Monthly Archives: February 2020

Something else I realized yesterday… Swimming for 3 hours a day will be quite challenging. It’s not as if I didn’t know that before, but it brought it home emotionally.…

I did it! That could refer to doing another 10,000 yard workout, but the part I was really worried about was managing it while travelling. But all went to plan.…

I can’t believe it’s been a week since I blogged. So much for my email reminder system – I found it all to easy to ignore over the last crazy…

I have instituted an email system to remind me to blog about this experience each day. My instructions to myself include “And do something each day to blog about.” It’s…

Pretty tired, pretty hungry. It must be working. Did a true recovery w/o this morning, courtesy of my tight hamstrings, hip flexors and neck muscles. Oh, and of not getting…

Did some 100 repeats in 1:12 that felt pretty solid. Need to lengthen my stroke and keep my legs up. Soooo many flip turns training this many yards short course…

Feeling very brain loggy today. Might be overtrained (pc underrecovered). Did more yoga – foot feels better, but MAN was I sore.

Yet again, coaching has taken over any blogging time that might present itself. I completed the 5K on June 1st. Not gracefully, perhaps, and I certainly got my ass beat…

The (mini) Tale of the Seven Lakes So this was bad. Coaching in the blistering heat until 8 PM the night before a morning race mayyyyy not be the best…

Haven’t had a lot of time or impulse to write with the start-up of summer league swimming and all of the end-of-year school stuff. I’m doing a 5K tomorrow morning,…

Not much blogging in the lead up to and during the first week of coaching Cary Swim Club summer league. But I’m seeing a light at the end of the…

InsanityPlanity I did not get much done around the ECS (English Channel Swim)… maybe I should give it a nickname… insanity planity?) over my long weekend at the W&L alumni…

Didn’t make it to the pool on time yesterday and thank goodness. Ended up doing 5100 yards even so. Main set was 3x1000. I had time for two of them.…

Didn’t do much English Channel-wise after the lit survey on Saturday morning. I head to Wave practice this afternoon – planning to go from 3ish to 5 PM for the…

Yesterday I got up at 4:45 and chaperoned the 5th grade beach field trip. No work toward swimming the channel, other than being at the beach and reminded of how…

What did I do to further my channel goals yesterday? Well, I found this article: https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1113/jphysiol.1963.sp007282 It heartened me greatly considering that it showed (albeit with a small sample size)…

After a week of spring break, with two short swim practices and regrettable digestive issues, I did my first practice back with Wave yesterday. Around 4000 pretty intense yards (intervals…

I sent Loretta the money for her book by paypal. Another $50 to the cause. My first international PayPal – very easy. Why can’t the boat captains use paypal? 1.5…

I have an appointment to swim the English Channel in 2 and a half years, and so far, I really, really suck at it. If I can just get to…

Have I done something bad? Committed a Channel faux pas by booking two boats? Like everything else in this process so far, I just. don’t. know. I still know how…