define('DISABLE_WP_CRON', true);{"id":953,"date":"2007-08-28T20:11:44","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T10:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/?p=953"},"modified":"2007-08-28T20:11:44","modified_gmt":"2007-08-28T10:11:44","slug":"ian-thorpe-aquatic-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/953\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Thorpe Aquatic Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Took a swim in the just-opened Ian Thorpe Aquatic Centre tonight &#8211; pretty nice!<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sh1ft.org\/itac.jpg\" alt=\"Ian Thorpe Aquatic Centre\" \/><br \/>photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sydneymedia.com.au\/html\/3354-ian-thorpe-aquatic-centre-open-for-business.asp?orig=Home\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Media<\/a><\/div>\n<p>There&#8217;s the standard 50m lap pool, a leisure pool with spa and a hydrotherapy pool. There&#8217;s a sauna in there somewhere but I didn&#8217;t check it out. <\/p>\n<p>The lifeguard was nice enough to let me swim laps in the extra-slow arse lane so I didn&#8217;t hold up any of the other swimmers in the slow lane.. Managed to get a decent aqua workout, spent about 45 mins doing laps and then repeating the stuff I&#8217;ve learnt at aquanatal. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s $6 for adults for a casual swim, which is pretty good considering I&#8217;m not a member and it&#8217;s a brand new facility. (An RSL we used to go to used to charge $6, but now charges about $20 a swim!!) <\/p>\n<p>Since it&#8217;s not far from our apartment, I&#8217;ll probably be down there a couple of times a week until we move (which is still a few weeks away). Swimming has been great during my pregnancy so I&#8217;m glad I didn&#8217;t have to give it up completely. I much rather a 2 block walk, than the 3 hour drive every week&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/itac.org.au\/\">http:\/\/www.itac.org.au<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Took a swim in the just-opened Ian Thorpe Aquatic Centre tonight &#8211; pretty nice! photo by Sydney Media There&#8217;s the standard 50m lap pool, a leisure pool with spa and a hydrotherapy pool. There&#8217;s a sauna in there somewhere but I didn&#8217;t check it out. The lifeguard was nice enough to let me swim laps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thumbs-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}