07-29-2024 Swim

I had slept for most of the night in the other bed, Ann was restless and she had put some strong-smelling cream on. Had a nice interlude after we woke up (<>), then I rode over to the WWC and swam 2000 yds following the normal protocol. At times, I felt fairly strong, although I was more tired at the end, and I didn't have consistently good control of my breathing while wearing the swim snorkel. I had borrowed Avi's spare pair of goggles, and they appeared to seal water from my eyes better. Finished in just over 38 minutes, which was close to my best time for this distance. Then I swam another 10 lengths with the pull buoy, focusing on lengthening my stroke and twisting my lower back to enable a longer forward reach. As soon as I got home, I went out into the back yard and chopped back two more of the bushes behind the fence (several more to go, after we get more space in the yard clippings bin). I then used the saw to cut out several little palm trees that were growing in the bed closest to the house. It was easier than I thought it would be. I also reinstalled the drip sprinkler that Ann had accidentally pulled out. Finally, I started tackling the large branches on the lavender bushes that Ann had trimmed around. There is still some more work to do there along with a lot of chopping to fit the trimmings into the yard bins, once we have some space. It was a quiet afternoon for me. I tried (unsuccessfully, it turns out) to repair the tube that flatted on Saturday's ride. I also spent a fair amount of time coding, cleaning up the code for identifying defined segments (mostly they will be from Strava) and also adding in code to read in a CSV file that will contain the segment data. It will be fairly laborious to define the Strava segments, since I haven't been able to locate the data themselves in a machine-readable format. Ann and I also watched the first episode of Baby Reindeer, which is indeed a dark comedy. In the evening, after dinner, I went for a 2-mile walk to get my steps in, then I watched the first half of Deadpool 2.