may 8th:1200 m swim
today: replaced punctured tire on bike (tire died on ride home from dangerhaus last night). patched punctured tire to create spare. cleaned and lubed bike a bit. funfun. hooray for tire levers!
swam today, but only 900 meters, as i started to get a fairly bad stitch in my side. i keep staring at bananas in la verde’s on swimming days, and then not getting them. eit. must increase potassium intake!!
also finally went to aikido again. a bit sad that i haven’t been able to go in more than a week, but that’s life i guess. it was a smaller class today, the first time i have been to one this small, and that was kind of cool in it’s own way. i should also be able to go tomorrow, but then monday they are having a belt test, and i can’t go this friday or next wednesday, so tuesday next week will be the only learning day next week. ah well. seeing the testing should be a lot of fun and a cool experience in itself, as i have never seen an aikido test before.
on sunday, i swam 1400 meters. it is cool that on the weekends they actually open up the lanes the long way. it is much harder to have only half the breaks. but probably good for me. i had one of those “euphoria” moments at about 1100 meters, the kind you get when/after running, when the endorphins kick in. it only lasted a little while, but it was cool nonetheless.
swam 1300 meters (or maybe yards. i can’t make anything tell me how long the short lengths are in the big z center pool). stan showed up for his swim at some point too.
walked from davis to harvard.
today was swimming. swim time was cut short due to getting back late
from ice cream, and having to meet with laura after, but i went with
jenny and had time for 650 meters. i played with the kickboards and
the leg immobilizer thing today. when i use the leg widget (such that
i can only use my arms) i go a lot faster. weird. using the shallow
pool is always a bit odd, somehow i never feel like i have to do as
much work to keep “on top” of the pool. also, i was entertained as i
left the pool thinking “damn, i didn’t have time to do anything” that
it was 26 lengths of the pool, and that was about where i topped out
in utter tiredness when i was swimming last summer. cool.
