Trying to Work,Swim Hard

Okay, I am trying to swim hard. I swam easy at Finley this morning, I don't know why. I went to Ridgway after noon to do some hard butterfly and I ended up talking with Gail R. mostly, although I did get some hard 25s in.

Finley
500 swim choice
500 kick on back with fins
1000 swimming?
7x100 pace
300ez
3000 yards?

Ridgway
3x100 1 arm fly
some hard 25s fly

Stutter Step

I went on a roadie with Joe and we did not swim one lap. I think I swam on Monday and Tuesday the 22 and the 23, and I returned to the water Saturday the 27th. I swam with 10 SRM swimmers, not too hard but it was mostlly a freestyle workout too. Sunday I swam on my own as I did this morning at Finley.
1000 choice
500 kick with fins
500 easy free
10x50 free 60 sec
6x50 free no breaathe 1st lap
2800 yards

Most importantly, I went to the Y later in the morning to do P/T. A bit of soreness in right bicep when doing curls. 15 minutes of rowing, flawless. Did shoulder therapy and I did some pull ups without favoring the right side. I did 3 short sets, 3, 4, and4. I am looking forward to tomorrrow.

Easy is the Key

Easy swimming is the key to staying away from pain. Tell Warren that this morning, I am sure he will understand what I mean. i am on my way to the Ridgway swim this Saturday morning. I started to record my shoulder p/t that I am doing on my own until surgery. I was at the Y yesterday to do that. It went well until I cooled off a bit and then tried some 15lb dumbell curls and presses with oncoming pain, so I ended the session. I rowed 15 minutes for the warm up, about 3100m.
I did take a few days out of the pool on Tuesday and Wednesday, but I got back in Thursday morning at Finley and swam easy, easy for about 1500 yards and then I went to the JCC and swam with Charlotte(new nickname-Charmine, get it, lol?) and the JCC Masters group. She told me onte thing about breathing, and when I got to Ridgway Friday, Dave pointed out that the correction looked out of sorts, that I was breathing late, which is how I corrected the problem that Charmine told me about. Huh? No yard totals, although it seemed like about 3500 total on Thursday and 2000 on Friday. I probably will not keep accurate yardage this morning either. Have a nice swim, and I hope to see you at the pool soon.

I understand that an old classmate of mine, Janet Riggs, coaches at Park Terrace and has done so for many seasons. Another classmate, Martha M. emialed me recently as my high school class is getting together for a reunion in late September and I have received some com from a few people.

Just Swim

I am not real happy with myself. My shoulder is messed up. It really bothered me throughout the night and I do not see any reason to swim today. I guess I need to give it another rest. I am also a bit down emotionally because of the shoulder injury. I can not do too much and after I get it fixed, I will probably do even less, until rehabilitation starts. I looked forward to getting my sciatica fixed and rehab went very good, but this time I am in a different frame of mind. It really does not matter how or when I injured my shoulder, what matters is that it gets repaired and I have as successful and rapid rehabilitation as I had with my back.
I have only been doing some light, uninspired lap swimming. My shoulder came down hard on Friday, I think I jumped and I led with my shoulder. EXtra painful, and it has been painful to do most everything. I did swim on Saturday, there were only about 4 other people and yesterday I just swam laps, about 100 of them.

Shocker

What is shocking is that a world class masters swimmer, Ken Shilling, at the Stanford Masters workout had a HEART ATTACK during workout. Teammate/bystander CPR and 5 stents later, Ken is doing good, with no apparent damage to his heart. This information was recently posted on the PMS newsletter. I am so happy that the Santa Rosa pools finally have the AED machines. I don't see them, but Loretta told me that they are here. Remember that a water polo guy died after leaving Finley water polo practice a few months ago. I will be relieved when I see the machines t the Santa Rosa pools. I am going to check at the Petaluma Swim Center as that facility is now managed by Forevers Aquatics. I made it to Finley for the door opening this morning and I shared a lane with Emmy Cozine.
1500 free
500 kick on back with fins
500 fist swim
100 ez
500 cruise 7:12
100 ez
3200 yards

Quick, Not Quick Enough

I went to Finley and I tried to get there at 0600 but did not get into the water until after 0615, although I did get half a lane, in the shallow end.
1000 free/back
500 free
500 kick on back with fins
250 free 10x25 on 30 sec
200 free ez
2700 yards

I rowed for 15 minutes, with a 2000 meter time of 8:15, a pr

Sunday Swimming

There were a bunch of SRM swimmers that swam at Lake Berryessa yesterday. Mike, Dave, and Warren were there as well as being at Ridgway this morning. I got in a 500 yard warm up before we decided to listen to Warren make up one of his workouts. He took it easy on us, considering he swam at the lake yesterday.

500 warm up
4x200 back/free for me

6x300 oreo

2x 100 free/100kick/100free
2x 300 breast
2x 300 back/free
3100 yards