August East-West Run/Jog/Wog/Walk Challenge! (Page 8)

Holy crap!! Goodluck with that!

Good job!! Next time you'll definitely go under 30!

Nothing sounds crazy about it, much closer to home and wouldn't be as cold as the English Channel, (I know I haven't given the notorious comment and unswimmable bit due respect) so I think you are much more sane than the 100s that attempt an English Channel crossing each year.  Sounds like a good swim

No one though the mile could be run in under 4 minutes either until someone did it, now look how the good runners look down their noses at you if you can't do it

You know that they invented the butterfly stroke to clear all kids and other persons out of your lane don't you?

Can't help with the swimming music player, don't think I could handle swimming with one.  Can I lend you a few of the voices in my head to help you past the time?

Well, I didn't quite get the run miles I planned to today, rode the bike to the 5k so I factored that into the warm up and blew off the cool down since I would be riding home.

Was about 36 seconds slower than when I ran this race last (2008) but I don't have the miles or speed work this year.  But that was my "adult" 5k PR.  First two miles was encouraging, but didn't realize I slowed so much the last 1.1

How much work can I do and benefit from in the next 2 1/2 weeks?

Haha, I thought I was the only one...  Me, myself and I can "talk out" a lot of problems in a good swim. 

Sheeeesss BACK!!

Good job. I tried a MP3 player that a friend had. It wouldn't stay on my head. (Evidently I have a little pin head, Hmph). she loves it thought. She does yanti-like swims in a pool so it keeps her from going crazy!

ditto.

YAAAAAAAAAAAY I am *VERY* proud of you ... happy joy joy melons bounce and congratulatory {MELON PRESS}!

Swimming's hard. I don't care who you are. And swimming harder is REALLY hard.

Next time, just throw a big butterfly kick in there when there's a kid nearby.

Thank you Joe I am really looking forward to the BT 'reunion' in March

Seriously, that's why I won't swim the Channel. It's furkin' cold, and that's on a good day. Plus, I can't afford to swim the Channel. Oh, and *everybody* does that (yaaawn ... ha ha ha)

I know this is going to sound really weird, but ...

I've actually been running a bit lately.

I'm almost not dragging the whole East side down anymore!

D001 - 2011-08-12 1:46 AM

cottoneyes - 2011-08-11 12:04 AM

owl_girl - 2011-08-11 6:19 AM I know this isn't running related but Yanti-fish would be proud of me!  I've been trying really hard to get my mile swim (1650 yards) below 30 minutes.  I almost did it today!  I was at 30:06!  I would have been less than 30 minutes except my stupid watch was running fast I had to keep throwing kids camp stuff (and children) out of my lane!  Swimming is not my thing.  I'm really proud of myself!  I need some music if I'm going to swim longer.  Does anyone have a swimming music player?  Do you like it?

You know that they invented the butterfly stroke to clear all kids and other persons out of your lane don't you?

Can't help with the swimming music player, don't think I could handle swimming with one.  Can I lend you a few of the voices in my head to help you past the time?

I *HEART* butterfly! Too bad I can't swim much of it.

Me neither (right now), although I always incorporate a little into each of my swims. I think watching Darren Petherick swim the butterfly is one of the most exquisite things I've ever seen in my life.

But a well-aimed fly kick is *priceless*.

*wail* but waiiiiiit, you updated before I updated the spreadsheet!

LOL. It would add, like, single percentages to my total anyway.

But I'm building up my running this month ... no, really ... so the second half should be a lot better than the first. Yes! That's it! Fo sho!