Family road trip to Colorado for about 10 days here. My goal is to try and work in a crazy swim workout somehow -- or maybe run.

Gotta be a pool somewhere in Colorado. :)

This AM:
500 s no time
100 br kick
400 s 4:55
100 br kick
300 s 3:36
100 br kick
200 s 2:20
100 br kick
100 s 1:04
100 br kick
200 s/k cool

2200 sc yardages

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Nice job, I did 6x300's on 4:20 and averaged 3:49 (also SCM). I got down to 3:46 on the last two. I did the splash and dash in the afternoon and felt good on the swim, crap on the run.

500 fr, 400 (75pull, 25k)
3x{ 50 k (25fast,25ez), 100 k (75 fast,25ez), 150 k (125 fast, 25ez) }
3x{ 8x50 @:45, 200 @3:10 }
3600 scy
Starting to feel pretty good again. Guess it doesn't take too long after a shortish break to come back.

Tuesday: 6 mi bike, 8 mi run, 6 mi bike
Wednesday: 6.5 mi run, 20 mile bike
today: 10 mile run, 1000 yd lake swim

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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.
disclaimer: PhD not MD

This AM (was supposed to be all thundershowers, instead just a few scattered cloud remnants)
10x100@1:20 Started @1:15, slowed to 1:18 as my arms were trying to acclimate, and finally down to 1:08
5x100 various kicks
5x100@ 1:45 s-d-d-s
250 s/k cool

2250 sc yardages

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Proud member of FISHTWITCH: doing a bit more than fish exercise now.

Thank you God for 24 hr fitness...
Swam for about an hour. Lost Count... Fist swimming and pushups / flutterkicks last 15 mins.....

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Hope is a good thing.... maybe the best of things..... and a good thing never dies.....

late afternoon swim with all the kiddies today, 104 outside:

12x100-4s/2k@1;30/2;00--1;20 to 1;14s/1;49 to 1;44k
broken 1650p(1000@13;00/500@6;30/150@2;00) 20;36-- (12;39/6;13/1;44)
200kick@4;00--3;45
10x50@1;00- fly/bk--free- fly/bk-38/37/36/37/38, frees-38's
200dolphin@4;00-3;42
300p SD-3;59
4050SCY

nice work tigerchik... saw you at the number 1 spot for most run distance in the last 7 days ;-)

wed. swim - sweet broken 1200 set ( 2 x 200 @ 2:55, 1 x 400 @ 6:00, 2 x 200 @ 2:55 scm) Felt guilty about all the rest on the 400. Going to start lowering my standard interval a bit.

fri. swim - 30min lake swim at sunrise. great way to start the day.

rode 6 mi to the beach, swam about 2500 yds, rode 9 mi back. Awesome morning.

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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.
disclaimer: PhD not MD

That's where I do my swimming, as I can get in there at 4am or whenever I need to...except every 24hr I've been to swears up and down that they are a 25m pool and refuse to admit otherwise...I even brought measuring tape...75ft/25yds...they still say they are 25m...

500 sw
100 bk
3x100 50kick/25dr/25sw

30x100@1:45 (~1:27)

2x200 paddles
200 easy mix

4500scy
First decent swim after a few weeks of easy light workouts across the board, although alot slower than what it should have been by about 5-7s/100. My sickness finally manifested itself as a chest infection virus of sorts. 3 month final build for Racine70.3 was 2 month injured/1 month chest virus = stay home/DNS...oh well...

400 fr, 400 (75 pull, 25 dog-paddle), 300 kwf
10x50 odd one arm fly/even one arm free (w/ fins)
4x25 ez @:30
4x50 pace @:50
3x50 fast @:55
6x25 ez@:30
4x50 pace @:50
3x50 faster @1:00
8x25 ez@:30
4x50 pace @:50
3x50 fastest @1:05
500 pull
100 ez
3700 scy
Fast was :33, faster was :32, fastest was :31. Not that fast, but good control of pacing ;)

 
//That's where I do my swimming, as I can get in there at 4am or whenever I need to...except every 24hr I've been to swears up and down that they are a 25m pool and refuse to admit otherwise...I even brought measuring tape...75ft/25yds...they still say they are 25m... //




I love that you checked... that would bug me to no end! At least you know, poor people who don't know and thing they are smoking' their workouts!

What a summer for you!

No AM swim - pool maintenance. So, I swam in the slosh bucket here at work. Not only sloshy but bordering on 90 deg.
Cruised thru a 500 straight and then 10x50 mix of bk/br/fr @ :10RI
Had enough of that.
Have a series of ocean swim races on Sunday, so just keeping the blood flowing for the moment.

