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Originally Posted by orthodoc
You go, monster! What an inspiration.
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I know this is your thread, I'm just slipstreaming here, being pulled along by your inspiring efforts. It's true.
I also like being able to understand swim lingo, and posting stuff that is understood (well... I guy can dream, can't he?) Anyhow, you *are* an inspiration to me and I thank you for that. Your progress is impressive.
Back to slipstreaming... I went to the Y and swam the other night and I thought of you as I was slogging through the water. I did four sets of four hundreds on a 2:30 basis, with an extra minute or so between the sets. That's 1600 yards, then for the last two hundred, I did four fifties on a minute and a half. The hundreds ranged from 1:43 at the start to 1:58 at the end. I was very tired plus, no goggles meant that I missed several turns. Some of them I flipped and missed the wall entirely... floooaaaated back touched with my toes and then chug chug chug back down the pool. I'll remember the goggles next time.
I finished the whole mile (1800 yard) workout in under fifty minutes!! 49:52!
Afterward, I did some walking and swimming against the current in the other pool, then the hot tub, then the sauna (wooo that was hot) then the steam room. Holymoly. Some punk kept pouring cool water on the sensor in the steam room and triggering a full steam ahead response by the steam generator. Woah, I could only take about five minutes in there. I crawled out, took a cold shower and poured myself into the car. Cardio Trainer says 1097 calories burned by the workout. I felt every one of them that night.
Keep up the good work MONSTER!