I am going to be a fish out of water this weekend: trying my first duathlon. They always say: work on your weaknesses if you want to get better.

Today:
6 mile run

1000 free warm up
3x(300 cruise, 50 fast on 3:50)
5x(200 kick with board, 100 free cruise on :10 sec rest)
10x100 descend on 1:10 (last one at :54)
200 easy
5x200 pull on :10 sec rest
200 easy
(5850 SCY)

Then got big in the weight room. Working on those triathlete biceps.

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Thanks. It will be "Miss" bubbles, though - all that tri and school means no social life!
I cannot officially say where I'm going yet, as I am still waiting to hear back from two other schools. I have 3 acceptances and all of those schools have 50m pools :D

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disclaimer: PhD not MD

Wrapped up the month with 89,200 yardages - my biggest ever and I doubt I'll ever top it (until Jan 2013 resolution swim, maybe)

20x100 alt fr/br kick @1:30&2:00 fr: 1:10 ~ 1:04
500 various kicks
2x[25fl/50bk/75br/100fr]@:10RI
100 br kick
10x50 alt br/fr@:50
100 br kick
10x50 fr@:40 :30~:35
300 s/k cool

4500 sc yardages

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

Nice job. No swim for me today; slept in ... :-) ran, though.

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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

400 w/u
100 kick (
2x (5 x 100) on 2:00 - held 1:18
400 pull
10x50 on 1:00 sprint to backstroke flag, easy for the rest
2x(5x50) on 1:00 - held :36

plus some other stuff (easy laps, easy kicks) for a total of 3200, scm

total week (and month, year, decade)... about 12,000m

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Swimming Workout of the Day:

Favourite Swim Sets:

2020 National Masters Champion - M50-54 - 50m Butterfly

Good work... rode 3 hrs yesterday from 0400-0700 helping out at a charity spin. I should be good for some swimming tonight and tomorrow morning.

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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)

Went to the pool twice this week-just 1km easy both times.
Physically I have pulled up pretty well from th ironman, except for a sore ankle..
I planning on a month off running, two weeks off riding, and next week off swimming.

This will be the first year since approx 1999 that I will swim over winter. No excuses next summer:)

Meet report South Central Zone Championships Day 1,

I swam 100IM, 50 BR, and 100 FLY today. It was a little bit hectic. The meet started with the 500's and the rest of the people could arrive later. There was some major construction on the main freeway heading to the pool, and I got there a bit late. I warmed up OK, but I didn't get a chance to practice on the blocks, or get any sprinting in.

First Race 100 IM...

It's pretty cool to be in the South Central Zone. FINA 2011 #1 men's 45-49 200IM (lcm) was in the lane next to me (Anders Rasmussen) in lane 5, and FINA 2011 #1 men's 45-49 200IM (scm) (Ross Davis) was in lane 2. I was in lane 6. I had a terrible start and kinda panicked. I tried to get back in the race too quickly. I managed to be in it by the end of the breast stroke. Then the panic and lack of warmup hit me and I really faded over the last 10 meters. My final time was 57.35. I'm pretty happy with the race considering all the things I did poorly. http://www.youtube.com/...amp;feature=youtu.be

Second Race 50 BR...

A decent start! Well, at least it was improved from last time. Its tough to get breast stroke rhythm when sprinting, but I think I did pretty well until the last 5 meters. All in all, my best race of the day. 28.51. http://www.youtube.com/...amp;feature=youtu.be. I won my AG but the region record is 28.08 so I didn't get it. (I think it's a body suit era record -- sour grapes.)

Third Race 100 FLY...

Haven't swum a competitive 100 fly since high school. This time I swam between Ross and Anders -- 1,2, and 3. I thought I was going out slow enough, but I was wrong. I led (my AG) at the 75, but Ross tore me up on the last 25. Anders had a long day, but still almost caught me at the end. Final time 56.35? (I forgot this exact time. I will get it tomorrow. I was out in 25.9, so there was a lot of fading on this 100 too. No video for this one unfortunately.

100 BR, 50 FLY, 200IM tomorrow...

IS this a SCM meet? I watched your videos and strokes look good. Like you said, start was a little late, and you do some backward armswing at the gun that looks to keep you back a bit. Turns seem a bit shallow too, you have a great kick off the wall, but it seems to be too high. You are hitting the incoming wave, and with your good kick, you could probably get one more underwater if you go just a bit deeper. Nice job, each race will just get you more comfortable with the exact opposite of triathlon. 30 sec to a couple minute all out bursts, while trying to hold form, while your brain seems to just shut off, is nothing like the cruise mode of time trailing a triathlon..

Good luck with the rest of the meet, can't wait to see your longer events.

Todays swim was still just getting er done, but slowly coming around. I just feel like if i go really hard that i will get sick again, not sure if i'm paranoid or feeling something so small that it could be anything;

2x(3x100swim@1;30/2x100IM kick@2;00/broken 400IM--50's@1;00/100IM kick@2;00
1;21/20/18/1;49/1;46--IM-5;11(36/35/42/41/44/43/36/34/ kick-1;42
1;17/16/14/1;42/1;42/-IM- 4;57(34/33/40/39/43/41/34/33)kick-1;36
5x200p@2;45 moderate-2;31/30/29/29/26
3x100 fly kick@2;00 descend-1;53/1;49/1;46
100SD
3400SCY

That's an incredible time congrats and good luck tomorrow!!!

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the 'mrs' wasnt referring to you but to JEFF!

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hee hee

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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

So i had no idea what to do today, so i did exactly what i did yesterday, just changed the groupings.

2x(300swim@4;30/200IM kick@4;00/2x200IM broken@50's on 1;00/100IM kick@2;00)
3;56/3;35/IM's--2;32(34/41/43/34)2;27(34/39/41/33)/ 1;42
3;57/3;25/IM's--2;26(34/39/40/33)2;22(33/38/40/31)/ 1;35
10x100p@1;20-1;15 to 1;13
300 dolphin kick-3;24
100SD

Sweet day SH! Keep up the great work. Yeah man, work those starts and walls b/c in the middle you are rockin' it!

You'll be strong tomorrow!

what's the word on the duathlon? love to hear how it went.

the duathlon was a 5k run, 40k bike, 5k run in southern virginia. perfect weather and I felt really good. Both 5ks were in the 16s, which was my goal. I rode on my training road bike, so the 40k was brutal (I'm a fish used to draft-legal racing, not doing 40k time-trials). Those old guys with the $10000000000 bikes destroyed me, but overall I had a great time. Definitely feel like my biking is improving, but I am dying to get back into the water tomorrow.....

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that's cool. sounds like a great day, both runs in the 16s seems pretty sick and incredible to me. i'm sure that brutal ride only made you better too. sweet.

 


200 sw
400 kick & drills w/fins
8 x25@ 25
300 pull

20x 25@ 30 Fly

50 easy

2x (300, 200, 100 @ 1:20 base av pace 1:10 ish, 50 easy, 8x25 @ 25, 50 easy)

50 easy

3600 scm

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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)

Thanks sweet_wtr! Also thanks CruseVegas.

Monty: I wish it was SCM! Unfortunately it's good ol' American yards.

A little tired today, so just results.

100 br: 1:02:86
50 fly: 24.64
200 im: 2:04.3