06-26-2025 Run/Swim

Slept in (a little bit) and got up around 6:00. I rushed to get ready for a run and then rode my scooter down to the park. Ran 6 full laps around the park and a little bit more to try and get past 10k. I was able to maintain negative splits throughout, although the middle miles were only slightly faster than the previous ones. Pushed harder on the last mile, which was my fastest by a fair amount. Legs felt fine, feet were a little sore afterward. I tracked the run on my phone via Strava as well as with my Amazfit watch. The watch recorded a little less distance and a significantly higher heartrate. I think I trust the Coospo heartrate band numbers more.

Avg pace = 7:48/mi

Total distance = 6.35 mi

Elapsed moving time = 49:31

Avg heartrate = 133 bpm (Coospo), 151 bpm (Amazfit)

https://www.strava.com/activities/14923206581

After the run, I rushed home and got ready for a swim (Ann was still asleep). Then I rode over to the WWC, where several others joined me in waiting for it to open, including one swimmer, Shannon, who asked me about my recent triathlon, which was nice of her. I was disappointed in my swim time, which was slower than I hoped it would be. Granted, I was intentionally swimming at a slower pace with longer strokes, but I thought the dropoff wouldn't be as much. Ended up swimming 1950 yds, my longest distance in a while, must have lost count of laps at some point so I didn't get to 2000 yds. Here are the splits (taken from video footage) for my 3 500s and the last 450: 10:00, 10:05, 10:13, 8:58.  Was a minor good sign that my last 450 wasn't the slowest of all. The data from my Amazfit pool workout are not quite as accurate as the video data, but maybe they are accurate enough when I'm doing longer swims without breaks. Again, I don't trust the Amazfit heartrate data, might try to tighten my watchband and see if that helps. Will try some intervals tomorrow at a faster pace. I rode home, had some breakfast (was pretty hungry) and took a shower before riding over to the HP site for coffee with Brooke and Gary. Nice conversation, Brooke has done a lot of cruising, including a cool cruise through the Grecian Isles that might be a future possibility. Sue had an arthroscopic procedure done on her back on Tuesday to relieve the pain in her legs. So far, pain has subsided, now she has to wait until her back pain from the surgery starts to lessen. Got home and relaxed for a while. I ordered Padres tickets, refunded some more ey to Johnnie using Venmo, inquired about returning the Tapo cameras that I ought (thinking they were battery-powered), and scoped out some possible places to have lunch with Charlie on Friday. In the afternoon, I watched some TV after eating a leftover calzone for lunch. Then I went over the backyard fence and chopped at one of the sumac stumps using the new chainsaw blade. It is much sharper, and the sww works great with a sharp chain. I also hacked at the stumps with the axes and the reciprocating saw. That is not such easy work, but I made some progress before stopping for the day. It was a quiet rest of the afternoon. After dinner, we drove through crappy traffic over to Emily and Caleb's to feed the cats, then it was a quiet evening.