Monday - No swim.....
Instead I did weights and rode the bike 30
Tuesday-Today swim was
1000m warm up
20 X 100 on 1:40 with 30second rest
10 X 100 ......breast 1st 25m, and 3rd 25m freestyle hard 2nd 25m and 4th 25m in 2min, 15-30second rest between
Warm down...
Then Springboard diving 20min dryed off and changed into running gear.
Ran treadmill 15min and did some weights
Then went to work.
:)
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Sunday, February 10, 2013
This weeks Swim total
Feb 4 - Feb 10
Monday.........3000m
Tuesday.........2000m
Wednesday....4000m
Thursday........2000m
Friday.............1000m
Saturday.........3000m
Sunday...........3000m
Total for this week....
18,000m or 18km. :)
And I'm feeling good!
:)
Monday.........3000m
Tuesday.........2000m
Wednesday....4000m
Thursday........2000m
Friday.............1000m
Saturday.........3000m
Sunday...........3000m
Total for this week....
18,000m or 18km. :)
And I'm feeling good!
:)
Friday, February 8, 2013
Snow day and rest
It was a dark and stomy day......lol
Snowmageddon!! first major snow storm in about 3 years dropping around 2.5 feet or more of snow. Needless to say I took a snow day off work as there is no way i could drive in this mess specially when i have a 90k commute!
After snow-blowing my driveway I went to the pool, which was no easy feet driving with the heavy snow covered roads. I only swam 1000m recovery swim as my arms are still tired from yesterdays workout. But I must say my swim was smooth and effortless!
I barely got home, almost getting stuck only 100m from my driveway, but with patients and backing up and forward I finally got to the safe haven of my plowed driveway which needed to be snow-blown again.....
Then the city snow-plough came by, plowing a massive amount of snow banks in front of all the drives-ways, except mine! lol.
As I stood there with my snow-blower idling, waiting for him to plough our court, he was kind enough to push the snow away from my drive-way and into the middle of the court, as my house is the last house in the court if you drive counter clockwise, and normally if he were to plow around I would get the brunt of the snow banks pushed into my drive-way.
Then he proceeded to plough in all my neighbours driveway's with 4 foot snow banks! lol. I waved to him thanking him and he waved me back! .....What a nice driver! :)
The third time I went out to snow-blow, I saw neighbours shoveling, and there is alot of snow!! so I took my snow-blower over and helped them out, I ended up clearing five neighbours driveway's, because that's the way I am! ;)
Kaiya is enjoying the snow!
Here is the Barrie CTV coverage of the Winterfest polar bear dip from last Sunday as promised....
Barrie Winterfest CTV coverage of Polar dip
:)
Snowmageddon!! first major snow storm in about 3 years dropping around 2.5 feet or more of snow. Needless to say I took a snow day off work as there is no way i could drive in this mess specially when i have a 90k commute!
After snow-blowing my driveway I went to the pool, which was no easy feet driving with the heavy snow covered roads. I only swam 1000m recovery swim as my arms are still tired from yesterdays workout. But I must say my swim was smooth and effortless!
I barely got home, almost getting stuck only 100m from my driveway, but with patients and backing up and forward I finally got to the safe haven of my plowed driveway which needed to be snow-blown again.....
Then the city snow-plough came by, plowing a massive amount of snow banks in front of all the drives-ways, except mine! lol.
As I stood there with my snow-blower idling, waiting for him to plough our court, he was kind enough to push the snow away from my drive-way and into the middle of the court, as my house is the last house in the court if you drive counter clockwise, and normally if he were to plow around I would get the brunt of the snow banks pushed into my drive-way.
Then he proceeded to plough in all my neighbours driveway's with 4 foot snow banks! lol. I waved to him thanking him and he waved me back! .....What a nice driver! :)
The third time I went out to snow-blow, I saw neighbours shoveling, and there is alot of snow!! so I took my snow-blower over and helped them out, I ended up clearing five neighbours driveway's, because that's the way I am! ;)
Kaiya is enjoying the snow!
Here is the Barrie CTV coverage of the Winterfest polar bear dip from last Sunday as promised....
Barrie Winterfest CTV coverage of Polar dip
:)
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Holly workout today
Wednesday pool swim 4000m
Today, 1000m straight in 15:30min .... There was another guy in the lane I was trying to keep up with, which helped me get a new PB for my 1000m
Then I did 10 X 100m on 1:50 with 20 seconds rest between for a total of 2000m today.
