Post-Turkey

I ate a lot of it, and all the accoutrements that come with it, so today was good.

*warmup: 5 x 150 free with last length stroke

add pull gear for:

*2 x 200, 3 x 100 descending
repeat 3x

remove or keep pull gear on for:

*100, 2 x 50's fast, easy 50
repeat 2x

For this I am thankful

I'm posting this before workout today since we ALL know what it will be. 50 x 100's baby!!!!!!! I can't wait. It's also Thanksgiving, and my birthday. And, as you can see on our "thankful wall" from my kitchen, one of the things I am super thankful for is...swimming pools. I think my entries on the wall (not all of which you can see) go like this (not specifically in this order except for #1 of course):

my family
swimming pools
lifelong friends
soccer
awesome parent-teacher conferences (yes, it was conference week this month)
amazing grandparents and mommies
apple fritters
birthday celebrations
good neighbors
laughter

I could have gone on and on about what I'm thankful for, and for THAT I am thankful.

Breast Impaired

I wish I had bigger boobs. But that's not really relevant. What is relevant is that I can't do breast stroke. Related? Probably not, but still worth mentioning the connection since I'm twice breast impaired, making today's workout painful and also not that sexy.

*warmup: 200, 150, 100, 50 free all followed by some little spurts of breast stroke.

*3 x 50's free
*4 x 25's free kick on your side
repeat 3x

*3 x 50's breast
*4 x 25's breast kick
repeat 3x

*3 x 50's free
*3 x 50's breast

Pre-Turkey Pull

I am just, very, excited, about, Thursday. Can't wait to eat turkey and drink wine after a long swim! Today was a nice pull to warm up the shoulders for the 50x100's coming up!

*warmup: 5 x 150's all free then gradually adding backstroke by 25
add pull gear for:
*12 x 100's free
remove pull gear for:
*3 x 100's back
add pull gear for:
*6 x 200's free
remove pull gear for:
*3 x 100's back

BFFSwim

I know I've talked about this before but there is just nothing better for me than having my two bestest friends here for a night out and then a swim in the early morning. Thanks Judy for a great Sunday AM swim!

*warmup: 300 "vanilla", 300 every 4th length kick, 300 ever 4th length dps
*600 free with every 4th length
*2 x 300's
*500: 100 moderate, 100 fast, 75 moderate, 75 fast, 50/50 and 25/25
*3 x 200's free
*4 x 150's free

Swim for your Life

SO. My husband works with this guy's sister - the one who saved his life with a stem cell transplant. Amazing story. AND his latest song is called "Swim". LISTEN TO IT. You can hear it on the site, and see a synopsis of the film here: http://www.dearjackmovie.com/

The site also shows his appearance on the Daily Show from last night. Crazy inspirational stuff.

SO, today's workout was too complicated to remember (even while we were doing it). Here is yesterday's nice, long, SWIM.

*warmup: 500 straight
*1650 straight
*700
*500

YES, swim indeed.

Victory!

We had a victorious and exciting weekend in Manteca, where W's team won all four of their games (including one in PK's which is sending us back to Manteca next weekend - argh!) and enjoyed a hugely happy dog pile after the semi-final. You can see here that, while a step down from Cabo, I still enjoyed some hot tubbing and beer. Upon returning from the weekend, many of us are ill and I missed swim practice yesterday due to an early morning wakeup by the kids. Today, I made it to the pool only to find breaststroke awaited me. Ah, it was still a workout nonetheless.

*warmup: 4 x 200's all free, 50 breast, 100 breast, 150 breast

*10 x 50's free with funky breathing patterns
*10 x 50's breast with every even 50 done as arms only

*5 x 100's free with long streamline
*5 x 100's free with funky breathing patterns