Waterblogged

Please? I need swimmers, all swimmers, to come to my new site and " VIP Me " so you can watch additional videos, and even more importantly, help me out by rating some of the posts that will come up on the site today. Help a swimmer out. Here, I'll give you something in exchange: the workout from this morning... *warmup: ironically missed it due to my kid muffling my alarm, which I eerily wrote about last night in the post below. add pull gear for: *4 x 100's followed by a 400 *5 x 75's followed by a 500 *6 x 50's followed by a 600 *3 x 200's

More parenting videos on JuiceBoxJungle One downside to co-sleeping is sleeping through my alarm when my four-year-old inadvertently muffles my alarm. I've said it before and I'll say it again - I love my cuddle time. but I really really hate to miss a swim. Sometimes it works the opposite way of course. An added bonus occurs when my little dude pops into the room at 3AM and wakes me up 2 hours before I need to be up to swim. In cases like those, he's like a little public service announcement: "Mommy. Wake up. Available work time." I know I'm a freak to actually enjoy these wakings. I think I was trained well and hard by my first-born colicky nightmare of a sleeper to spring up and be completely alert at any point and time. And there is just something about that early pre pre pre dawn set of hours in front of my computer that is lovely and quiet and focused. Only problem is that by the time I'm done swimming at 7AM I'm ready for lunch.

This morning I woke up with sore quads from a Sunday run and felt relieved that I was going swimming, not running. Until I got to the pool and saw that the workout was basically running. Fins, that is. I just...can't...catch my breath EVER when using fins. It's sad really. Shouldn't a soccer player be able to KICK? *warmup: 600 free (that was good at least :) *25 dolphin kick, 25 flutter kick, 25 half dolphin kick/fly, 25 half flutter kick/free repeat 3x add fins for: *12 x 100's done as: 3 fly and 3 free (75 kick, 25 swim) 2 fly and 2 free (kick/swim by 25) 1 fly and 1 free (kick/swim by 12.5 yards) *12 x 50's done as: fly with four strokes in middle of underwater swim recovery kick free sprint recovery kick repeat 3x

I haven't posted this week, even though I've had two good swims. Today would have been the third but I woke up with some lame kink in my shoulder, apparently just from sleeping. I would like to think it is from the good hard butterfly workout yesterday, but alas I didn't have a problem when I climbed into bed and when I awoke I couldn't breathe without the shoulder/neck pain. You know you're getting old when you're sore from sleeping. Ah, it was pouring outside anyway. :)

Okay okay, so the pool's not THAT cold. This story gave me chills, and also totally and completely senselessly convinces me that I'm somehow training for surviving a disaster like this by swimming through the Winter. I know: puhleeze. Still, doing descending 500's in 78 degree water has to count for something right?

More parenting videos on JuiceBoxJungle You tell me. Am I contradicting myself here ? Does "Overall I'd say we're mild praisers," followed by "we definitely like to say 'good job' a lot each day" really make a lot of sense? Especially when I later seem to say that I only praise my kids for working hard at something. Hmmm. Let's be honest. They "work hard" at something approximately 0.02% of the time each day. They haven't reached second grade yet; still in "the fun zone" where there's no homework, lots of heavily encouraged playing and napping and 100%-acceptable "special rules" given them by grandparents, aunts, uncles, babysitters and parents on playdates. (Have you noticed those freedom infused days come to a screeching halt right after first grade - otherwise known as the "warm down" year from Kindergarten or the "warm up" year toward the upper levels of scholastic achievement. It...

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