{"id":2638,"date":"2014-02-28T09:49:51","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T14:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/?p=2638"},"modified":"2014-02-28T09:49:51","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T14:49:51","slug":"not-very-fishlike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/28\/not-very-fishlike\/","title":{"rendered":"Not very fishlike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the hardest parts about going to the pool in the morning is leaving the pool with wet hair.\u00a0 14 degrees out.\u00a0 Brr.\u00a0 Apparently, the average temp for this time of year is 51 degrees.\u00a0 I&#8217;m ready for winter to be over.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been tough to get back into the groove this week.\u00a0 Work has been crazy and I get home from work absolutely exhausted.\u00a0 Last night, I was supposed to go to swim practice but was in bed before practice even started.\u00a0 I slept like a rock, so I guess it was the right decision.\u00a0 Forced myself out of bed this morning to get to the pool though.\u00a0 I needed to swim at least once this week.<\/p>\n<p>It was a good swim.\u00a0 I ended up in one of the deep lap lanes, which I liked &#8211; no excuse to stop and stand around at the end of the lane.\u00a0 Plus there was less debris on the bottom, so it felt cleaner, even though it&#8217;s all the same body of water.\u00a0 Swimming past old bandaids makes me shudder.\u00a0 Give me a gross lake any day.\u00a0 Then I can&#8217;t see anything.<\/p>\n<p>The swim itself felt like a bit of a slog, possibly because I was up against so many very fast swimmers.\u00a0 My lane partner was only a bit faster than me, but the people in the lane next to me were swimming twice as fast as I was.\u00a0 However, even though it felt like a slog, it was a faster workout than last week, so I guess that&#8217;s good.\u00a0 Not sure if it&#8217;s improvement or just less standing around, but I&#8217;ll take it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m starting to think I should get music to take to the pool though.\u00a0 I just get bored about 30 minutes in.\u00a0 March is a 3 paycheck month, so I can afford a small splurge.\u00a0 Maybe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the hardest parts about going to the pool in the morning is leaving the pool with wet hair.\u00a0 14 degrees out.\u00a0 Brr.\u00a0 Apparently, the average temp for this time of year is 51 degrees.\u00a0 I&#8217;m ready for winter to be over. 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