08-30-2024 Swim

Went for another swim at the WWC, after a nice waking up (<>). I got there around 8:20, and the pool was not crowded, so I had my own lane. Talked to Cathy's husband Eric, who was a Navy pilot and longtime motorcycle rider. He's a nice fellow, is 81 and looks in pretty good shape for his age. I did the standard 2000 yd protocol, slower than I had hoped to be able to complete it. Finished in about 41:30, and felt it in my shoulders. That's probably the effect of using the swim pads, which I should include more if I want to build up the power of my stroke. When I got home, I changed out the battery on the MyQ sensor unit, which had been reading Low Battery. Even with the new battery, the same warning message showed up, so I'll monitor it for now. I also did some troubleshooting on the little Bluetooth transmitter/receiver unit that I got awhile ago but hadn't been able to get it working. It shows up in Bluetooth as ZF-360, and to use it to connect to an external speaker you have to set it in RX mode with the switch and plug the cable going to the speaker in the RX port. Also, it will hold a charge but has to be charged up before it will work. I got it to play from Spotify on my phone, so, success! Ann and I went to lunch at Lutchi and Mary, which was celebrating its anniversary (according to Perse). Food was decent, not exactly to my taste but a nice vibe exists in the restaurant. For a significant part of the afternoon, I worked on code to create the database of ride statistics from analysis of my downloaded GPX ride files. I made good progress, to the point that I tried to run it on the entire set of GPX files, which caused the PC to crash hard. During the troubleshooting, I found that I need to account for GPX files that don't have any power or cadence data as well as those files that don't have embedded heartrate data. I think that's all fixed now. In the evening, we drove over to Rob's place, dropped off an inner tube he wanted to borrow, then drove over to CMR to see Just Press Play, the band that was closing out the summer concert series there. They were pretty good musicians, but the lead singer had an annoying squeak in his voice, particularly when he tried to sing in an upper register. After a while, it was comical, as was the guy in front of Ann who, every time he got up, flashed his butt crack. While there, I saw that I still needed a lot of steps to reach 10k, so I went for a walk starting about 8:25. Took me 50 minutes to get to 10k steps, I was ready to be done for the day after that.