{"id":4224,"date":"2020-04-05T11:26:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T09:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bullesbygundula.com\/?p=4224"},"modified":"2020-04-06T16:46:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T14:46:32","slug":"shall-we-go-swimming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bullesbygundula.com\/en\/shall-we-go-swimming\/","title":{"rendered":"Shall we go swimming?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/bullesbygundula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/AdobeStock_37275372-1024x312.jpeg\" alt=\"L\u2019attribut alt de cette image est vide, son nom de fichier est AdobeStock_37275372-1024x312.jpeg.\" width=\"249\" height=\"76\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p> \u201cShall we go swimming?\u201d a friend challenged me with a provocative smile.  It was Easter Monday in Brittany and the water was a freezing 11  degrees!  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I took up the challenge, put my costume on and we set off for the sea. I went down the slope of the jetty and I have to say the water was icy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I turned round and saw my brazen friend starting to lag behind and our respective husbands watching us with a mixture of astonishment and pity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was nothing to lose. I dived in\u2026..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two minutes and twenty strokes later, I was out again and energetically rubbing myself down to get the circulation going in my frozen body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut why did you do that?\u201d asked my inner coach. The reason is that I love a challenge! Swimming loses its interest when it\u2019s 30 degrees and the water is 25. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The challenge of jumping off the roof of a catamaran, walking 1,000 km, doing a parachute jump or being the first to throw myself into freezing cold water leads me to do the most incredible things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What about you?  What do you need to do to surpass your own limits? <\/p>\n\n\n<p><!--EndFragment--><br>\n<br>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cShall we go swimming?\u201d a friend challenged me with a provocative smile. It was Easter Monday in Brittany and the water was a freezing 11 degrees! I took up the challenge, put my costume on and we set off for the sea. I went down the slope of the jetty and I have to say the water was icy. I turned round and saw my brazen friend starting to lag behind and our respective husbands watching us with a mixture of astonishment and pity. There was nothing to lose. I dived in\u2026.. Two minutes and twenty strokes later, I was out again and energetically rubbing myself down to get the circulation going in my frozen body. \u201cBut why did you do that?\u201d asked my inner coach. The reason is that I love a challenge! Swimming loses its interest when it\u2019s 30 degrees and the water is 25. The challenge of jumping off the roof of a catamaran, walking 1,000 km, doing a parachute jump or being the first to throw myself into freezing cold water leads me to do the most incredible things. What about you? What do you need to do to surpass your own limits?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2289],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/bullesbygundula.com\/en\/shall-we-go-swimming\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Shall we go swimming? - Bulles de bonheur\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cShall we go swimming?\u201d a friend challenged me with a provocative smile. It was Easter Monday in Brittany and the water was a freezing 11 degrees! 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