Mon, mon

200 free
100 kick
100 free pull
100 back pull
100 fly kick on back/ on front
100 IM
600 free
200 warm-down.
===1500

+100 floating

Friday thousand

warm-up (200m): mixed
technique (200m): kick--free on side, back on side, fly on back, fly on front.
main set (500m): straight free
warm-down (100m): mixed
===1000m
30 minutes
It's just good to be back.

I'm getting there

I felt not so hot, but made it there anyway. And some days, that's the point, isn't it?

warm-up (400m): swim, kick, pull, swim.
main set (1200m): 400m freestyle, 2x200m IM with adapted fly, 400m freestyle.
warm-down (200m): mixed.
===1800m

saturday with company

Can you believe Mike came to the pool with me? It was great. And empty. We made the guards come in from outside just for us. heh heh.

main set: 1000m straight
warm down: 300m mixed
=== 1300m

and it was good.

why yes, Julie, perhaps I do need some butt-kicking!

Okay, there was a swim yesterday, and a run today. And the odd swim over the past two months. Plus some energetic walks. I have some new momentum now that the triathlon is over--we had the most athletes ever this year, no injuries or wipe-outs that we know of, and it seems like everyone's happy with how things went! Helping organize it wipes me out in the short term, but boosts me up in the long term--so I'm looking forward to the new energy. And now that we're post-tri, the pool is empty in the morning--even more incentive, a lane of my own!

Yesterday, it looked like this:
warm-up (400m): swim, kick, pull, swim.
main set (1000m): straight.
warm-down (400m): mixed.
===1800m

Today: about 5km from the house to the trails and back, walking the hills, with Helen and Bruno, at about 45 minutes. It felt much better than I'd feared, and I'll be happy to do it again soon.

a regular

The hot tub is down. The lane swim time is up. I am offered the sauna, which is billed as being nice and hot. I'm courteous, and ask if there is a public swim next, thinking that if they are closing up, I'll go home. I'm told that I'd be able to stay anyway, because I'm a regular.
Naturally, I spend my time in the sauna replaying those word, which, as with any words, become distorted the more you say it.
a regular.
a regular.
aregular.
irregular.
irregular? what do they know!
But it's closest to the truth. I have been irregular at the pool.
Things could be worse. . . .

It was 1300m. A mix. And I only had a half hour, so I consider it awesome!
awesome.
awesome.
and so on. . . .

warm-up (500m): mixed.
"technique" (let's use the term loosely)(400m): 2 x (100 kick, 100 pull).
swim (400m).
===1300m

I didn't want to. . .

but Helen made me do it.

warm-up (400m): mixed.
transition (2x100m): kick.
main set (1000m): 4x125m IM, 500m freestyle.
warm-down (200m): kick, pull.
===1800m