{"id":557,"date":"2006-06-26T14:34:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-26T14:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravenfamily.org\/sam\/?p=557"},"modified":"2006-06-26T14:34:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-26T14:34:00","slug":"something-of-an-anti-climax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ravenfamily.org\/sam\/2006\/06\/26\/something-of-an-anti-climax\/","title":{"rendered":"Something of an anti-climax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ravenfamily.org\/sam\/avatars\/tgbath1.jpg\" alt=\"What's a good pace for swimming anyway?\" hspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" \/>As I was saying to <a href=\"http:\/\/andygates.livejournal.com\">Munky<\/a> yesterday on the phone, my current swimming goal for the half hour I can spare at lunchtime is 500m crawl, then 250m crawl wearing my <a href=\"http:\/\/ravenfamily.org\/sam\/frog\/graphics\/fishfingers.jpg\">Aquasphere gloves<\/a> then another 500m crawl. That adds up to 1250m. In half an hour. Which yesterday sounded completely nuts.<\/p>\n<p>Only I&#8217;ve just done it. OK, so it took me 32 minutes, not 30, but still.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know whether to be dead chuffed or miffed that I am obviously piss-poor at goal setting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I was saying to Munky yesterday on the phone, my current swimming goal for the half hour I can spare at lunchtime is 500m crawl, then 250m crawl wearing my Aquasphere gloves then another 500m crawl. That adds up to 1250m. In half an hour. Which yesterday sounded completely nuts. Only I&#8217;ve just done [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Something of an anti-climax ~ Singularity<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ravenfamily.org\/sam\/2006\/06\/26\/something-of-an-anti-climax\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Something of an anti-climax ~ Singularity\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As I was saying to Munky yesterday on the phone, my current swimming goal for the half hour I can spare at lunchtime is 500m crawl, then 250m crawl wearing my Aquasphere gloves then another 500m crawl. 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