{"id":2664,"date":"2024-04-03T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andylockran.dev\/?p=2664"},"modified":"2024-04-04T09:27:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T08:27:22","slug":"swim-training-2-850m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andylockran.dev\/index.php\/2024\/04\/03\/swim-training-2-850m\/","title":{"rendered":"Swim Training #2 &#8211; ~850m"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This morning I was pleased to get up and make it to Leytonstone Leisure centre, only 5 minutes after my expected start time after being too tempted to hit the snooze button.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/andylockran.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/pVRFuQI_gjZhVtx-OwYu7z7-9wiGw-W8q-q3Spz01nQ-2048x1365-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"16 minutes, 51 seconds swim time.\nDistance 850m\n\" class=\"wp-image-2666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/andylockran.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/pVRFuQI_gjZhVtx-OwYu7z7-9wiGw-W8q-q3Spz01nQ-2048x1365-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/andylockran.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/pVRFuQI_gjZhVtx-OwYu7z7-9wiGw-W8q-q3Spz01nQ-2048x1365-1.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/andylockran.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/pVRFuQI_gjZhVtx-OwYu7z7-9wiGw-W8q-q3Spz01nQ-2048x1365-1.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/andylockran.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/pVRFuQI_gjZhVtx-OwYu7z7-9wiGw-W8q-q3Spz01nQ-2048x1365-1.jpg?w=1500&amp;ssl=1 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I did 8 lengths without any fins on and focusing on head position and stroke technique.  I felt comfortable in the pool, but even in the medium lane I&#8217;ve started catching up with others in the pool. This is a massive surprise to me, and I&#8217;m not used to stroking peoples feet!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not quite having the confidence to jump into the fast lane, I put on my flippers first and focused mostly on my breathing and arm strokes.  I was able to temper my kicking to keep myself short of the fast swimmers in front of me.  I recently got gifted some FORM goggles, so used these to try and see whether my head position was in a better place.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I came out the pool feeling happy; breathing better, and I swallowed far less air that I&#8217;ve done in ages.  I could even start enjoying it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I was pleased to get up and make it to Leytonstone Leisure centre, only 5 minutes after my expected start time after being too tempted to hit the snooze button. I did 8 lengths without any fins on and focusing on head position and stroke technique. I felt comfortable in the pool, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[259,252],"class_list":["post-2664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exercise","category-swimming","tag-swimming","tag-triathlon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andylockran.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andylockran.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andylockran.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andylockran.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andylockran.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/andylockran.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2667,"href":"https:\/\/andylockran.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664\/revisions\/2667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andylockran.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andylockran.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andylockran.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}