My friend Jack got smacked by a minivan last night at Commercial and Broadway. I spent the whole night with him in the hospital, until we got him home at 6am this morning.
We were on our way back from the naked swim at Templeton pool near Adanac and Victoria Drive. As we rode [...]
Swimming’s getting easier by the day. Mark didn’t show today, so i just started swimming. I didn’t do anything yesterday because my arm felt a bit weird after doing some hard breast-stroke on tuesday. Today i did about 900m and felt pretty good. I was concentrating on trying to do more [...]
had a good swim today. I’m still really enjoying it. I got there before mark and just started going. We tried skulling for a bit…no body movement except for waving your hands back and forth for propulsion. that worked the arms ;). My breathing felt easier today…i didn’t have to [...]
hit the pool today. It feels great. i can’t believe i haven’t been doing this before. I did about 1km of swimming today, doing various drills. mark did about 1km before i got there ;)
today we did some more arms-only swimming with the floaty peanut-shaped thing between the knees. I [...]
Just went for run #2 and i feel great. I had a short jog on thursday night when i forgot to take my bike with me when i went downtown. When i came back to Ladner at about midnight on the bus, i realized i had no bike to get me home from [...]
More swimming today. Mark is gonna push me hard. Today he revealed that we’re gonna swim and hit the gym 4x per week. ugh. it’s gonna be good tho ;) We did probably 1000m today. my pecs were still feeling a bit tired from the weights i did yesterday, [...]
today was my first time swimming in many years…at least for any decent distance. paddling around casually in a warm lake in summertime doesn’t really count. I went with my friend Mark, who’s a former swim coach. Mark’s lookin to get back into a regular exercise routine, so it’s a good combo. [...]
ok, so my legs felt kinda stiff today from the running yesterday. i’m discovering that running is much different than cycling, despite the bit of crossover. different ways to use some of the same muscles, i guess.
since i was still feeling it from the running, i decided to go for a bike ride [...]
seems like running isn’t as hard as it’s cracked up to be. I just had a pleasant run down to the marina and back, plus an extra little bit because i felt good. Took me about 20 minutes, and then i got on my bike and rode it to measure the distance: [...]
k, i might have been an anti-running bigot for a while, but i’m gonna go for a jog tomorrow morning. I’m starting to see this squamish triathlon thing as something feasible, but i need to get working on my fitness level. I’ve got plenty of people around who can give me training tips [...]