{"id":378,"date":"2004-04-28T22:04:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-28T22:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2004\/04\/378\/"},"modified":"2004-04-28T22:04:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-28T22:04:00","slug":"378","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2004\/04\/378\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Standing here, drenched in sweat and barely able to stand straight.  Not a pretty site.  Why?  For some unkown reason I have been posessed with the urge to row a marathon (42,195m) on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.concept2.com\/\">Concept2<\/a> Model C rower.  The first two hours were fine, but I nearly died over the last 90 minutes.  My time?  A grueling 3 hours, 18 minutes, 43.9 seconds.  Believe me, the 0.9 seconds is important.<\/p>\n<p><b>Thursday morning:<\/b>  I ache all over &#8211; the severe buttock pain from last night has lost its edge, but my legs are ruined, and I feel like I have rowed about 26 miles.  Funny that.  Good preparation for the cricket season on Saturday.  Normally the first 45 overs of wicket keeping is desperately hard, but hopefully the 20,000m a week I am rowing will take the edge off that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standing here, drenched in sweat and barely able to stand straight. Not a pretty site. Why? For some unkown reason I have been posessed with the urge to row a marathon (42,195m) on my Concept2 Model C rower. The first two hours were fine, but I nearly died over the last 90 minutes. My time? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2004\/04\/378\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}