Long Time, No Type
Yet I am still training. We went for an ocean swim on Saturday. The ocean is hard work. I think I’ll be doing a lot of breaststroke during the race, the better to breathe and see. It’s a good thing …...
View ArticleToday, the Treadmill
Tomorrow the world! Or something. Anyhow, I did 25 minutes (including 5-min. cooldown) with three 1-minute running intervals. I’ve been doing more than 3 intervals in that span, but today I tried...
View ArticleCheck Me Out! I’m Jason Bourne!
Is what I said on Saturday. No, I have not become a highly trained assassin. Nor am I suffering from amnesia. But my new wetsuit is so buoyant that I, who can only float in the Dead Sea, was able …...
View ArticlePutting it Together
100m breaststroke + 700m freestyle = 800m And I did them in 100s! (Well, not the breaststroke lap. Still gasping at midpoint on that.) … Continue reading →
View ArticleGym
So on a speedy lunchtime trip to the gym (nearly all of my trips to the gym are speedy and at lunch, but this one was extra speedy), I did 10 minutes on the treadmill, including two 1-minute running...
View ArticleAnd Now We Return to Our Previously Scheduled Program
Saturday: walked 2 miles Sunday: swam 700 meters (600 freestyle, 100 breaststroke) … Continue reading →
View ArticleOverheated
We’re training for the Redondo Beach Triathlon in June. The race itself is pretty short, with a 1/2-mile swim, 6-mile bike, and 2-mile run. The bike and the run portions should be fairly easy, but I do...
View ArticleStumbling Around
I’ve been exploring those little widgets that a lot of sites have at the bottom of articles. Not all of them turned out to be particularly interesting, but I’ve become instantly addicted to one....
View ArticleSwimming and Biking and Cupcakes, Oh My!
One of my friends describes a cupcake as “the perfect ratio of frosting to cake,” and I think she’s got a point. She also describes my brother as “a sweet little cupcake baked by the devil,” and I...
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