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Hey Monty
Here's the results of the Balboa-Newport Pier to Pier
the two who beat me: Mike McCaffery @ 40:03 and John Gleason @ 41:32
I came in at 42:15 closely followed by James Hardie at 42:19 - That was close!!

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The other issue that always makes me chuckle is they will call it an Olympic Sized pool. Though that is not as bad as LTF saying they pump fresh oxygen into their clubs. WTF does that even mean?

Yeah, I had to get the bottom of it. If they lie about meters, maybe they didnt even do an exact standard. Someone asked me the size once, and my answer went something like this: "Well, 24hr people say it is 25m, but I am near positive it is not. I think it's 25yds. Although I am not positive. I measured one of the blocks that rim the pool with my sandals, including one side of the concrete molding, then measured the length of my sandal distance and multiplied by total blocks. It may only be 24.5 yds." I brought measuring tape the next morning, early, so there wouldn't be a bunch of people there thinking "who the heck is this guy?!" Not only was it really annoying me, I also did not want to give that silly answer again... ;)

Hey steve, thanks for those results, looks like a fast and competitive race there. I have never heard of any of those 3 guys around you, where are they all coming from? I know the 60+ guy that was way up there, he is an ex olympian from back in the day, Gentes is his name i believe..Oh well, time to do some tough workouts i guess, or visit those longevity docs!!

Back up in the high desert and swam with dan today, did mostly pacing stuff for him;

10x100s@1;40- 1;23 to 1;17
1000swim--(dan asked for 1;21 pace and i did a 13;34, he was not quite up to it)
4x100kick@2;00- 1;50 to 1;48
10x100swim@1;40(tried to hold dan to a 1;18 pace, had to add 10 seconds rest on last 3) 1;18 to 1;16
3400SCY

1000 sw, build easy to cruise (~14:30ish)

20x50@:50 (~:40-:41)

100 easy mix

2100scy

I got pummeled at San Clemente OceanFest.. well kind of.
The age groups are 10 year divisions. So, I feel pretty good getting 3rd in the biathlon, considering my running sucks so bad. 38th OA out of about 90. An hour later was the mile. I took a mistep at the start and lost ground. So, diving under waves and such, my upper lip met a foot. It took me a bit to regain my bearings and I proceeded to swim past a lot of people. Over 150 raced it and I came in 24th OA. Sadly, I came in 4th in AG. While moving up the finishing chute I noticed the blood running down me and my lip got pretty fat. I decided to skip the other two events and call it a day. If they were 5 year divisions, I would have been 2nd and 1st.

So I'm estimating with the warm ups and swims, I did about 3500 yards and the 5 k beach run.

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I did that OF mile as well. What a mess, some dude in a wetsuit kept trying climb over me for half the second lap. Some girl who kept reverting to breast stroke, nearly kicking me in the head so couldnt get around. I had to swim under her at the black bouy to pass. haha I finally shoved the dude off me and he yelled at me. lol
Was a lot of fun but a very physical race.

That race is always crazy. Younger guys can lead off really fast. The kids aren't so fast until they get past the surf. I'm in between. But this time I stumbled and had to swim thru the kids. After the second time around black buoy, I got passed by some girl in a green suit. I got on her feet, but had to hammer it past the effort I could maintain for the rest of the race and had to let her go. I saw her later, young, tall, skinny, british accent. Congratulated her on a fine swim, but it made me think more how swimming is so much more technique than strength - she simply had no meat on her bones and cruised right past me.

This AM
500 swim no time
5x100 various kicks
4x150@2:00 all around 1:45
4x100 s/k cool

2000 sc yardages

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300 (50 fr/25 bk), 5x100 (50 breathe right, 50 breathe left) @1:30, 200 bk dolphin k
8x75 bk (25 k, 25 drill, 25 swim)
3x200 pull @2:50
3x200 @2:45
2x200 @2:40
1x200 "fast"
1x200 ez pull
100 kwf
3700 scy
200s were all <2:30, with "fast" one at 2:23.

swam 2000scm on Friday mostly easy with a few sprint 25's and a few 100's at race effort + 45min of biking doing threshold criss-cross intervals

Yesterday: 12:48 for swim leg of Marble Falls tri (1000m + scramble up slippery boat ramp) + 23mi bike + 4.4mi run, total time 1:43
water was quite warm

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Ya, those san clemente races are tough, lots of pointy end folks. Sounds like you had a solid day, good job there.

Todays swim in hot water, but cooler than the 106 outside;

broken 1000swim(5x200@2;50) 2;38/37/36/37/33---13;01
2x200IM kick@4;00--3;36/3;33
1000p@13;00--12;44(6;25/6;19)
2x200IM kick--3;39/3;32
2x200 brst/back@3;30--3;10/3;09
200 dolphin@4;00--3;42
8x25 fly/fr@30
3600SCY