It’s been so warm lately that I have been riding my scooter to work and tonight I rode it to practice. Charmaine’s brothers Rob and David are in town and they all went to Ogden to surf the standing wave. It was a little cold on my way to practice, but it wasn’t bad on the way back. I’ll probably ride it every time Charmaine misses practice (which isn’t often).

We finished up practice with a set of relays. It was a lot of fun, but it really took everything out of us. I guess that’s the whole point. We push ourselves harder when there’s a little friendly competition. I led our lane, followed by Sean, then Mark, then Sabrina, and Dagon brought it home. We each swam two 25s each race, so we had a slight break, but it wasn’t enough… especially by the third race. Our lane won the first race, but we got spanked on the next two. And for that, we don’t get treats next practice, but everyone in the other lane does. We’ll have to find a way to win next time. I don’t know how I’m going to beat Paul though. He is fast.

I split lane 3 with Paul. I could barely keep up, especially on the monster kicking, but somehow I managed to leave on time, every time. If that wasn’t enough, Sabrina and Chelsea were doing the same thing in lane 2, on the same interval, and both of them were killing me too. I guess my kick is really weak. I’m glad I have these guys to push me along.

Warm-Up (1000):
6 x 100 free/back (5 strokes free, 5 strokes back, repeat) on 0:10 seconds rest with fins
1 x 400 pull/scull (75 pull, 25 scull, repeat)

Main Set (1925):
12 x 50 monster kicking on 1:10 (last time my interval was 1:20, so this was a big step up for me)
12 x 100 drill/back (50 vertical ice, 50 full-stroke backstroke) on 1:40 with fins
1 x 125 easy

Relays (150):
2 x 25 free (5 people, each swimming 2 x 25 free)
2 x 25 free, back (1 x 25 free followed by 1 x 25 back)
2 x 25 corkscrew (this made everyone sick)