Run, Baby, Run….and bring your friends and family

The swim pace got me thinking…what is my swim pace per 100 yards? In a lucky twist of fate, I found out today. I had time for a quick workout, then “had” to meet my husband at the bounce place. For those of you who are not aware of what a “bounce place” is, wait until you have young children in a rainy climate! It’s a giant warehouse-ish space, decorated in loud, crayola on crack colors, filled with inflatable slides, bounce houses, obstacle courses and balls and toys. It also has my daughter’s favorite toy, a drinking fountain. (Glad we regularly go there so she can practice dumping water down her shirt and pants, then want to take her clothes off. In public.) My kids needed to run around as much as I needed to exercise, so we planned to take them to play for an hour or so. Meaning, I had time to jump in the pool, swim, swim, swim and hop out. I’ve never done this, at least in my memory, but…”what the heck. I’ll just swim a straight through until I run out of time.” So I did. I’m a little disappointed in my pace, actually. Slow, slow, slow. That said, it also didn’t feel like I was working really hard. (I’m still recovering from the 75 or so squat jumps from Monday’s class. We celebrated a guy’s birthday by doing 49 reps of lots of exercises…next time, couldn’t he just say he was 20?) It was a nice cruise of a swim, anyway.

On the way home, my son turned into a terrible three right before my eyes. He screamed, I believe for the following reasons:

1. Didn’t want to ride in Daddy’s car.
2. Wanted his coat on.
3. Wanted to live at the bounce place (and sleep on the floor).
4. Wanted his coat off.
5. Wanted to stop on the freeway so he could run to Daddy’s car.
6. Wanted to go home.
7. Wanted to go to the pizza store.
8. Wanted to go to the drycleaner.
9. Wanted to go to the grocery store.
10. Wanted to drive anywhere in town but home.
11. Wanted to stay in the car.
12. Wanted to get out of the car.
13. Wanted his car seat unbuckled.
14. Wanted to stay in his car seat.
15. Wanted to watch TV.

When he was told no, (not a big surprise!) I think he wanted all those things at once. The best part? At dinner, I told Kirk that there would be N-0-T-V. Without missing a beat, he said, “No TV? But Mommy, you were supposed to tell me I could watch TV.”

Gues we need to start spelling things backwards.

Workout:

• Type: Swim
• Date: 12/26/2007
• Time: 15:40:00
• Total Time: 00:36:00.00
• Distance: 2,000 yd
• Average Pace: 1:48.23/100yd