Swim TimeTrial

Well, it just might be time for me to move to the deep end. (Yikes!)

What does that mean? Well, the deep end has faster swimmers, doing a higher-volume workout each time. I'd suspected that I was right in between, because the cutoff is a 30-minute 1500m, and I knew I was close to that. Today, I had the chance to really find out where I stack up, as the workout today was a half hour warmup followed by a timetrial. So how'd I do?

27:29

Yep. And that's all 30 laps, 60 lengths, 1500m. It's a great time, but it puts a little more pressure on me to make the move to the shark tank. I think I'll give it another week.

Making Tracks

I'm so proud of my honey! I remember when a 20 minute run was a real challenge - and yesterday, we did over an hour. Fish Creek Park sure looks different in the winter; it's bare, but beautiful. There's a sense of openness that is a little bizzare, until you realize it's because there's no tall grass, and no leaves on any of the trees.
You can tell there are a lot of people using the park-- you don't see as many as in the summer, but there are bike tracks, foot prints, tire treads from the plow, and even some cross-country ski tracks. We managed to do the entire loop.
Today, we also got to the pool portion of Super Sunday. I did 3,100 m
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Although racing season hasn't really started yet, it's certainly Registration season! I'm signed up for Melissa's in September (thanks, Dan!), and early-bird registration for the Vulcan Tinman is next weekend.

More to come.

Spicy Thai!

"Spicy Thai" has nothing to do with my workout today... aside from the fact that I'm glad I ran before dinner, because right now I'm eating Tums like they're candy. I ordered a 2 out of 5 for spice, and it was almost inedible. My cohort from South Carolina had a 4/5 and wasn't even breaking a sweat, but one of the other guys who ordered a "2" tried the "4" and said they were about the same. Could just be the buildup, or maybe the cook just spilled the chili flakes.

More to the point though, I found a solution to the rarity of streetlamps... run before sunset! I even saw a few locals out and about (no, I don't say 'out and aboot'--I don't care what the Americans think! It's not 'ahwt and abaowt', either.) The weather down here tonight is great; in the plus teens celcius. Makes me want to get on my bike and ride!

I'd better be losting weight. The pants are baggy, and I'm eating pretty darn healthy down here.

37:42, distance unknown, but I'd guess 6-7 km.