I had some fun diving for 20min after that, dried off and went up to the gym for a 15min treadmill run and some weights.
:)
Today, 1000m straight in 15:30min .... There was another guy in the lane I was trying to keep up with, which helped me get a new PB for my 1000m
Then I did 10 X 100m on 1:50 with 20 seconds rest between for a total of 2000m today.
I had some fun diving for 20min after that, dried off and went up to the gym for a 15min treadmill run and some weights.
:)
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Super Bowl Weekend
I didn't get much swimming in but did manage to go for a lake swim at the Annual Barrie Winterfest Polar bear dip. I wasn't first this time, a couple of young girls beat me to the front of the line and I came out an hour early! lol
Well there was Ice! I was really surprised as there was open water only 5 day earlier, but it wasn't strong enough to let people on being only 2-3 inches, The firemen cut a large hole and people were only allowed to go in a couple at a time as spectators watched from shore..... It turns out there were over 180 people who took the plunge.
I also got on the CTV Barrie news with them interviewing me and mentioning that I'm doing the Lake-O swim as they showed me jumping in doing a double twist into the chilly water! I'll post that up later when I get time.
In the mean time, here is my own video of me going in on You tube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC1MB_SN_ig
And I of course watched all the Superbowl shows and game afterwards to finish off my Sunday. :)
Today's workout
3000m swim.
20min diving.
30min weights.
:)
Well there was Ice! I was really surprised as there was open water only 5 day earlier, but it wasn't strong enough to let people on being only 2-3 inches, The firemen cut a large hole and people were only allowed to go in a couple at a time as spectators watched from shore..... It turns out there were over 180 people who took the plunge.
I also got on the CTV Barrie news with them interviewing me and mentioning that I'm doing the Lake-O swim as they showed me jumping in doing a double twist into the chilly water! I'll post that up later when I get time.
In the mean time, here is my own video of me going in on You tube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC1MB_SN_ig
And I of course watched all the Superbowl shows and game afterwards to finish off my Sunday. :)
Today's workout
3000m swim.
20min diving.
30min weights.
:)
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Day 27
So much for my swim today!
I forgot there is a swim meet going on at my pool this weekend and so?... I shall not swim this weekend.
That said, Tomorrow is the Barrie Winter-fest Polar bear swim at Centennial beach and as usual for over 10 years now. I will again be the first one to jump in as I have done over the past 4-5 years and hopefully get on CTV news again and maybe get another plug in for my Lake Ontario swim?
Last year I went in first with Jennifer Robinson (Five time Canadian figure skating Champion) as I let her in line with me being the celebrity she is, as I was first in line to go in and I over heard her talking to the man in charge (Brad McConnel; who is on my team for my Lake Ontario swim) and she wanted to go first, so I waved her over to go with me being the nice guy I am.
This is a pic of last year. I'm in the water at the bottom right watching as Jennifer twists.
As it stands, I don't know if we will be going in the water from the ice this year ? Normally they cut a hole in the ice for us to jump in, but as we still had open water as of last Tuesday because of this mild winter, then a cold snap since, the lake only had a thin layer of ice, so they might have to break up a path of the thin ice to clear the area for a run in and dunk, which will be a first for this event? Is this a result of Global warming? Either way the water is still DAMN COLD!! lol I'll have a full report of the Polar bear dip tomorrow.
In the mean time,..... Today's training was biking for 30 min and weights.
:)
I forgot there is a swim meet going on at my pool this weekend and so?... I shall not swim this weekend.
That said, Tomorrow is the Barrie Winter-fest Polar bear swim at Centennial beach and as usual for over 10 years now. I will again be the first one to jump in as I have done over the past 4-5 years and hopefully get on CTV news again and maybe get another plug in for my Lake Ontario swim?
Last year I went in first with Jennifer Robinson (Five time Canadian figure skating Champion) as I let her in line with me being the celebrity she is, as I was first in line to go in and I over heard her talking to the man in charge (Brad McConnel; who is on my team for my Lake Ontario swim) and she wanted to go first, so I waved her over to go with me being the nice guy I am.
This is a pic of last year. I'm in the water at the bottom right watching as Jennifer twists.
In the mean time,..... Today's training was biking for 30 min and weights.
:)
Friday, February 1, 2013
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