Well I needed 4100m on 31 March to hit 90,000m for the month, but due to work meetings, I got to the pool with only 1:12 left before it closed, and pretty well swam continuously pretty hard and crammed in 3800m (it may have been 3900m but lost count at one point). In any case, ended the month at 89,700m. So close. I was contemplating coming back to the pool for a late evening swim to get over the top, but my son (19) had a tough day and wanted some father-son time to talk so I gladly passed up on the final few meters (although on second thought I should have suggested we go swim together). So back to the start line this month for another 90000m attempt. This month has 1 less day and I have two weeks of biz travel which makes the days at home more critical.

I'm on a bit of a taper week, racing a half marathon on 4/3

4/1
AM swim, 2150 yards, moderstley-easy in 34:25 straight set
Had to get a vaccination on 3/31 which made my shoulder so sore, couldn't have swam much more anyway

PM run, 4 miles easy

4/2
47 minute trainer, worked on shoe transitions. 6 x 5 min with 1min feet on top, 4 min feet in.
4.2 mile run, ran to the store for breakfast sausage.

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2200 yds yesterday
5000 yds today:

1000 w/u
100 kick
6 x 150 odds back evens free
100 kick
8 x 100 odds fast (1:!2-1:13s), evens easy
100 kick
7 x 100 odds fast (1:14s), evens kick
2 x 300 as 100 free / 50 kick / 100 back / 50 kick
100 kick
500 swim
100 kick

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I have t had much of a chance to train consistently lately, due to the arrival of 140tribaby, brought home on February 11. I entered our masters meet today, and swam the 500 (5:26) and 1650 (18:51). Both are well off my times from USMS nationals last year (17:33) but the mile was the state-level version of an "all-comers" record. No one in my AG has swam a faster mile inside state boundaries. That's not really saying much, but I'm okay with it. I forgot to ask for a counter, so I counted on my own: I swam 100 in each third of my lane (right side, black line, left side, black line, etc), with an open turn at 825 to check the scoreboard for the halfway split.

For both races, I was completely outside the pain zone. I was mostly trying to get some good turns. I also breathed mostly right side, and I'm sure I'm going to have the adult-onset experts telling me I should breathe bilateral.

Wow! Congrats on both counts — 140tribaby and some very speedy swims. You'd lap me once if not twice in the 1650. And, I can't make babies anymore, either.

I swam in the ocean this morning. Wore my wetsuit & got blasted by this gal who told me I should swim with the other wet suited triathletes rather than with the "pure" open water swimmers. Who rely only on their bioprene. Others heard the remark and respect my abilities and subsequently booted her from the group. I got several messages apologizing for her behavior. I also lost my GPS watch in the heavy surf this morning. Sucks. But got in about 1.6 miles in 57 deg heavy surf water. I followed that up with an 8.3 mile run/ hike to another beach where I spotted a whale about 60 feet offshore.
https://instagram.com/p/BDtgqkiMPyA/

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Welcome back, TC. That's a nice swim set.

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Friday

1500 meet warm up/prep

Saturday

1200 warm up as follows :
300 swim
4x50 kick
100 easy
4x25 @25 fast
100 easy
4x50 @ 55 pacing
200 easy

Race : 400 Free - 4:20.22

Cool down 600

2200

Sunday
1300 warm up :
400 swim
4x50 kick
50 easy
4x25 @ 25 fast
150 easy
4x50 @ 50 pace
200 easy

Race 1 : 800 Free : 8:56.90

600 cool down

Warm up #2 (800)
200 swim
4x50 fly kick
100 easy
2x 25 fly
50 easy
2x25 fly
50 easy
4x25 alt fly/ easy free

Race 2: 200 Fly 2:14.51

3700 m

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebral_palsy
2020 National Masters Champion - M40-44 - 400m IM
Canadian Record Holder 35-39M & 40-44M - 200 m Butterfly (LCM)

4/3
Race day, Three Creeks Half Marathon. First race in the M45-49 AG. 1:23:08, good enough for 7th OA and 1st in AG

4/4
Damn, I did something to my left ankle racing, it hurts like a mo-fo this morning, weird as it was fine yesterday.

Swim
w/u
450 build
50 all out
m/s
500 paddles & buoy
500 straight, med-effort
5 x 100
w/d
150 (50 each: back, breast, free)

Will try a recovery run later if the ankle feels significantly better. It seems to have loosened up walking around this morning.

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That's a nice half marathon time. Congrats.

6 mi bike to/from campus yesterday
3 mi bike to campus today, 1900 yd swim. Did 3 x 500 ... 7:30, 7:10, 6:55, and some easy swimming and kicking. Arm fatigue from Saturday.

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Had a good eyeball on the scoreboard on the return 25s in my 800. Pretty sure they fotgot to ring the bell for me. I looked up around 780 to 785 and the clock said 8.44 so I put my head down and sprinted. 8.56.90 with 400s of 4.28.69 and 4.28.21 for a nice negative split.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/...eoesophageal_fistula
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebral_palsy
2020 National Masters Champion - M40-44 - 400m IM
Canadian Record Holder 35-39M & 40-44M - 200 m Butterfly (LCM)

TUESDAY
1200 yards: 500 swim, 100 kick, 5 x 100 odds backstroke, 100 kick

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WEDNESDAY
same thing as yesterday

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4/02

42 min, 2816.0 yds, Shaw's Cove to Seal Rock and back
2 hr 7 min, 8.3 mi, Run/hike/hang out at the beach & shoot pictures 1402 feet ascent

4/03

51 min, 4220.0 yds, Shaw's Cove to Main Beach Buoy and back 57 deg wetsuit
2 hr 33 min, 7.3 mi, Los Pinos Trail climb 2408 feet ascent. More of a hike than run.

