand Key"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My first open water swimming in years, 1.2 miles at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/?p=89931\">Sand Key Park<\/a>, came in at 59 minutes. My friend Linda did it in 53 min. Water temp is 69\u00b0F. Both of us wear 3mm wet suit (my first) &#8211; actually most of 167 swimmers wear wet suit. My leisure time in the pool for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46087\">1,000 yard is about 25 minutes<\/a>: a mile is 1,760 yards, 1.2 m = 2,112 yard.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46296\">1.2 miles in the pool<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_5647-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-46085\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_5647-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_5649-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-46084\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_5649-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/DateStamper_2609-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-46083\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/DateStamper_2609-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This race has 5km, 2.4mile, 1.2mile and .5mile length. The first two have bus to take them to their starting point. The later two &#8211; walk. Lucky we\u2019ve her husband who took our sandals, camera.<\/p>\n<p>The 167 swimmers: two kids under 14, join the 0.5 mile event. One 75-79 man is in 1.2 miles. Two teen and one 60-64 lady swim 5k meter event.<\/p>\n<p>I haven\u2019t done any real swim for nearly two months &#8211; swim a bit before and after tennis as warm up and stretch. So today is a test and I feel great. When I get a little tired I switch to frog front crowl.<\/p>\n<p>My friend is a seasoned outdoor person and brought fruits, multiple towels, shampoo n lotion etc \u2026 one would think these are so basic but I forgot them all; and also forgot my wallet: paid my lunch with Apple Pay. Maybe it\u2019s the convenience of Apple wallet that I don\u2019t bring my wallet often.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"#openwaterswimming #sandkeypark\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5VorUQgKHJc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_5716.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-46086 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_5716-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Getting up at 5:30, 5:57 waiting for the car pool outside 7:14, get to the park 8:08, walking toward our 1.2 miles starting point 8:30, race begins 9:28, I&#8217;m out of water &#8211; made it 10:30, award ceremony It&#8217;s a great race. My first time wearing a 3mm wetsuit to swim. Although I haven&#8217;t do any serious swim for months, but I didn&#8217;t struggle. I&#8217;m ok with my time. With some practice, I can improve<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first open water swimming in years, 1.2 miles at Sand Key Park, came in at 59 minutes. My friend Linda did it in 53 min. Water temp is 69\u00b0F. Both of us wear 3mm wet suit (my first) &#8211; actually most of 167 swimmers wear wet suit. My leisure time in the pool for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-swimming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46072","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}