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Cloudy with a chance of meatballs


What is up with this weather? Is it not June? Is it not the last week of school? Is summer coming anytime soon? I'm concerned about continuing the tan I got on my recent vacation and this cloud cover is not helping. I wanted to take my visiting sister-in-law from New Jersey to the beach and impress her with our sparkling sand and sunny coast but all I would be able to show her if I drove over the hill is fog. I guess we'll just sit inside this afternoon and read an appropriate book (my favorite from childhood...read it!).

Hmph. But hey, it was a great workout this morning (3600!), so I've got that going for me. Which is nice.

*warmup: 6 x 100's free

*3 x 400's:
1: reverse circle swimming (swim down left side of pool)
2: fit in 2 fast 100's, stop and gather lane after each fast 100
3: change leaders whenever current leader gets tired (leader swims strong)

add fins

*3 swims (700, 500 and 300) fitting 100 fly, 100 head up free and 100 streamline off the wall free into each distance, in any order

remove fins

*3 x 100 on the 1:45 descending 1-3

Comments

Emmit said…
That was my favorite childhood book too!

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