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Tomorrow the world! Or something. Anyhow, I did 25 minutes (including 5-min. cooldown) with three 1-minute running intervals. I’ve been doing more than 3 intervals in that span, but today I tried something different: going faster. My walking rate was… Read moreToday, the Treadmill
400 freestyle, 200 breaststroke. After a night’s sleep, I’m still tired.
Yet I am still training. We went for an ocean swim on Saturday. The ocean is hard work. I think I’ll be doing a lot of breaststroke during the race, the better to breathe and see. It’s a good thing… Read moreLong Time, No Type
Enough. I’m tired of swimming individual lengths, and want to string them together into laps. On the other hand, at least I’m covering the minimum distance I’ll need to swim in the actual triathlon. Just, you know, not all at… Read moreSeriously
Okay, seriously. What is it with me and freestyle? Last night I couldn’t finish my first lap of that stroke. I wound up having to break laps into lengths, with breaks on each end of the pool. It helped, because… Read moreAustralian Crawl
Okay, I’m no Ophelia. And I definitely didn’t drown. But the swimming portion of my training isn’t going well, and that’s frustrating. We went to the pool on Sunday, and I felt both slow and weak. I had trouble finishing… Read moreYour Sister’s Drown’d, Laertes
5.91 miles in 30 minutes. I am such an athlete! Well, except for the part where that’s not very far at all. And the part where it was a stationary bike.
Yesterday I went for a walk of 1.45 miles, and today we went swimming at UCLA’s Park Pool–I managed 500 meters, which is much more typical for me. Now I need to string more than 100 meters together at a… Read moreNow That’s More Like It
…is something I’d better not try any time soon, because I barely made it through 200 meters of breaststroke. And by “200 meters,” I mean “four stretches of 50 meters with lots of gasping at each end of the pool.”… Read moreSwimming to Cambodia
So a month and a half later, or something like that, we still haven’t gotten back to the pool. Tonight, that changes. Here’s hoping I remember how to swim. Good news, however–a couple of weeks ago we were in the… Read moreSwimming in Circles