Ironman Coeur d’Alene Swim Start Update
Received an email this morning from a fellow ATL email list—-someone inquired with Ironman about CDA’s swim start. And here it is, straight from them. Wanted to update you guys. And here’s a link to the announcement too: http://www.ironman.com/triathlon-news/articles/2013/05/swimsmart-initiative.aspx#axzz2Snz60QBz. It’s not a time trial start per se… but more of a controlled, restricted start. “The 2013 […]
Swimming in a Washing Machine
My parents have the kids for the weekend. (Thank you thank you thank you.) So what better to do than go out with friends for dinner (last night)… even when one friend is a Mountain Goat (heh heh)… even when three out of four of us at the table are lawyers… and even when I knocked […]
94 Miles and One Cold Swim
Because my horrific hip issues do not impact the swim and the bike (thank the Lord), I headed out for another long ride on Saturday. And an open water swim in my whale suit on Sunday. On Saturday, my CDA bound-friend Columbus went with me to ride. Dude, it was chilly, and it took us […]
Waterlogged
3500m in the pool tonight. Even though I am now showered, in jammies, and staring longingly at the nightnight room, I think someone could pick me up and wring water out of me. (If someone can actually pick me up and wring me out, then I might really be on to something – something truly marketable…) […]
Zooooooom (That was Fast!)
Hit the pool early this morning for a fifty minute continuous swim workout. I decide to push as hard as I could stand and put down a 2 mile swim (3250 meters). I finished in just under fifty-seven minutes, hitting the one mile right at thirty minutes. Obviously, I picked up the pace on the […]
Open Water Sunday
Today was only my fifth open water swim (ever). Much better than my first (for sure), and pretty successful overall. The Expert and I got a late start out to Lake Lanier. Ended up being a little crowd of “normal” beach goers (those with umbrellas, sans tri suit and goggles). We had a few […]
Run a Little, Swim a Little (Happy Father’s Day)
Today’s workout was a swim and a run, not supposed to be back-to-back. But I have found that life doesn’t always allow for that early morning workout and the afternoon workout. Sometimes I gotta squeeze it all in. I decided to run first, because I hate trying to squeeze my buns into my compression capris […]
Toe Curling Good
Ended up swimming tonight afterall. Funny how that works. Hell bent on rest day (that I haven’t really earned), and I end up at the gym swimming. I have been slacking on the swim for awhile. Since the race last month, really. Tonight was the first back-in-the-game swim workout, long overdue. Lifetime Fitness has a […]
Swimming and Stripping
The Expert and I decided to spend Mother’s Day at Lifetime Fitness – squeezing in a swim while the kids were in the play center, and then getting the kids and splishy-splashy with them in the pool. I am somewhere around 600m, when I see someone wander to the pool deck, carrying a small dry […]