I realize it's not the eighth week yet. I'm just trying to confuse Scedastic even further.
I also think that I was starting to get swimmer's ear, so I'm bringing Q-tips with me now. New sport, new problems.
Swim instructor got a kick out of it when I told her that I was watching youtube for swimming form. However, I forgot to tell her it was a video of Ryan Lochte's backstroke. Gosh, he swims like a fish.s.
Oh, good tip! Thanks! Looks like that stuff is just alcohol. I've got some 153 proof. Apparently, good for sanitizing the feet after a run and drying the ears. I wonder what else it might be good for?I have to put swim ear in mine every time or else I can't hear for the rest of the day, or I get dizzy spells.
13.2km (8.2mi), very nice and warm today...I now start to enjoy the scenery, rather than constantly scanning the road, which makes my run even more enjoyable !!
Freaky dude.20min swim. Pool says no diving. I'm not sure what the guy in the lane next to me was doing, but I get hit by a big splash and he's 10ft from the end of the pool. Cannonball? Honestly, I'm not sure what he's doing. I don't think that he's coming up for air at all. Plus, he swims with water shoes? Really? C'mon! (Well, unless he's got warts or something, then that's cool). As for me, practicing, just more practicing.
Oh yes, apparently it's allergy season here. Flonase, claritin, neti pot, and still congested. Awesome.
And sid, you, my floridian cousin, I hear ya on the allergies. Mine won't be around for a while, but I still gottta do all that stuff just to deal with mold and dust mite whatnots.20min swim. Pool says no diving. I'm not sure what the guy in the lane next to me was doing, but I get hit by a big splash and he's 10ft from the end of the pool. Cannonball? Honestly, I'm not sure what he's doing. I don't think that he's coming up for air at all. Plus, he swims with water shoes? Really? C'mon! (Well, unless he's got warts or something, then that's cool). As for me, practicing, just more practicing.
Oh yes, apparently it's allergy season here. Flonase, claritin, neti pot, and still congested. Awesome.
Good to see Scedastic found the eighth week in a timely manner, and a belated congratulations on a 1000 messages!
It's fun reading about Sid, Scedastic, and HBS's swimming adventures. I'm enviously supportive of your multimodal aerobic fitness! I think perhaps I'll follow JT's example and take up tree climbing, to complement the swimming and complete our reporting set of physical fitness media modalities--land, water, air. I guess we'd still be missing fire as an essential element. Perhaps RP can figure out a way work that in. I'd pay good money to see it.
Anyway, my nascent toe calluses felt fine after Thursday's somewhat bareful run, so I wanted to double the bareable distance, which I was able to do. My feet started to numb up, however, after about three miles bare (it gets pretty windy up by the top part of the fairgrounds), and my legs still felt a bit heavy after doing squats the day before, so I decided to cut the run short at that point. I had intended to run six miles or so, but couldn't bare the thought of putting the shoes back on for the last mile or so after experiencing the soleful pleasure of so much bfr for the first time in almost two months.
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