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I'm a lucky woman who loves her life. I have an amazing husband who makes me laugh and challenges me all at the same time I have two very young, bright, funny, entertaining children and a job I love as a physcial therapist. In my free time, I'm a runner (slow but sure), a hiker, a writer (at least by avocation), and a human jungle gym for my little ones. This is my third 1/2 marathon, along with a couple fulls, but my first foray back into distance running since the two back-to-back little ones. (My running partner's favorite fact about me is that my kids are 363 days apart.) It's also my first attempt at any type of blogging, and I'm basically computer illiterate, so hang in there with me.



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Kick, kick, kick, swim, swim, swim, kick, kick, kick

December 5th, 2007 by writeontherun

In a glorious “anything but the treadmill” workout, I hopped into the pool, aiming for 3,000 yards in the hour. I wanted to test the possibility of a 3.1 mile open-water swim next year, and see where I stood. And, let’s face it, I had two kids that I would have sold for cheap today, so I was ready for some good exercise and stress relief. Here’s the workout:

500 warm up
500 pace
200 kick
3 x 200 IM (with a little drill for the fly. I’ve been out for a while…) :45 rest
4 x 100 free descending on the 1:50
10 x 50 free, :60, :55, :50 (x3 with a 50 cool)
150 cool down (and I needed it!)

I started swimming in the last open space, smooshed against the wall right in front of the guard. The interesting thing about my pool and gym is that they have a solid number of swimmers, but a huge variety of speeds. I’m happy to circle, but couldn’t find anybody near my pace. Plus, a couple lanes had some kids’ classes. So, I took what I could get. Smoosh. And I warned the guard. “You know, I have pretty splashy flip turns. You might want to scoot back a bit. I don’t want to soak you. I’ll remember for the first 200, but then it’s just an old habit.” “You’ll be fine. I’m getting in soon anyway.” “Are you sure? You’ll get splashed for sure,” I said dubiously. “Yeah, yeah.” When I looked over at the end of my warm-up, she was about 4 feet farther back. And laughing. So, I’m still not sure about the crazy distance open water swim (are you reading this, Dave?) but it sure feels great to be in the water again!

Workout:

  • Type: Swim
  • Date: 12/05/2007
  • Time: 16:10:00
  • Total Time: 1:00:00.00
  • Distance: 2,850 yd
  • Average Pace: 2:06.26/100yd

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2 Responses

  1. Brad Hefta-Gaub Says:
    December 5th, 2007 at 10:33 pm

    I’ve decided I much prefer open water swimming over pool swimming. I just don’t like turns… ;)

  2. kimayars Says:
    December 6th, 2007 at 12:14 am

    Ugh, swimming. You lost me there!