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Posted on February 24, 2007 by jt

My goggles broke while I was swimming today. I was in the middle of seeing if I could swim a full mile without stopping. I wasn’t really keeping track of how far I had gone, but I was keeping track of how far ahead of the guy next to me I was. I was a full 100 yards ahead of him (I’m guessing I had gone about 600 yards to his 500 yards). I decided to kick a couple hundred before going back to regular swimming. I kicked a 200 and went to put my goggles back over my eyes when the elastic snapped. I guess I could have kicked some more, but I lost my morale after that.

To make matters worse, when I went to get a drink, a maintenance worker stepped out of the boiler room and told everyone to get out of the hot tub. I asked him a few questions about what was wrong. Apparently the chemical detection and supply pieces of the mechanism broke a while back and the pool company sent him the wrong parts, so now the chemical mixture in the hot tub was dangerous. He drained it as fast as possible. I surmised that it must mean a lack of chemicals and an overabundance of bacteria. If the chlorine levels were too high, they could just dilute it, but with the chlorine too low, the bugs come in. Maybe I’m wrong, but I was certainly glad I hadn’t stepped into the hot tub.

Swim:
200 Free warm-up
600 Free continuous
200 Kick
————
1000 yards

Quick Swim 20070221

Posted on February 21, 2007 by jt

Martin moved our staff meeting to 11:00, so I warned Travis that I probably wouldn’t be done by 12:00. I was right. At 12:00 Joey walked by the conference room on his way to the gym. We didn’t get out of the meeting for another 35 minutes. This left only enough time for a quick swim.

Swim:
500 Free warm-up
6 x 100 Free @ 2:05 (coming in under 1:15)
100 Free easy
————
1200 yards

Chest 20070220

Posted on February 20, 2007 by jt

It’s been more than a week since I’ve lifted weights. Travis went to be with his wife as she had some teeth pulled today, so it was shaping up to be another swim day (or skip it till after work). But then Joey said he wanted to lift. My excuses were gone. It’s probably a good thing, too, because I’m getting pretty weak.

Weight: 247.2

Flat Bench:
185/16 – 185/4 245/3 – 225/5 225/10

Incline Bench:
155/20 185/10 225/5

Incline Fly:
50/20 70/10 80/5

Bar Dip:
-80/12 -50/9 0/6

Swimming 20070219

Posted on February 19, 2007 by jt

Josh talked me and Lin into going to lunch instead of working out, so I figured I better hit the pool before I went home. I was surprised at how busy the gym was at 10:00 at night. While I swam about 15 guys came and went from the hot tub, sauna, and steam room.

Swimming:
300 Free warm-up
200 Kick
5 x 100 Free @ 2:05 (coming in under 1:15)
100 Free easy
200 Kick
200 Free
100 Kick
100 Free
———
1700 yards

Night Swimming 20070215

Posted on February 15, 2007 by jt

I worked through the night last night. Well, I actually got home around 5:50am and slept for a good 90 minutes before getting up to shower and shave for work today. We had an important meeting today and we did whatever it took to get things ready for it. The meeting went well. I wanted to go straight home and sleep for 20 hours, but Charmaine and I have a class together on Wednesday nights, so I couldn’t go home. I decided the best way to stay awake (and stop working) was to hit the pool. I’m finally feeling better from whatever I’ve had for the past week, so I pushed myself pretty hard.

Swim:
500 Free warm-up
50 Free
100 Free
150 Free
200 Free
250 Free
250 Kick
3 x (200 Free, 100 Kick)
4 x 50 Free
200 Free warm-down
————
2800 yards

Back in the tank

Posted on February 13, 2007 by jt

Well, I have plenty of excuses for not working out or swimming last week. The best one is that I was sick. I’m still having a tough time breathing, but it’s not enough to stop me from hitting the gym anymore. Charmaine came by my work around 6:30 and we headed to the gym for a swim.

Swim:
300 Free warm-up
200 Free
100 Kick
200 Free
100 Kick
5 x 100 Free @ 2:05 (coming in under 1:15)
100 Free easy
2 x 100 Kick
200 Free easy
————
1900 yards

Two for Tuesday 20070206

Posted on February 6, 2007 by jt

Even though I already had a pretty good swim at lunch (which is highly unusual for me on a Tuesday), I decided to take a break from work and hit the pool again tonight. Joey has been working on a really big change to some core pieces of our server and had to take a break around 6:00 to go to dinner. I knew he would be back to keep working on finding and fixing any problems left in the changes he made. That gave me the window to hit the pool. I called Charmaine and she came down and swam a bit too.

Swim:
500 Free warm-up
5 x 100 Free @ unknown (gold’s gym broken clock syndrome)
200 Kick
2 x (2 x 100 Free, 100 Kick)
200 Free warm-down
————
2000 yards

Tuesday Swim 20070206

Posted on February 6, 2007 by jt

Travis left work early today and asked that we do legs tomorrow. When lunchtime rolled around, Joey was nowhere to be found, so I headed over for an unusual Tuesday lunch swim. I had to be fairly fast, because I have a one-on-one with Martin at 1:30 on Tuesdays and I didn’t leave work till almost 12:30.

Swim:
500 Free warm-up
500 Free
5 x 100 Free @ unknown (yes, the clock is broken AGAIN)
250 Kick
250 Free warm-down
————
2000 yards

Family Swim Evening 20070205

Posted on February 5, 2007 by jt

I know I won’t be able to lift during lunch tomorrow, so I thought I’d get some extra exercise in tonight. Charmaine met me at the gym, but decided to hit the treadmill while I swam.

It was sort of crowded when I got in around 7:40. Not long after I started swimming, I was forced to share my lane. Luckily, the girl that got in my lane could swim very well. That only lasted for about 300 yards until the boyfriend-girlfriend combination got out and left me the center lane.

Swim:
400 Free warm-up
8 x 100 Free @ 2:15 (coming in @ 1:15)
100 Free easy
8 x 50 Kick @ 1:30 (coming in @ 0:50)
100 Free easy
200 Free warm-down
————
2000 yards

Chest 20070205

Posted on February 5, 2007 by jt

I didn’t realize exactly how much I had used my shoulders during the cross-country skiing until I got under some weight on the flat bench today. It’s Joey and Lyndsey’s anniversary today, so he had to leave work a bit early for a “couples massage.” That meant that he worked until he left around 1:00. Travis and I worked until he left as well, then we headed to the gym where we ran into Kyle.

Weight: 246.8

Flat Bench:
185/20 225/10 245/5 — I need to go up next week

Incline Bench:
165/19(+1) 185/10 225/4(+1)

Incline Dumbbell Fly:
55/20 70/10 85/4(+1)

Bar Dip:
2 — total failure

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