{"id":466,"date":"2006-11-16T15:11:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-16T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravenfamily.org\/sam\/?p=466"},"modified":"2006-11-16T15:11:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-16T15:11:00","slug":"swimming-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ravenfamily.org\/sam\/2006\/11\/16\/swimming-golf\/","title":{"rendered":"Swimming Golf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ravenfamily.org\/sam\/avatars\/tgbath1.jpg\" alt=\"Splosh\" hspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" \/>This is a way of testing your swimming proficiency in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.totalimmersion.co.uk\/\">Total Immersion<\/a> way of swimming, which I&#8217;m currently trying to teach myself.<\/p>\n<p>What you do is you swim 50m and count the number of strokes it takes (each time a hand enters the water it counts as one stroke), then add that number to the number of seconds it takes you to swim that distance. The lower your score the better a swimmer you are.<\/p>\n<p>I found counting my strokes the hard part.<\/p>\n<p>I am somewhat gutted to discover that my &#8216;par&#8217; is a whopping 107. Then again, I am still learning and I haven&#8217;t quite got my balance and glide right, and I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m putting too much effort into the stroke rather than letting the corkscrew effect do the work.<\/p>\n<p>There was a slight panic when I discovered that the pool is closing for a month on the 4th December for maintenance and they told me the only pools open would be Cowdenbeath and St Andrews. Both of these are quite some distance. However I phoned Kirkcaldy when I got home and they&#8217;re only closing for Christmas, which is just as well as I could feel another letter to Fife Council coming on. As much as they said they liked the last one (even though it was a complaint &mdash; it was an <i>entertaining<\/i> complaint), I don&#8217;t want to make too much of a nuisance of myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a way of testing your swimming proficiency in the Total Immersion way of swimming, which I&#8217;m currently trying to teach myself. 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