{"id":31,"date":"2008-04-03T19:27:45","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T00:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gregghgordon.com\/?p=31"},"modified":"2008-04-22T20:33:41","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T01:33:41","slug":"gonna-be-a-long-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gregghgordon.com\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"Gonna be a long weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">It\u2019s been a decent week of training but not great.<span> <\/span>I swam a mile straight for the first time this season and felt totally relaxed and able to easily swim quite a bit more.<span> <\/span>I usually put together swim workouts that comprise of a warmup, a couple of main sets, and if there\u2019s time, drills and kicking.<span> <\/span>Typically, the distances add up to 1.5 to 2.0 miles in a session, but I rarely do it straight through.<span> <\/span>That\u2019ll be the focus in the coming weeks as I\u2019ll work towards doing a straight 1.5 mile swim, and eventually 2.0 miles straight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I\u2019m going to my college roommate\u2019s house on Friday night to celebrate his birthday and figured that I\u2019d do a 90 mile bike ride the next morning on the service road of the Long Island Expressway since it\u2019s much flatter than the route that I normally take in NJ for my long rides.<span> <\/span>The Brazil course is said to be rather flat, thus my desire to avoid hill training as much as I can\u2026 for now.<span> <\/span>On Sunday, I\u2019m planning on an 18 mile run in Central Park.<span> <\/span>I think that psychologically, it won\u2019t be that hard since I\u2019ll be doing a couple of extra lower loops where many tourists are, thus providing me with lots of distractions to the fact that\u2026 egad\u2026 I\u2019ll be running 18 ridiculous miles!<span> <\/span>Rest assured, I\u2019ll have water stops available to me this time around!<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">More to come on how the extreme distances worked out for me\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a decent week of training but not great. I swam a mile straight for the first time this season and felt totally relaxed and able to easily swim quite a bit more. I usually put together swim workouts that comprise of a warmup, a couple of main sets, and if there\u2019s time, drills [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gregghgordon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gregghgordon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gregghgordon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gregghgordon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gregghgordon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gregghgordon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gregghgordon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gregghgordon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gregghgordon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}