{"id":4922,"date":"2017-02-07T09:58:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T14:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/?p=4922"},"modified":"2017-02-07T09:58:51","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T14:58:51","slug":"coeur-half-century-swim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/07\/coeur-half-century-swim\/","title":{"rendered":"Coeur Half-Century Swim"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This weekend, I did something crazy. \u00a0One of my Coeur teammates set-up a challenge – get together to swim 100×100. \u00a0Now, there was no way that I was going to be able to do a full century swim, but this event was totally friendly to all ability levels, and we were all encouraged to set our own goals. \u00a0There were over 30 people there, which was pretty impressive. \u00a0I felt bad for the regulars at the pool – they just kept looking for an open lane and figuring we had to be done soon. \u00a0That said, we were only taking up 4 lanes.<\/p>\n

I set my goal at 50×100. \u00a05000 yards in the pool.<\/p>\n

When I was setting my goal, I wanted something that was challenging, but also something that I could achieve. \u00a0I’m honestly not sure what the longest swim I’ve ever done was, but I’m betting it was somewhere around 3000. \u00a0That said, I’m doing the 4500 swim at Fort Ritchie Swimfest at the end of May, so I wanted to see just how much training I need to do to comfortably be able to complete that swim. \u00a0But even the night before, I was debating whether or not I wanted to drop my goal to 4000.<\/p>\n

This was an awesome event to be a part of. \u00a0There were people of a lot of ability levels participating, and there was zero judgment in the slow lane, or from anyone in the fast lanes. \u00a0We were all out there challenging ourselves and getting it done.<\/p>\n

I definitely wasn’t attempting to swim 5000 without any breaks. \u00a0There were chat breaks at the end of the lane, bathroom breaks, snack breaks, water breaks. \u00a0Whatever it took to get through the workout.<\/p>\n

I definitely hit a bit of a wall somewhere around 3000. \u00a0I couldn’t believe that I was only 3\/5ths done. \u00a0But once I pushed through and hit 4000, doing an extra thousand didn’t sound so bad. \u00a0For me, it’s all about breaking up a big workout into manageable chunks.<\/p>\n

