Yanti & Salty Mad Manatees PART 3: FULL POD (Page 70)

Okay, here it is--my big TV debut:

http://www.fox40.com/videogallery/71260619/News/Dr--Jyl-How-to-Train-Frogs#pl-62810999

I think I could have done better, but considering it was absolutely live, I can't fuss too much.

AAAAH I get re-directed to a City of Sac link where I have to have a username and password for MS Web App ...

Want to see Kate and froggies!

Yeah, me too...

Bummer woken up and my cold has taken a hold - throat is better replaced by stuffy head, bit of a temperature and a cough that hurts.....optimistically I'm taking my running gear to work - if I'm not well enough to run then I'm not well enough to work surely!  A bit too busy to take the day unfortunately...and if I stayed home I'd go for a ride and a run!

Anyway if my head clears I'll go for a run, if not I shall just walk 6km because fresh air always makes me feel better.

I need to do the drainer tonight but that's fine as it's indoors.  Damn this winter malarkey!

off on a tangent - I made up a great poem for spellings last night, Artemis very impressed, mummy youre so clever and funny!

In the elbow my left, I am left side dominant, stabing ache sort of?  Ugh.. yeah my logs suck right now just finding the mojo...  Nothing really on the extra work side

http://www.fox40.com/videogallery/71260619/News/Dr--Jyl-How-to-Train-Frogs#pl-62810999

try this one

VERY cool Kate! That's actually a pretty long segment. Nice work! 

(Thanks Kirk!)

It is (glacially slowly) loading for me and I can't wait to see it!

Just got this a few minutes ago.  Sprint distance swim workout idea on USAT website.  I'm not a big fan of a workout of mostly 25's and 50's but I trust the author know more than I.

http://www.usatriathlon.org/about-multisport/multisport-zone/multisport-lab/articles/sprint-swim-workouts-072412.aspx

I think my head would explode with glacially slow internet. I am really, really impatient. 

Not so much sprint distance swim workouts per se, but actual speed (fast or sprinting) workouts (for several purposes outlined in the article) appropriate for preparing athletes to go faster in sprint and international distance triathlons.

I'm not a big fan of 25/50s workouts either, but not because they don't work for the purposes stated. It's because they're HARD and they SUCK and they make me want to CRAP AND PUKE at the same time ... and I can swim long, easy sets all day at a pace that's perfectly acceptable for long-course triathlon or marathon swimming.

The bottom line is that to swim fast, you gotta swim fast. And in swimming, unlike running, you can do a whole lot of that a whole lot earlier.

I'm 50/50 on his argument that the main benefit for newer swimmers is identification and correction of stroke deficiencies. It works for some and not for others. Slapping a pair of fins on to make you go fast will serve the same purpose.

Asalzwed - 2012-07-25 5:12 AM Ha, so Yanti and I had been discussing "speed" and how it's a relative term (we also deemed wellness in this category, right Yanti ) but I was at a birthday party with some friends last night and a couple of the girls were swimmers in college and whatnot and they were talking about their times. HOLY  

Sometimes I sadly fondle my old swim medals (that my dear crazy mother actually had the foresight to save all in one place!) that had the event and time printed on a sticker or tag on the back.

Then I remember that puking/crapping feeling I described above and I feel so much better and happier.

Okay ... is it that your logging sucks and you've actually been swimming more than that, or that by longer/harder workouts you mean the one 40-ish minute workout you've done recently?

Oh yes, sprints hurt, if done at the right intensity.  Funny thing about me, we were doing sets of 200's, then 100's then 50's.  It was like a pyramid workout.  On the 200's I was coming in at around 3:00, then on 100's I was coming in at around 1:30, then at 0:45 on the 50's, my swim instructor said "Reece, you have one speed!"

It is best to spread peanut butter evenly

 Gasp. This has Yanti written all over it. You just had to drag this back into the gutter, didn't you. Or wait, did I just drag it down? No, it was you. 

Fuggin' hilarious. That's exactly what happened last week when I was doing an alternating sprint/easy set with the blond piglet, and we even went down to 25s.

Also, it's completely immaterial what strokes, intensity, paces, sets, rest intervals or combos of swim/pull/kick I do ... every single workout averages out to 2:00/100. (Doesn't even matter what length POOL I'm in ... 25yd, 25m, 50m! One time I was working out in a 30m pool, uneven stone/brick walls made flip turns impossible ... exact same result!)

Okay, maybe not if the workout were, say, 20x200 fly. But even I'm not crazy enough to do that.

Now what I want is to be able to do this working backwards. In all disciplines. I'd be a pretty happy camper if I could run a marathon at 5K pace or swim 3 miles at 25m pace.  Is that so much to ask?

Honey, we haven't even gotten to eating the peanut butter yet ...

For the fact that I am OCD about absolutely nothing (excepting my posts in Tri Talk), I will have a conniption fit if the peanut butter isn't spread evenly, right to the very corners and edges across the whole piece of bread.

Not at all. It just takes forever (and a lot of puke) to end up doing races in such a short period of time. How old are you, again?

As long as it's spread on nice and thick, I'm a happy camper. Bonus if it's crunchy. 

I love you. *sticky peanut butter {MELON PRESS}*

Well, as a matter of fact I think I will be running marathons at my current 5K pace. Maybe innn 3.5 years? But doesn't that make it my marathon pace? And what then will my 5K pace be? 

And how does this all translate into my swim pace, eh? What about that? 

Is it in poor taste to start a sentence with and? That's the question here!

CRUNCHY {MELON PRESS}