07-26-2024 Swim

Woke up and rode over to the WWC for a morning swim workout with Avi. After a 10 length warmup, we tried several different exercises, one of them being faster 100s where we shortened the recovery time by 5 seconds after each one. It was pretty exhausting at the end. Then I worked on lengthening my stroke by only using one arm at a time, am getting a little better at this exercise. I finished up with another 10 lengths and called it 1500 yds swum. When I got home, after eating I went out behind the fence and chopped back three of the plants there, which is always a little challenging. Some rest after that, until I went for a 50 minute walk around 11:15, when the temperature was in the mid-90s. It was somewhat draining. The early afternoon was quiet, then Ann and I drove down to the San Diego Mission, leaving home around 2:20. Our intention was to avoid traffic for the evening concert we were going to, and the first part was mostly successful. The walk through the Mission grounds was mildly interesting, the museum there was fairly modest, but it was an entertaining little excursion. After that, we drove to Kensington and had dinner, using my old Groupon, at Ponce's. The service there was pretty good, and the three Happy Hour veggie tacos I had were delicious. We then drove into Normal Heights, parked, and walked to the Triple Crown Pub, where we had drinks and played a couple of games of pool and shuffleboard. It was a little unusual for us, but we still had fun. We walked back to the car and then drove over by the Fenton Pkwy trolley stop. I dropped Ann off at the stop, then went on a frustrating search for a parking spot on the street. Eventually, after a fair amount of looking, I found one a little less than a mile from the stop. Time was ticking, so I ran most of the way from where I parked to the trolley stop. When I got there, the sign indicated it would be another half hour before the next train arrived, which was a little disappointing. But we ended up not having to wait that long, so we got to the SDSU station with time to spare to get to the Cal Coast CU Amphitheater and to our seats before the concert started. Celisse was the opening act, we had seen her open for Jason Mraz up in Irvine. Her music is not my cup of tea, so we probably could have missed it and not been too sad. The Lake Street Dive set was much better. They played most of the songs from their latest album as well as their notable songs from the last 10 years or so. Here's the setlist from the concert.

After the encore, it was a little slow getting out of the amphitheater, but surprisingly we didn't run into many crowds on the trolley, and one was rolling into the station just as we got there. So that worked out well. Drove home, got there before midnight.