tigerchik wrote:
you have quite the little playground out there.
It is. If you could find the time (Tiki Swim?) I'll host you and get you to some group swims out of Shaw's and such. (You're faster than most everybody there [except me :)])
BTW: those are some nice 100 repeats... maybe you are faster than me!!
Aug 14 About a 1000 yard warm-up swim in Los Alamitos Bay, for the Naples Island 3-mile swim.
Wasn't quite 3 miles. I got 4969 yards on my Suunto and finished that in just under 1:04, or about a 1:17/100 pace. I won my age group and placed 7th overall. Within 500 yards of the start, I bridged up to the group of 7 and stayed in their bubbles. One guy dropped out after about a mile and I thought this woman was going to, too. But, she hung in there and I didn't. I started falling off pace about 2/3 through it - a place where the water was warmer, like 75 rather than 70ish at the start/finish. By the end, they pulled 2 minutes on me and I had nobody behind me that I could see. 1, 2 and 3 all had the same times (used chip timing). 4, 5 and 6 were within 5 seconds of the leaders. I would have loved to see that finish! My buddy, 54 year old Bryan Buck, got second. He's still an active lifeguard.
Today I didn't swim. My shoulders are pretty tired from yesterday's race. However, I did get a little 4.5 mile run in the morning and a 13 mile bike ride at lunch - where it just got over 100 degrees. Kind of dug that, though!
Proud member of FISHTWITCH: doing a bit more than fish exercise now.