Project Valkyrie: waterlog
Jul. 23rd, 2010 01:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
truepennyLAPS: 34
YARDS: 1700
MILES: 0.97
TOTAL MILES: 282.76
MILES LEFT TO RIVENDELL: 175.24
NOTES: (1) When one is walking into the locker room at the pool is a sub-optimal time for a hair elastic to break.
(2) Still can't do a kick-turn to save my proverbial life.
(3) I seem to have left my swimming cap in the locker room. Botheration.
Today I managed a total of ten continuous laps of freestyle (6 in the middle and four at the end), by which I mean laps of freestyle without having to hang on the side of the pool and pant at the end of every lap. Mostly this seems to be a matter of forcing myself to SLOW DOWN. I am not built to be a sprinter by either land or water. So all those laps with the pull-buoy helped me get a metronome going, which I then managed to carry through, as I said, 6 and 4 continuous laps. By the end of the sixth lap I was getting pretty disorganized, so it was back to the pull-buoy and the metronome. And by the end of the fourth lap, it was time to go home. *g*
I realize this doesn't look like much, but from in here it feels like a real achievement.
YARDS: 1700
MILES: 0.97
TOTAL MILES: 282.76
MILES LEFT TO RIVENDELL: 175.24
NOTES: (1) When one is walking into the locker room at the pool is a sub-optimal time for a hair elastic to break.
(2) Still can't do a kick-turn to save my proverbial life.
(3) I seem to have left my swimming cap in the locker room. Botheration.
Today I managed a total of ten continuous laps of freestyle (6 in the middle and four at the end), by which I mean laps of freestyle without having to hang on the side of the pool and pant at the end of every lap. Mostly this seems to be a matter of forcing myself to SLOW DOWN. I am not built to be a sprinter by either land or water. So all those laps with the pull-buoy helped me get a metronome going, which I then managed to carry through, as I said, 6 and 4 continuous laps. By the end of the sixth lap I was getting pretty disorganized, so it was back to the pull-buoy and the metronome. And by the end of the fourth lap, it was time to go home. *g*
I realize this doesn't look like much, but from in here it feels like a real achievement.
