Yearly Archives: 2020

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…

This has been, may I say, the WORST. I can swim the Channel, no problem, but I can’t reserve the *&$%#% boat. Do I need to look at these contracts?…

I forgot to include the notes I took while talking to Loretta – here are my delightful jottings: Eddie - read contractpaperwork in on timequalifying swim october before the year…

Breakthrough!!! The combination of talking to the helpful coach (Loretta Cox) that Charles Van Der Horst suggested AND being completely fed up with this whole boat reservation decision process has…

Got in touch with Charles Van Der Horst through Coach Bescher. He is doing a Channel relay and training with Loretta Cox. He has swum with JP at TAC and…

Hopped in for a bit before I had to leave to go camping – felt better. Hopefully better things coming next week (like, more than 2000 yards).

Swam my first practice. 1000 on my own, 1000 with the group (their warm-up). Got destroyed. God I suck at kicking on my side. Onward and upward.