This is going to be a short blog entry tonight. I've got my Twitter Christmas party and I need to wash my hair. I'd like to say it starts at 7 pm EST but it started earlier. The boys from South Africa, Tri-stemmet and Trijackel started when I woke up. I'm taking over the evening shift and they will probably take over again, once I go to bed. Global party, you gotta love it.
Today was the best swim session I've ever had and it was not based on speed, but on stroke. I focused on taking the least amount of strokes to get across 25 meters. I'm normally at 21 strokes. I watched a video about swimming from a nobody. Some kid marine name JimmyDShea. For some reason his video got through to me. It was one of those ah ha moments. I ended up doing most all of my laps with 17 strokes from one end to the other. My best was 14 strokes and I did 15 strokes a couple of times.
I finally think I understand technique. For most of the swim I was using my hips to thrust from. It felt so effortless and I was passing people in all the lanes beside me. However, they were slow and with any stroke I would have passed them. Just to be clear. Ha ha.
After the swim I had a meeting at work and then left early. I had my friend, Gord Brauer, from Winnipeg coming to visit and I couldn't wait to catch up and have beers with him. I met Gord at the Morden Tinman Triathlon over 20 years ago. He was behind me in the registration line and we started chatting.
Gord's claim to fame is that he says he is God's gift to women in the bedroom. Gord hasn't had a girlfriend in a while and at 46 years old has never been married. It was good to hear that Gord now has a regular girl friend and he's now getting laid regularly. I told Gord he had to leave because I was having a Twitter Party. Just kidding, he had a Toronto Raptor's NBA game to go to.
For the rest of the night it's the Twitter Christmas Party and Jamie's coming by to pick my brain on some Internet stuff. I also think my daughter may be bringing her boyfriend by to meet Alice and I for the first time. I hope I'm not too drunk when he gets here.
Oh, and one last thing. I calculated that I spent $10,802.27 on triathlons last year. Not including travel. Which works out to .96 cents per km or $1.54 per mile of training. The only household expense we spend more on was groceries.
Swim - 1:07:23 / 3050 meters.
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4 comments:
B
Enjoyed the video. will try it tomorrow. still need some speed, maybe this dude just showed me how.
J
Lets race. Lets see who can make it 25 meters with less strokes. haha
14 strokes in 25m, but I'm still slow. That's Total Immersion.
I'll keep #tweetxmas going until the lads can pick it up again.
JM, I'm slow at 14 strokes too. But I keep hearing to focus on less strokes. I'm just trying to do less strokes and keep the heart rate between 125 - 143 bpm and let the time fall where it may.
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