At the beach, Atlantic City, 1902

Via Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities...

Sea swim!

A delightful mile of swimming in the sea...

Sunday treadmill

1.5hr. treadmill run (zone 2). And in those little words is contained an infinity of mental suffering!

Saturday gym

Yesterday it was sloth v. sea swim, and I am sorry to say sloth won--we went to happy hour at Fidel Murphy's instead, it was very pleasant but not very triaspirational!

This morning: 4 treadmill miles (three quite slow, one modestly fast[er]), plus a bit of stationary bike. Hmmm, got to start running faster again!

Thursday swim

And a very good one, too. If I swam in that lane regularly, I would just have to give in and start swimming quite a bit faster--it would be mind over matter!

Skipped some bits here and there to catch my breath and keep up...

200 warmup

5 x 150 as 25 kick, 50 pull, 75 swim (on a couple I just did 25 swim)

Nice ladder: 25 fly, 50 back, 75 breast, 100 free, 200 drill (six strokes plus one breath, finger-drag by 50 and repeat), 100 free (skipped 50 for breath-catching purposes), 75 breast, 50 back, 25 fly.

4 x 100 as 25 no air, 75 strong swim

150 cooldown: 50 double-arm back, 50 back, 50 free

+/- 2000 yards total

Internet time-wasting

I've been looking for pictures of Cayman land crabs--I have not found the kind of link I was hoping for (I must consult a reference work at the bookstore, I think!), with pictures and names of different species, but this link has some excellent pictures and descriptions.

The other morning I saw an enormous bulbous land crab of the fawn-colored translucent kind--it really might have been as much as eight inches across, the size of a small dinner plate! It scuttled across the sidewalk in front of me. It was huge...

I saw a smaller one of those guys last night also, but more dramatically, during the last bit of the run I spotted first one and then a whole crew of bright orange-legged crabs under a hedge along West Bay Road... there must have been twenty or thirty of 'em, in all different sizes!

Cat's hill

This article is somewhat at odds with the one I posted the other day!

Wednesday run

It is one of the utter mysteries of the world how a run that might fairly be described as hot, hard, tortoisely slow and altogether quite effortful can also leave me feeling that I have just had the most delightful hour in the history of the world! Hmmmm, distinctly cheerfulness-inducing, especially now that I have de-sweated...

50 min. slow hot run (zone 2)

Red lights

A great article on the battle for supremacy in Central Park between runners, cyclists, dogs and the rest of the world... (Thanks to Becca for the link.)

Tuesday run

Sandy. Hot. Arduous. Nice!

(Very slow--forty minutes, and I covered not quite 3.5 miles--but it is good training in its way, that's pretty hard effort with the combination of heat and sand. My water belt has two bottles, only 10oz. each--I think I am not equipped to go much longer, I would have to really eke out the dribbles and drops!)

Today I remembered to take off my shoes right at the door so that I did not trail huge amounts of sand all over the condo!

Monday swim

Details by now all a jumble--I started in too slow a lane and moved to a faster, so I did kind of a mixup of bits of the workout, with an extra 50 here and a missed 50 there... maybe 1800 yards total, mostly freestyle with a fair amount of free drill and backstroke on the non-free bits?

Monday gym

.75hr. stationary bike (zone 1/2), plus 25 mins. miscellaneous core/upper body. Got some useful tips on form from the gym attendant, only it is possibly slightly more appealing to feel invisible than to get good advice! But he was quite right, those front and lateral raises are always a weak point for me form-wise (keep elbows bent on lateral, avoid swinging on front), and the notion of raising the base of the back extension machine by putting a low bench under it had never occurred to me but noticeably improved things...

Sunday TM

5 easy treadmill miles. Very hot and sweaty! One bottle of water is not enough if I want to go a full hour--I called it around fifty minutes, and will bring a second bottle next time...

Saturday gym

I am laughing to myself, a little bit, because I am in the lap of luxury now: I have access to not one but two different gyms! Just a bit of cardio: 30 mins. treadmill (would have been longer, but had to make a bathroom run for stomach issues and could not quite face getting back on the thing afterwards), 20 mins. stationary bike. Zone 2. Nice!

Sea swim!

Utter bliss!

(1 mile?)

Salt water is nice, and sun...

... and we saw a huge turtle! It is not even hyperbolic if I say that it was two feet long...