Friday, October 24, 2008

the smoke!

It was a better day in the pool, but only after my lungs turned themselves inside out from all the smoke. Seriously. Everyone smokes here. There's a cloud over the city, I'm sure not from the cars at all, but just from the people who smoke. Crazy. We went to Lago Maggiore last night, and while it's beautiful--even standing at the edge of the lake you can barely see the lake for all the smog. And that's in the country!

Anyway, today, I made it to the pool for about 10am, and only had to share the lane with three others. Not bad. Here's how it was.

Warm-up (400m): the usual
"feel good" (450m): 9 x 50 free on :55
Test swim, 15 minutes, hard: (950m)
Aerobic recovery (700m): 3 x 50 breaststroke, 2 x 100 reverse IM kick, 3 x 50 breaststroke, 2 x 100 build to fast; break times determined by lane-mates
Warmdown (200m): easy
===2700m

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I love reading your updates Lori, but it is making me very jealous!

Great job on the test set, that is by far the best 15 minute swim you have done. The hard work is paying off!

lori-ann said...

hey, grazie! I'm pretty sure I counted right. . . but there's always the possibility that I only did 900--still an improvement, though!
Jealous? You should see the food! Bellissima!