Waterblogged

Triathletes are so annoying. I know because I was one of them. Check out this video - so true. warmup: 200 free, 100 IM 150 free, 100 IM 100 free, 100 IM pull gear for: 500 free descending, 200 drill 450 free descending, 200 drill 400 free descending, 200 drill gear off for: 2 x 100's fastest ave possible 1 x 50 drill repeat 3x

First of all, this is all to be taken with a big grain of salt. Some of my favorite people on the team violate my shower etiquette rules, and I still love them. But, I still think this stuff is fascinating. So, I don't know how it is in the men's bathroom, but up in the women's, we only have one good shower out of six. The odd thing is, the good shower location rotates. By far, the good shower used to be the handicapped one in the corner. It stayed on continuously, so one didn't have to perform the annoying 20 second interval pump to keep one's shower going. It's a large area, which allowed those who violated shower etiquette to have plenty of room for leg shaving and exfoliating. Most importantly, the water in that corner shower was hot, and the water pressure was strong. Today, that shower is cordoned off by ominous yellow caution tape, as if a heinous crime had occurred there (we have no idea why the tape is actually there). But even before it was condemned, ...

This morning when I woke up at 4 to work and started to make my normal cup of hot water to drink I wondered "what the hell am I doing drinking hot water right now? I deserve some coffee." So I busted out the new single drip cone system and Philz coffee that Noah has adopted since taking up coffee drinking, and powered down a few cups. Boy was workout fun this morning. I was en fuego. Couldn't be stopped. That caffeine stuff really is a drug. Forget steroids, they should start testing Olympic athletes for illegal Philz coffee intake before races. warmup: 600 free main set: 2 x 200's free, match the time 400 free match combined time 2 x 150's free, match the time 300 free match combined time 2 x 100's free, match the time 200 free match combined time last set: 750 free broken as: 200 moderate, 2 x 50's speed to match, 150 moderate, 2 x 50's speed to match, 100 moderate, 2 x 50's speed to match warmdown: 150 drill

I just don't like it. I wish I did; done right it is a tough workout. Even though non-swimmers think it is the "easy" stroke, that doesn't make it an easy stroke. Or maybe I'm just not coordinated. Either way, I cannot help but groan when Tim says "breaststroke". I've sworn I wouldn't kvetch any more about it many times, but it happens anyway. Thank God for the nice solid reps of freestyle in between the breast. warmup (all distances free with last 50 breast) : 200, 150, 100, 50 main set: 100 breast kick, 75 breast double kick, 50 fast breast, 25 breast on your back 3 x 200's free descending 100 breast kick, 75 breast double kick, 50 fast breast, 25 breast on your back 3 x 150's free descending 100 breast kick, 75 breast double kick, 50 fast breast, 25 breast on your back 3 x 100's free descending last set: 2 x 50's breast, 2 x 50's free

The car thermometer read 38 this morning - balmy! When I see 29 (and that's happened a few times this winter), I admittedly get happy. The lower the temperature, the higher my desire to just get the fuck in the pool as I'm standing on the deck in my swimsuit. It's dark and cold, and sometimes my feet go numb. At that point an illuminated turquoise rectangle of 80 degree water looks like Bahamanian paradise, and I'm in as soon as Tim or a lifeguard shows up. When I try to swim at noon, or even in the 40's, there is less urgency, and potentially less of a positive temperature shock when I enter the water. So there you go. Winter swimming in the dark is the BEST! warmup: I digressed and lost count, but I think it was a cut down by 50's from a 250 to a 50. main set: 200, 250, 300, 350, 400, 300, 200 free in between each, a 50 of stroke drill to kick end set: fast 75 IM, fast 50 free, fast 25 stroke

Good news: bobbing made it back into the workout today. Sure, it's not a great stamina builder (especially not at the one-time 25 yard distance), but it makes me feel like a kid again. Somehow the entire hour became a game when Tim called out a 25 of bobbing. It's the little things. Warmup: 250 free 4x50's swim, kick, drill 250 free Main: 300 free to stroke 150 one arm to kick 100 IM 4x50's max speed free 300 free to stroke 150 one arm to kick 100 IM 8x25's max speed choice 25 bobbing (the ole horizontal bob is back!) 25 max choice 25 sideways eggbeater 75 max choice 25 backwards free 25 max choice