{"id":288,"date":"2005-01-26T12:42:33","date_gmt":"2005-01-26T12:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/2005\/01\/26\/beatbeatbeatbeat\/"},"modified":"2005-01-26T12:42:33","modified_gmt":"2005-01-26T12:42:33","slug":"beatbeatbeatbeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/archives\/beatbeatbeatbeat.html","title":{"rendered":"Beat..Beat..Beat..Beat.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;it&#8217;s the only sound I hear as I move through the water, my head completely submerged, cutting serenely like a needle through butter, my heartbeat climbing higher and higher.  I force my body to rotate back and forth faster, which makes my arms stroke at a higher rate and press against the water harder.  I feel a burn in my arms and shoulders as my breath quickens and I try to maintain my already high pace.  In response to my coach yelling at the begining of the lap &#8220;Dave, swim faster&#8230;PUSH&#8221;, I ignore the discomfort in my lungs, the oxygen quickly draining from my system.  My mind starts telling me to back off, but I quell the thought viciously as I quickly survey my condition and determine that it is only discomfort I feel and not a flame out.  I calm down and relax more, which lowers my heart rate and I stroke even faster, striving for the end of the lap&#8230;or in my mind&#8217;s eye, the finish line&#8230;.<br \/>\nBeat..beat..beat..beat&#8230;<br \/>\nCountdown to Ironman: 5.5 weeks&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;it&#8217;s the only sound I hear as I move through the water, my head completely submerged, cutting serenely like a needle through butter, my heartbeat climbing higher and higher. I force my body to rotate back and forth faster, which makes my arms stroke at a higher rate and press against the water harder. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}