And while the company was clearly the best part of the workout, the second best part was the delicious Honeymoon Ice Cream sandwiches afterwards. \u00a0YUM. \u00a0I’ll do just about anything for good ice cream.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This weekend, I did something crazy. \u00a0One of my Coeur teammates set-up a challenge – get together to swim 100×100. \u00a0Now, there was no way that I was going to be able to do a full century swim, but this event was totally friendly to all ability levels, and we were all encouraged to set […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\nCoeur Half-Century Swim - Elbowglitter<\/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:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/07\/coeur-half-century-swim\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Coeur Half-Century Swim - Elbowglitter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This weekend, I did something crazy. \u00a0One of my Coeur teammates set-up a challenge – get together to swim 100×100. \u00a0Now, there was no way that I was going to be able to do a full century swim, but this event was totally friendly to all ability levels, and we were all encouraged to set […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/07\/coeur-half-century-swim\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Elbowglitter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-02-07T14:58:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-02-07T14:58:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_3643-300x225.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Megan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Megan\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/07\/coeur-half-century-swim\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/07\/coeur-half-century-swim\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Megan\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/f22c797e4ef4db1718a066ac354deba6\"},\"headline\":\"Coeur Half-Century Swim\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-02-07T14:58:49+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-02-07T14:58:51+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/07\/coeur-half-century-swim\/\"},\"wordCount\":367,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/f22c797e4ef4db1718a066ac354deba6\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Triathlon\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/07\/coeur-half-century-swim\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/07\/coeur-half-century-swim\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/07\/coeur-half-century-swim\/\",\"name\":\"Coeur Half-Century Swim - Elbowglitter\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2017-02-07T14:58:49+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-02-07T14:58:51+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/07\/coeur-half-century-swim\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/07\/coeur-half-century-swim\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/07\/coeur-half-century-swim\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Coeur Half-Century Swim\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"Elbowglitter\",\"description\":\"Getting back to running and other adventures\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/f22c797e4ef4db1718a066ac354deba6\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":[\"Person\",\"Organization\"],\"@id\":\"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/f22c797e4ef4db1718a066ac354deba6\",\"name\":\"Megan\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/0.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c4db1c919d5cef58581b42cbf04a4878?s=96&d=mm&r=pg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/0.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c4db1c919d5cef58581b42cbf04a4878?s=96&d=mm&r=pg\",\"caption\":\"Megan\"},\"logo\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\"},\"url\":\"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/author\/megan\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Coeur Half-Century Swim - Elbowglitter","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/07\/coeur-half-century-swim\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Coeur Half-Century Swim - Elbowglitter","og_description":"This weekend, I did something crazy. \u00a0One of my Coeur teammates set-up a challenge – get together to swim 100×100. \u00a0Now, there was no way that I was going to be able to do a full century swim, but this event was totally friendly to all ability levels, and we were all encouraged to set […]","og_url":"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/07\/coeur-half-century-swim\/","og_site_name":"Elbowglitter","article_published_time":"2017-02-07T14:58:49+00:00","article_modified_time":"2017-02-07T14:58:51+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_3643-300x225.jpg"}],"author":"Megan","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Megan","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/07\/coeur-half-century-swim\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/07\/coeur-half-century-swim\/"},"author":{"name":"Megan","@id":"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/f22c797e4ef4db1718a066ac354deba6"},"headline":"Coeur Half-Century Swim","datePublished":"2017-02-07T14:58:49+00:00","dateModified":"2017-02-07T14:58:51+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/07\/coeur-half-century-swim\/"},"wordCount":367,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/f22c797e4ef4db1718a066ac354deba6"},"articleSection":["Triathlon"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/07\/coeur-half-century-swim\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/07\/coeur-half-century-swim\/","url":"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/07\/coeur-half-century-swim\/","name":"Coeur Half-Century Swim - Elbowglitter","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2017-02-07T14:58:49+00:00","dateModified":"2017-02-07T14:58:51+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/07\/coeur-half-century-swim\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/07\/coeur-half-century-swim\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/07\/coeur-half-century-swim\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Coeur Half-Century Swim"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/","name":"Elbowglitter","description":"Getting back to running and other adventures","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/f22c797e4ef4db1718a066ac354deba6"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":["Person","Organization"],"@id":"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/f22c797e4ef4db1718a066ac354deba6","name":"Megan","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"http:\/\/0.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c4db1c919d5cef58581b42cbf04a4878?s=96&d=mm&r=pg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/0.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c4db1c919d5cef58581b42cbf04a4878?s=96&d=mm&r=pg","caption":"Megan"},"logo":{"@id":"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/"},"url":"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/author\/megan\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfIrH-1ho","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6060,"url":"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/01\/january-mileage-update-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":4922,"position":0},"title":"January Mileage Update","date":"February 1, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"I really liked tracking my mileage last year, so this year, I set some concrete mileage goals and headed out to meet them. You know what they say about the best laid plans. But injuries happen, and goals are meant to be adjusted as circumstances change.\u00a0 So rather than being\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Fitness"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/triathlon_1517496794.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4924,"url":"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/08\/wednesday-workout-recap-86\/","url_meta":{"origin":4922,"position":1},"title":"Wednesday Workout Recap","date":"February 8, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Last week wasn't much better than the week before. \u00a0Don't I realize I have a race this weekend? \u00a0Whatever, maybe it's a two week taper... three week taper. \u00a0Something. Monday - Choir rehearsals. \u00a0I've figured a way to get in good balance between late rehearsals and work the next day\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Week in Review"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1757,"url":"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/26\/early-morning-swim\/","url_meta":{"origin":4922,"position":2},"title":"Early Morning Swim","date":"April 26, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I get to the pool relatively early on Tuesday mornings.\u00a0 The local youth swim teams have a bunch of lanes reserved from 4:30-6:15 am, but open swim starts at 6, and the kids are typically out of the pool and into the locker rooms by that point. Typically, I get\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Triathlon"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/medium_703041790.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2825,"url":"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/10\/thoughts-while-swimming\/","url_meta":{"origin":4922,"position":3},"title":"Thoughts while swimming","date":"June 10, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"When I swim at the pool by myself, I sort of get lost in my thoughts.\u00a0 I focus on form and all, but I also find my mind wandering.\u00a0 And man, it wanders in weird places. I probably should have eaten breakfast before swimming.\u00a0 I'm hungry. I wonder what that\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 2 comments","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2852,"url":"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/30\/monday-morning-workout\/","url_meta":{"origin":4922,"position":4},"title":"Monday Morning Workout","date":"June 30, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"5:00 - Alarm goes off.\u00a0 20 seconds later, leap out of bed.\u00a0 Morning!\u00a0 It is morning! Put on swimsuit.\u00a0 Put work clothes over swimsuit.\u00a0 Check three times to make sure proper undergarments are in swim bag, as a wet swimsuit does not qualify as proper undergarments for work. Peer in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Triathlon"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2686,"url":"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/19\/trying-to-improve-my-swimming\/","url_meta":{"origin":4922,"position":5},"title":"Trying to improve my swimming","date":"March 19, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Hit this pool this morning.\u00a0 I've discovered that I do better when I swim in the deep lap lanes.\u00a0 Because I can't stand, I don't stop at the end to adjust my goggles or what have you.\u00a0 It's just easier to keep moving.\u00a0 Plus I've discovered there are fewer flailing\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Triathlon"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/pool_lane_rope-300x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4922"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4923,"href":"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4922\/revisions\/4923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}