In defense of Phelpsi

Poor Michael Phelps. I mean really, is it so bad, at 23, to be doing a bong hit? I think he deserves one or quite a few (maybe 8) - especially after 8 Olympic gold medals. Give the guy a little down time, shouldn't we? The press is so brutal...and hey, it could be a lot worse. How disappointed would we all be to find out he did steroids or somehow wasn't as naturally bad-assed in the pool as we all think he is? Heck, smoking a bowl should decrease his performance, not enhance it, so I'd personally be even MORE impressed with him if I found out he was smoking out during the Olympics. But that's just me.

In other news, it's February and the freak-a-zoids (no offense - I'd be doing it too if I didn't have things such as kids that demand and suck my energy) that tally up hundreds of thousands of yards this month are already out en force. Me? I'm at whatever we did today, and I'm feeling proud thankyouverymuch.

*warmup: 50, 100, 150, 200, 250, 300

*5 x 100's
*4 x 150's
*3 x 200's
*2 x 250's
*1 x 300

*warm down: 3 x 50's

Comments

AM! said…

With, Phelps, seriously, if that's the worst thing he's done- then he's a friggin' saint!!

And for the swim...your w/u IS my entire swim workout!

February 4, 2009 at 9:12 AM

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No, this is not what we did this morning (thank G-d). But I have to give kudos where kudos are due, to Frances and Peter (and if there was someone else someone please enlighten me) for doing a mile of butterfly at the Rinconada meet on Saturday. Rebecca Pinto likes to call this meet the Rinky Dink Meet but, as I'm sure she would agree, there's nothing dinky about 1650 yards of butterfly. Frances and Peter both completed the event in less than 30 minutes. That's about 4 days and 23.5 hours less than swimming a mile of fly would take me. I'm in awe. Here's what we did this morning: *300 free followed by 2x25 kick *300 free followed by 2x50 quick free ~ All free, all broken in half for 2-5 seconds to check time and try to match split on second half. (Interval for Lane 2, on 1:30 base): *1x400 *2x300 *3x200 *4x100 ~ *3x100 on the 1:35, 1:25, 1:20, trying to match pace for all three *3x100 on the 1:35, 1:25, 1:20, trying to match pace for all three ~ *4x25 fast free with

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