10-02-2025 Swim

Quite vivid dreams in the night, I ended up sleeping okay but with a stretch in the early morning where I read for a bit, got up and ate some cereal and a banana, then went back to sleep. Got ready for a swim at the WWC with Avi and rode over there. We initially had the pool to ourselves, others joined about halfway through our workout. He has been swimming and getting better, while I haven't, so he's faster than I am again. Here's the workout we did:

Warmup 250

    4:42

6 100s at tempo

    1:40

    1:47

    1:49

    1:51

    1:45

    1:39

3 100s with one-arm, other-arm, arm-catch, and regular strokes (pull buoy)

    2:09

    2:07

    2:10

2 25s with this weird paddling arm movement to improve the figure-8 stroke (pull buoy)

    1:10

    1:13

1 50 with only leg kicks (pull buoy)

    1:45

5 50s at high tempo

    0:46

    0:49

    0:50

    0:49

    0:47

Total distance of 1500 yds, total time 29:48. I think I benefited from the speed drills the most, although the arm-catch drill is also a good one to work on for me. Had a quiet rest of the morning, Ann went to the beach with Kay. I rode over to RB Sushi and had lunch with John, Vivian, Brooke, Steven, and Julio Rodriguez (who has a pet toucan that flies around inside their home, his wife works at the San Diego Zoo). In the early afternoon, I watched some TV, then went out into the back yard to do some weeding. Arranged the gravel on the path to hide the ground cloth, there weren't many weeds in the path. I cleared some out in the plant beds as well. Then I took a look at the sprinklers to see if there were problems. Had a leak in a sprinkler line in the bed by the sliding glass door that was fairly easy to repair, and I also replaced a sprinkler by the bird of paradise plant in the back bed. Everything else seemed to be working okay, although I increased the flow rate for the drip sprinklers in one of the beds. In the late afternoon, I called Mom and talked to her about medical alert systems. She seems onboard with the idea but not super excited about it. Will coordinate with Ross on which system to go with. After dinner, I watched a fair amount of the Thursday Night Football game, which was entertaining but heartbreaking if you are a Rams fan. Then it was reading and to sleep.