Just got back from my 4 days of racing, and boy are my arms tired!! Did the 9 events of swimming I had entered, same exact ones I did last year, only this year it was sanctioned as the World championships of the Senior Games…Sounds like a big deal, but basically the same amount of swimmers as last year, with just a few smatterings of some really top swimmers. Felt a bit off on day one, but swam ok and each day felt better while bettering almost all of my times from last year just a tiny bit.
And at late 60’s if you can go faster a year later, that is a double win as the real goal is to try and hold the times from the previous years…Pool is at altitude too, forgot that until I did that 400IM and my lungs were searching drastically for some more O2 molecules…Here is the breakdown of my events and my placings each day, Meter pool short course:
400IM–6;31. Gold
200 Breast–3;21–Gold
400 Free–5;54–Bronze(never swam this and paced it waaaay too slow, doing last 50 in 37+)
Last day ends up being the hardest as I never get out of the pool, 3 events in a row with only a few heats inbetween. It was tough getting up at 5;30 everyday too as I’m used to swimming at noon all year. This was wed to fri, then Saturday to the triathlon where I ended up getting the bronze in a real death march. My pacemaker went off right at the start of the run so it was like hiking Everest the entire 3.2 miles, but I did win the swim overall of all the age groups. So that was nice, had my brand new DeSoto wetsuit and it felt really fast and turned out to be once the times came in…
Monty, great race report and those are some fast times. Going faster YoY in your 60s is really impressive (if you know, you know). You’re an inspiration
Thanks for the props PP and Tiger, really hope you(Tiger) get yourself sorted out soon and back in the saddle so to speak. Sometimes when we feel good we take for granted the stuff we do everyday, and only when it is taken from us do we hit the panic button…
No injures or sickness after a day off so back in the local pool to ease into another bloc of swimming with a little of the other two now that I have a tiny head of steam:
30x100’s as;
6x100buoy@1;40(1;28 to 1;24)3x100frog@2;00(1;56 to 1;49)
6x100p@1;30(1;19/18/17/16/14/12)3x100frog@2;00(1;49/48/49)
3x(2x100p@1;30/1;40/100back@1;50) pulls(1;20 to 1;17’s)backs(1;32/30/29)3x100frog@2;00(1;51/50/49)
2x(2x50p@;50/1;00/50swim@1;00)pulls(39/38/37/36)swims(35+/33+)50 kick
3350SCY in 58;30. warm pool
Well how did the surgery go?? Hope you are in recovery mode now with a plan for the future that gets you back to where you need to be…
Feeling fatigue today, but still uninjured and not sick, so got in my yardages:
3x100buoy@1;40(1;27/27/26)300frog@6;00(5;44)
1500p easy descend@20;00(19;44–6;40/6;34/6;30)300frog@6;00(5;38)
3x(200p@3;00/100frog@2;00)pulls(2;37/35+/36)frogs(1;51/49/50)
6x50@1;00 as 2buoy/1frog-buoys(42 to 40’s)frogs(55’s)
3600SCY in 58;30
hi!
procedure went well in that they fixed what needed to be fixed - there was both a labral tear and ischiofemoral impingement. We knew about the impingement, the labral tear was a maybe, and the surgeon here didn’t think there would be one when I saw him in late Sept (the surgeon’s office in OK had said “we think this is a labral tear only and we want an MRI with contrast”).
anyway, I was very disappointed about the labral tear because the recovery is 6 months instead of 3.
I was in a ton of pain post surgery yesterday. I am in less now and hope it doesn’t escalate again, though there is a very real possibility of that happening.
I am so glad the surgery part is behind me.
the sleeping contraption for my legs SUCKS.
thanks for asking. I hope to be at least sidestroking or doing some old lady breaststroke in a month or so. We’ll see. Right now I am happy to have the surgery behind me and if I am in pain, it is in a different spot and that is nice somehow bc I don’t have the mental assocation with it that I do the specific pain I suffered with for 10.5 months that escalated so much in the past two months or so. Does that make sense? Like I knew how that behaved and knew when it started a little it was going to get terrible, so the novelty of something different is a relief somehow
Glad to hear they found and corrected ur hip issues. While in recovery mode it will seem like forever but stick with the therapy. A year from now it will seem like the recovery was only a couple of weeks verses a couple of months. Funny how the brain helps us move forward!
makes perfect sense… I can tell when my shoulder pain is starting up, and I flinch/cringe in anticipation of the next few weeks of rehab/getting through it…
new pains are at least a change
glad the surgery went well,
[avuncular mode on] please try and eat enough to fuel the recovery… [/avuncular]
4x400IM 7:38, 50, 8:03, 8:09
oh dear. First one felt great, fly went swimmingly, next didn’t feel much slower but was, and so on. HR hit 172 which is max in the pool for me, so must still be carrying some fatigue from the relatively heavy month just passed.
