{"id":1833,"date":"2013-12-07T14:40:31","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T20:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=1833"},"modified":"2013-12-24T20:53:35","modified_gmt":"2013-12-25T02:53:35","slug":"oxygen-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=1833","title":{"rendered":"Oxygen choices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0359950\/\">The Secret Life of Walter Mitty<\/a> has been playing a trailer in movies that I watch for a while now.  I&#8217;m not a fan of Ben Stiller, so it is annoying to watch it all the time.  However, there is one quote which got me thinking today.  It is:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&quot;I&#8217;m gonna keep this short. I have to make oxygen choices.&quot;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nSo swimming with a slight chest cold brings up that thought process.  I have a rhythm.  It is stroke, breath, stroke, breath.  I keep my head straight and down until I need to inhale.  Where I will get my mouth above the waterline enough to quickly breath in.  Exhaling is easily done underwater.  If I need to cough water out of my mouth, I can skip a breath, but I&#8217;ll be redlining until the next gasp.  I&#8217;ve even tried changing the stroke\/breath ratios, but 1:1 works best.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSo, this morning, I&#8217;ve got to pay attention to the phlegm in my lungs.  Keeping my breath steady to not dislodge anything. And if something does happen, and I need to cough it clear, I need to wait until a time where I am face down in the water and I can strongly cough it out.  That way, I can quickly inhale and go back to my rhythm.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWorking on this skill has taught me to not panic in the water if I happen to breath in water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Secret Life of Walter Mitty has been playing a trailer in movies that I watch for a while now. I&#8217;m not a fan of Ben Stiller, so it is annoying to watch it all the time. However, there is one quote which got me thinking today. It is: &quot;I&#8217;m gonna keep this short. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1833"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1836,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions\/1836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}