Swmmr Grrl

Nearly as exciting as watching someone swim laps

Wednesday, October 27, 2004

NO DOPING

Program:

4x200: (100 Crawl, 50 Back, 50 Breast)
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800 M (approx. 20 minutes)

Before I started swimming I thought, damn I should have taken some pseudoephidrine before I came swimming. Not as doping, but because I had some sinus problems. Luckily I had a good swim anyway.

My son's lessons went well too!

Tuesday, October 19, 2004

ON A ROLL

SWMMRGRRL IS BACK! AND THIS TIME SHE'S FAT

4x200: (100 Crawl, 50 Back, 50 Breast)
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800 M (approx. 20 minutes)

Forgot my watch again. I'm feeling downright chubby these days. Even my swimsuit was tight. Geez!

There was another women in my lane doing the most bizarre breast stroke I've ever seen. I thought she might be doing resistance training for strength, it was so wacked. She threw her arms out in front of her and then brought them back completely straight in large arcs and then doing a very strong frog kick to thrust her forward. All the while with her head *out of the water*.

I observed her while I swam and decided that it wasn't a resistance exercise but extremely bad form. However she was keeping a pretty good speed, so I decided that she was a *very strong* bad swimmer.

Later I saw that she put her head in the water as if she was moving her body like for the butterfly, and I again started to think that she was doing resistance training. But know, things were just too weird. Finally I decided that she must have thought "that fat woman is swimming faster than me, maybe I should do what she is doing". Anyway, I'm convinced if that girl had a good trainer that she could become a very fast swimmer.

Thursday, October 14, 2004

THNNRGRRL?!?

5x200: (100 Crawl, 50 Back, 50 Breast)
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1000 M (approx. 25 minutes)

My weight has sky-rocketed to 80 kilos, and I'm not at all happy about this development. So you will most definitely be seeing more of Swmmrgrrl here. I plan to swim twice a week: Thursday mornings and Tuesday evenings.

Plus eat less, ride the exercise bike more, surf the web less, etc.

I'd love to get down to 60 kilos again, but I've got a lot of muscle, so my target weight is 67 kilos. I hope to weigh that little by my birthday next year.

Tuesday, October 05, 2004

4x200: (100 Crawl, 50 Back, 50 Breast)
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800 M (approx. 20 minutes)

Forgot my watch at my physiotherapists. All in all a good swim.