Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!

Today's workout:
Swim-90 minutes

I'm so glad I'm keeping a blog. If I weren't keeping a blog, I'd have to start tonight, just to share my experience of tonight's swim. Oh boy, where to start.

I'll start with the funniest thing I've heard throughout this entire training. I was laughing so hard I almost couldn't swim.  Let me set the stage.

I was doing the drills, trying not to drink too much of the pool water. I was going about my usual snail pace. Nothing special. Same old same old. Well, I stopped for a drink after about 15-20 laps. There was a gentleman in the lane next to me who was taking a break. Here was the conversation from the beginning:




Him-"Oh, so you're not a machine!"
Me-"What do you mean?"
Him-"I keep having to stop to catch my breath, but you just keep going and going and going. You haven't stopped the whole time I've been here."
Me-"You must be kidding me-I'm a horrible swimmer! I'm just training for a ridiculously long race and I guess my breathing is pretty good."
Him-"Well, it looks like you know what you're doing-I'm trying to get some tips for technique from you. I'm going to take my scuba diver instructor lesson next month and there's a swimming section."
Me-(I could barely stop from laughing out loud right in his face.) "Oh, these drills? It's something that my friend put together for me. It's supposed to help isolate your arms and legs to make them stronger."
Him-Well, it seems like they're working-you're doing really good."
Me-(Biting my lip so I don't laugh out loud again) Oh, well, thanks.


And then I had to swim away. I was laughing so hard under the water-I couldn't breathe correctly because I was focused on not laughing out loud! What a joke! Imagine, somebody getting swimming tips from me!!!  It was hysterical!!!!  Mary the Snail Swim Coach!!!!!  Hahahahahahahaha!!!

It was an interesting swim also, because I was sharing my lane with one of the characters from last week's blog. The young gentleman who was there with his mom. Well it appears that the young man has  some spectrum of autism. He was certainly enjoying his time in the pool, doing handstands, jumping up and down in the shallow end causing all kinds of waves, splashing the water out of the pool and then drawing in it with his finger, doing some kind of yoga under the water half-way down the lane, and trying out all kinds of swim strokes. He had tons of energy. He was in there with me for the entire first hour of my swim! I was trying to do my best to avoid him, but he still ended up kicking me pretty hard in the side at one point. I'm ok though. I had to adjust my laps because he would occasionally be at one end dancing and jumping around. So I would just cut the lap short and turn around without pushing off the wall. It was good practice for the craziness that I can expect in the swim portion of the Ironman race!

The pool was packed tonight. There was a constant line for a lane. I wasn't about to get out. Especially when there were two more characters in the lane next to me. There was one guy and one girl. I don't think they knew each other.

The guy would swim a lap and then stop at the end for a break. He'd prop his elbows on the side of the pool with his hands hanging at his chest level. And then, he'd play with his nipples. Yup, play with his nipples. Oh yea, he would twirl them around, flick them, pinch them....I don't even think he realized he was doing it.  Then he'd swim another lap and then play with his nipples again. Another lap, more nipple play. It was so disturbing. I'm telling ya, I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried.

Then there was the girl that was in the lane with Nipple Man. She'd swim a couple laps, before she'd stop at the same end as Nipple Man, and start playing with her earlobe. A couple laps, more earlobe action. I'm not kidding here, but on more than one occasion I came up for a breath of air and they were both standing at the end of the pool playing with their respective body parts.

It was like a train wreck, I just couldn't look away.




So other than the drama, the swim itself was pretty good. I slept well last night so I felt ok today. But I realized that I'm not going to be able to take a "sick day" this week. Too much stuff at work. Only two more weeks until Spring Break and maybe I can squeeze a sick day in there next week if I'm lucky.

And the biggest and best news of the day.....Cheyenne made her magazine debut today!!!!  Yeeeehawwww!  She's not the cover girl on the magazine, but she's the cover girl in our hearts! You can check out the website to see one photo of her and read her write-up. Hopefully they'll have a couple other photos of her in the magazine, I'd love to see one where she's looking at the camera-she has such a beautiful sweet face! Check her out!

http://www.austinfitmagazine.com/Fitness/Features/2011/March/2011-fittest-dogs.html

What a day!

M :)