TAKING IT EASY!

50 crawl
50 back
50 crawl
50 breast
50 crawl
50 butterfly
50 crawl
50 back
50 crawl
50 breast
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500 m (approx 13 minutes - forgot my watch)

I'm still taking it easy on the shoulder. Today I was tired because I was up late last night doing my taxes, so I took a nice easy program with a lot of variation.

FRESH MEAT

2 x 200 crawl
50 back
50 breast
messing around in the warm water bassin (approx. 3 minutes)
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500m (13:45:49)

As you might guess I forgot to push my stopwatch when I finished my swim. Only as I was entering the locker room, did I realize that I had forgotten. So the above time reflects both the swim and messing around.

Unfortunately I've been having some shoulder pain, which is why I skipped the last 2 Tuesdays.
I went to my physiotherapist a week ago, and she told me that I better take things easy. Since I've proved to myself that I will be able to swim the distance of the race in August, I've decided to take her advice. I've got some pain in the rotater cuff (classic "swimmer's shoulder") but having soon reached age 40, I'm also at a higher risk for "frozen shoulder" (adhesive capsulitis), which is a condition that you really can do little about, and whose etiology is unclear.

Anyway the swim went fine, but since I was feeling some pain, I decided it was best to stop after 500m. My physiotherapist had done some controlled damage to the rotater in order to get it to start the healing process, and I don't want to spoil her efforts.

Swimming at a different time than usual was nice. Really fast swimmer in the lane next to me. Nice not to be the fastest person in the pool for the change. Motivation is much easier if surrounded by really good swimmers.

SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO

1000 m crawl (21:21:86)
50 m back
50 m breast
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1100 m

I was really in doubt as to whether I should go swimming or not this evening. I was pretty tired from gardening and just tired in general. I decided to just swim a kilometer nice and easy and see if I could do it all in crawl without stopping. I could and I was glad that I decided to swim after all.

I went right as the pool was closing, and I was the last one in the pool. So nice. When I finished my swim, I decided to tease the lifeguards who were walking around finishing up all of the small tasks needed to close the pool. I swam underwater across the lanes right by the edge of the pool to get to the ladder on the other side rather than jumping out at the end of the pool. Suddenly I was silent and invisible. When I surfaced from the water, I could see that one of the lifeguards had walked over to see where I was.

Anyway that's about the extent of my swimming pool humor repertoire.