The pelican has landed!
After yesterday's personal distance best of 2.5 miles, was back to my regular 2700 y/ 54 laps with a twist: after my 200 warmup, my next 200 included 2 lengths of butterfly:
* 2 X 25 each fly/back/breast/free

Of course I butterfly with the grace of a pelican trying to land in a hurricane, but I'll take it!

Sprint Triathlon practise. 750m Swim in 18:30
20 km bike in 55 mins. 5 km run in 33 mins.
Total time 1:46:22
I know : We be Crazy - most people are satisfied doing one Sporting Event-Competition at a time.
Need to work on the Bike-Running Transition. Jumped off the Bike and my legs wanted to continue going in circles - not a good thing when your are trying to pick them up and down. Didn't do a face plant but a few stumbles/toe drags until I got about 500m in.

@mpeters Said everything that needed to be said about @stephenrhinton and @emmab0902 - "Enjoyed it lots!!" is a great assessment of any swim.

@gentlygently Glad to see you making laps in the pool.
@rosebarnalice " Of course I butterfly with the grace of a pelican trying to land in a hurricane, but I'll take it!" Boy I understand that. I can't even do a full 25m so good on you.
@fishgutzy Your a better man than me. If they have the temp above 75 for the seniors swim day I struggle and end up bailing.

Great swims y'all! Fishgutzy, I'm trying to decide which is worse - swimming under the conditions you described or not being able to swim at all!

I was at a theatre leadership camp with 6 of my students Mon-Wed. We had a great time - they learned a ton and I got a lot of time to converse with my peers, sharing ideas, planning lessons, etc. Unfortunately, there was NO SWIMMING! I cannot wait to get back in the water tomorrow.

I did not :-( Got to the gym and discovered I had left my swim stuff at home. Feel all disappointed!

2700 y in 65 minutes

After swim on Tuesday, got home and realised I'd left my relatively new and pricey swimming trunks at the gym.

Returned Wednesday expecting to find them and swim, but alas they had disappeared, and I hadn't carried another pair, so the Wednesday swim aborted. I just sat there somewhat grumpily and watched people swim, and calculated their stroke rates and other minutiae. They averaged 50 strokes per minutes and below!
Also took some time to look at a few chapters of some of the swim books on my kindle I haven't looked at it in awhile! Swim Smooth (Paul Newsome) and Swim Speed Secrets (Sheila Taormina).

Today, I couldn't find my back up pair of swim trunks either, and I wasn't going to miss another day (yes I'm currently in that sought after zone where missing a day of swimming just doesn't agree with my body) so after going around a couple of shops and only finding overpriced trunks (which I wasn't ready to splurge on as I've bought 2 expensive pairs in the past few months, one or both of which I hope to relocate soon), I settled on a cheaper pair, which may be a size too small, and probably won't last very many swims, but it fits.
Bought the trunks after work and rushed to the pool and managed to get to the pool and squeeze in fifteen (15 - one five - LOL) minutes of sprints before they closed for the evening at 7 pm.
Well, a swim is a swim.

This swimming thing is borderline obsession - if you'd seen me in the shops telling the shop staff that I need swimming trunks like urgently! LOL!

MarissaTriesAgain wrote: »

Another personal best for me today! 25 minutes, 750m, with almost every other length being freestyle!

Really digging reading about all your firsts ...keep it going, exciting stuff

I was lazy yesterday ...i had a rare day with no customer appointments so I had no reason to leave the house except my swim ....so i chickened out and called it a mental health day

Today i forgot to check the clock when I started my swim ....and when I ended my swim I was going in the wrong direction for the lap count so I must've dropped at least one lap in there somewhere. but around an hour and around 1800m, 15 sprints

And tomorrow is my scheduled rest day ...so between an extra drylander day and an extra rest day, and two days of poor tracking this has been a low ebb week for me. C'est la vie ....Saturday is my first 'swim for time' since I started the whole 15 sprint routine. We will see if there has been improvement.

Wow, I leave town and look what happens, lol. I'm headed out of town this afternoon, so no swimming until Sunday, if we are back early enough. My Finis burners came in the mail. Now I'm not sure what to do with them... swim some without them? Swim entirely with them? I'm looking forward to them helping me get my body a little flatter.

One more week and then they close the pool for two weeks to drain it, make repairs and clean it. I might go bananas. I know there is another pool around here somewhere...

rosebarnalice wrote: »

2700 today for a total of just over 8 miles for the week!

Wow! Great mileage!

Only got 3km in on Friday. Nearly stopped after 7 laps (700 meters) after getting a hard head butt to my right shoulder. Stretched a but and kept going. A little bit later I got swamped and sucked enough water that my throat nearly closed up. Lovely autonomic reflex Had to stop in the lane, cough, and wait until I could breathe again.
The pool opened up a little more after that. Friday crowd was thinner after about 5:30.
I've been telling my wife of these pool adventures and she is on me now to stop trying to swim in giant splash pools.
The risk if a real injury is not insignificant. And the company refuses to pay the cost of going to a real pool.
I can go back to stinking up the office with my sweat covered self from hiking the stairs multiple times a day Stink can be a motivator.