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Aug. 6th, 2013
This morning, about 5 am, Zoey started knocking stuff off the bedside tables.
She rarely sleeps with me. I moved one of the fish beds into the bedroom and I know she spends some time in there but since I'm asleep, lordknows what she does... But knocking stuff off and making noise is not cool.
So I grabbed her and snuggled her in close to me so she couldn't move and, after a minute or so she quit trying and we both went to sleep. It was just delicious.
Today is Chef Anita day. She's busy in the kitchen now.
I'll go swimming at 11. Today I am going to try and start teaching myself how to breathe on both sides. Right now, I roll to my right to breathe. And my upper right arm kind of bothers me. I'm thinking it may be because it's working harder than my left. I never roll to the left so that's what I need to learn than I can alternate left and right and give everybody a fighting chance.
Thanks to the internets and to YouTube, I have info and a decent idea of how to do some drills to help me learn. I think, right now, getting my technique equal is more better than getting milage.
Anita made me some pickle brine but she broke her bottle of fish sauce so I need to stop and get her some before or after the pool.
And that's about it for things on the list today. I'm still organizing my music on the desktop. It's going slowly because I am clueless and the machine is a dog. I need to reformat and rebuild but I have to wait until after my brother's newsletter goes out. I've waiting more than 5 years, another couple of weeks isn't going to kill me.
It's hot but I'm trying to pretend it isn't. My beloved air conditioner is helping me in my denial.
She rarely sleeps with me. I moved one of the fish beds into the bedroom and I know she spends some time in there but since I'm asleep, lordknows what she does... But knocking stuff off and making noise is not cool.
So I grabbed her and snuggled her in close to me so she couldn't move and, after a minute or so she quit trying and we both went to sleep. It was just delicious.
Today is Chef Anita day. She's busy in the kitchen now.
I'll go swimming at 11. Today I am going to try and start teaching myself how to breathe on both sides. Right now, I roll to my right to breathe. And my upper right arm kind of bothers me. I'm thinking it may be because it's working harder than my left. I never roll to the left so that's what I need to learn than I can alternate left and right and give everybody a fighting chance.
Thanks to the internets and to YouTube, I have info and a decent idea of how to do some drills to help me learn. I think, right now, getting my technique equal is more better than getting milage.
Anita made me some pickle brine but she broke her bottle of fish sauce so I need to stop and get her some before or after the pool.
And that's about it for things on the list today. I'm still organizing my music on the desktop. It's going slowly because I am clueless and the machine is a dog. I need to reformat and rebuild but I have to wait until after my brother's newsletter goes out. I've waiting more than 5 years, another couple of weeks isn't going to kill me.
It's hot but I'm trying to pretend it isn't. My beloved air conditioner is helping me in my denial.
Yeah but...
Aug. 6th, 2013 01:40 pmTurns out watching YouTube videos does not translate all that well to doing it myself in the water! I tried all the stuff I read about and saw and I could not even tell if I was doing it right or if it was even working. I finally gave up and just did laps my regular way. 50 of 'em. I would have done more but, again, the toe cramps. I was getting pretty tired anyway.
But, I decided it was time for another lesson. The instructors at the pool this Summer don't seem too interesting except for one. There's a guy who works with the kids swim team whose name is Mark and everyone calls Coach Mark. The sign up sheet for one team thing says 'ask Coach Mark or Jim' so maybe his first name is actually Coach. He has all the right moves, voices and looks for a swim coach. And he had an opening at 10:30 this coming Thursday so I grabbed it.
I want him to look at my form but mainly to answer my questions:
But, I decided it was time for another lesson. The instructors at the pool this Summer don't seem too interesting except for one. There's a guy who works with the kids swim team whose name is Mark and everyone calls Coach Mark. The sign up sheet for one team thing says 'ask Coach Mark or Jim' so maybe his first name is actually Coach. He has all the right moves, voices and looks for a swim coach. And he had an opening at 10:30 this coming Thursday so I grabbed it.
I want him to look at my form but mainly to answer my questions:
- Is a long swim better than a fast one?
- Is it ok to swim 30-45 mins a day? 7 days a week? Is more better? Or Less?
- Is bilateral breathing important/worth the hassle/possible to old fat ladies to learn?
- Is interval swimming important or is it just as fine to go for it, stopping only briefly between laps?
- Is varying strokes valuable for reasons other than boredom relief?
- And I want info on master sessions. (which I seriously doubt I'll ever do as they are in the evening) but I still want to know.