4/04

1 hr 9 min, 4100.0 yds, 1000s 13:11 4x250 kwf alt strokes 5x200 IM w/fins 10x100@1:45 alt pull/fr 100 s/k cool
1 hr 11 min 30 sec, 8.5 mi, 1510 feet ascent 151 Max HR trails in Wood Canyon

4/05

26 min, 2000.0 yds, 1000s 5x100 kwf alt strokes 5x100 alt pull/fr - sloshbucket w/kids on spring break. Couldn't clear a path through the obnoxious little buggers
1 hr 49 min 52 sec, 33.1 mi, 3,432 feet ascent on bike
27 min 42 sec, 7.8 mi, Picked up car from shop 1540 feet ascent on bike to pick up car from shop

4/06

1 hr 7 min, 4000.0 yds, 2000s 27:12 4x250 kwf alt strokes 5x100@1:20 5x100 as [25k/50s/25k] alt strokes
31 min 41 sec, 3.8 mi, 253 feet ascent trail run

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THURSDAY
1500 yds:

3 x 100 on 1:40 w/u
50 kick
3 x [200 fast + 100 easy + 50 kick] 2:35, 2:30, 2:26
100 c/d

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disclaimer: PhD not MD

Just did my first masters swim yesterday, it was awesome b/c I got my ass kicked. Not sure of the actual set but ended up around 4800 yards, which is the furthest I've ever swum. Getting there...

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Awesome to hear. I'd love to join a masters group but unfortunately none in my area have a schedule that works for me. Until then I'll continue splash around solo.

4/5
AM - 67 min trainer ride
PM - 6.2 mile easy run in 46:54

4/6
AM - 3000 yrd swim in 46:37 Too much too soon, the 100s were too hard

w/u
500 build
m/s
4 x 100 all out
6 x 200 w/paddles (evens SSB, odds WSB)
400 band/buoy
w/d
500 (300 easy alt breath, 100 back, 100 breast)

PM - Hill Run, 2.5 miles up into the wind, 1.5 miles down, turn around, 1.5 up into the wind, 2.5 miles home. 8 in 54:14


4/7
AM - 80 min trainer ride
PM - 6.1 mile easy run in 46:12

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The secret of a long life is you try not to shorten it.
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1500 easy: 6 x [200 swim + 50 kick], some backstroke

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maybe she's born with it, maybe it's chlorine
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I will post some pictures when I get back home, but I am over in Dresden Germany for some business and found a 50m old school East German era pool 1.5K walk from my hotel. So today I did an early morning 3500m swim and an evening 4000m swim. Really nice 50m long course:




I have been targeting 90k swimming per month with these challenges and it occurred to me that today is the 99th day of the year, so I checked my yearly total and surpassed 300k (302K as of today). That's usually a decent year of swimming for me. Of course, I did zero run and XC skiing this winter, so the swimming did not seem like "that much"...basically a bit under 1 hour of swimming per day. I am used to doing 2+ hours of training per day spread over many sports. Right now it is mainly swim and some trainer time. Definitely feeling fit based on my bike FTP. Swim times have also come down a few seconds per 100m, but seems I can hold form and speed for longer sets.

Oh and today it was pretty funny some guy in an IM Austria hat ends up in my lane and next thing you know he is drafting my feet, then I am drafting him and it went on like we were in a triathlon swim leg in a respectful way each taking our pulls! No communication due to language barrier but mutual respect.

Nice pool and that's a nice double!

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If you're injured and need some sympathy, PM me and I'm very happy to write back.
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Ok... Right thread. I think. It has been a while, and I haven't got used to the new format.

The Oregon Masters Meet 1500 was Hot yesterday. 50m pool. I swam a 19:51. Most folks were suffering with the heat, and posted times slower than the seed time. 100m and 800m today.

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That's a very nice 1500 time. What did trexlera go?

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Trexla did not finish. Hopefully he feels some speed today

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:-(

2600 yds for me today. The clock and I had a difference of opinion on the 200s. I thought they were about 2:25s, and the clock said 2:30, 2:32, 2:30.

8 x 200 #3, 5, 7 fast
100 kick
8 x 100 on 1:35 easy
100 kick

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maybe she's born with it, maybe it's chlorine
If you're injured and need some sympathy, PM me and I'm very happy to write back.
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Difference of opinion? The clock, or my body, just plain revolted against me this morning. I probably could've water-jogged faster.


4/8
AM Swim, slow day

w/u 600 easy
6 x 100 (59=0 fist, 50 steady)
m/s
3 x 800 -1 band & buoy -2 steady -3 buoy easy, alt breath
w/d
400 (alt 50 back/breast)

PM run, 4.1 miles in 30 minutes, left foot feels like crap, not recovering from last weekend's race


4/9
Brick w/o

2-hour trainer ride
8 mile run in 52:50, doped myself up on Ibuprofin, it's a hell of a drug!

4/10
20 mile run in 2:27:18


4/11
AM Swim, pay a small price for yesterday's run. Feel good with plenty of energy, but absolutely no snap to my stroke, very slow with the fast toys.

w/u
300 easy
m/s 2 x 400 (1-band/buoy, 2-buoy)
3 x 300 (1-free, 2-buoy, 3-paddle/buoy)
4 x 200 (1&2- free, 3 -buoy, 4-buoy/paddles)
5 x 100 (1-3 fist, 4-buoy, 5-buoy/paddles)
w/d
200 back/breast x 100

PM run, easy 4 mile recovery planned.

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The secret of a long life is you try not to shorten it.
-Nobody