Ended up at the low pool and it was only 81, so the 7;30am time was energized by an unusual environment for me. Think I finally have the week of racing out of my body, but not quite ready for fast stuff in strokes as of yet;
3x(300/200/100buoy or pull@1;30 base/200frog@4;00)300’s buoy(4;14/4;10/pull-3;56)200’sbuoy(2;50/2;44/pull-2;29)100’sbuoy(1;18/1;17/pull1;08+)frogs(3;42/3;42/3;34)
2x(3x50p@;50/50back@1;00)pulls(39/38’s)backs(42/41)200frog@4;00(3;43)
6x50p@50(39/38’s)50breast(43)200frog
3550SCY in 60 minutes
One more morning in the cool low pool, had another great feeling the entire time:
2x(3x200buoy or pull@3;10/3;00/200frog@4;00/200back@3;30)buoys(2;49/47/44)pulls(2;36/32/27)frogs(3;42/3;38)backs(3;04/3;00)
2x(3x100p@1;30/1;40/1;50/50fl@1;00)pulls(1;19 to 1;12)fly(36/35)
2x(200frog@4;00/4x50p@;50/50stroke@1;00)frogs(3;46/44/42)pulls(39 to 35’s)fly(36)back(40+)
3600SCY in 62 minutes
that’s kind - thanks. I didn’t need heavy duty pain meds yesterday! Plus I got to go to PT and now have some isometric exercises to do.
I’m 84+ hrs post surgery now and hope I’m done with the heavy duty pain meds.
Good to be off the hard meds, now you can focus on how things feel, even if it is not pleasant for awhile…
Back to the local high pool, and 85 degrees today, ooooofffff! I opted to do a long distance type of day, 4k in just over an hour with about 1k of kicking, so not a ton of rest. But kept it all aerobic today, haven’t done one of those in awhile:
3x100buoy@1;40(1;28/26/24)300frog@6;00(5;40)
1650pull@22;00(21;29–6;36/6;31/6;28/1;54)200frog@4;00(3;43)
8x100p@1;30(1;18/17/16/16/16/16/16/15)200frog@4;00(3;40)
5x100p@1;30(1;18/18/18/18/17)50 kick
4000SCY in 61;30
I did two shoulder PT exercises for the first time in a month yesterday! haven’t been able to do any because hip pain made ANY stabilization of my body painful and need that to be able to do shoulders.
My wife and I sold our home in late September and have been traveling in our RV since then attending my 50th class reunion (or as tell people my 2nd 25th class reunion), touring 4 presidential libraries and visiting my brother and his family. We are now on our way to our daughters house south of Atlanta until our new house is completed late December (next to a lifetime fitness no less). Been a nice break from swimming but looking forward to jumping back in next week when we arrive in Atlanta……
Sounds like you and your wife are having a blast travelling the country, wish it could be me!! I also did my 50th reunion last month, was really great to see many that I hadn’t seen in those 50 years, and some that I had occasionally run into. Unfortunately it was also a time to find out who was no longer with us and why, seems like about 30% or so didnt make it this far in life… And looking at folks with the American physique, probably will be a lot less in 10 years at the 60th too. We really are in a bubble in this world we live and train in, those outside live entirely different lives…
Today felt sluggish, so popped in some faster 50’s here and there to wake my body up:
4x100swim@1;45(1;28 to 1;26)4x100frog@2;00(1;56 to 1;49)4x100p@1;30(1;19/17/15/14)2x100IM kick@2;00(1;53/52)
3x(2x50swim@1;00@200 pace/100p@1;30/100frog@2;30)50’s swim(35+35/35/33+/35/33)pulls(1;17/15/12)frogs(1;49/48/46)
2x(2x100p@1;40/1;50/50stroke@1;00/50frog@1;30)pulls(1;17 to 1;12)fly(36)back(39+)50SD
2950SCY in 57 minutes
