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Ironman Lake Placid

Swimming and race weight

This morning was a pretty easy swim, most showed up late so I had about 1500 yards in before we actually started the workout. Jan was in the pool today so there was no messing around once the workout actually started.

500 – warmup
500 – pull
500 – swim,pull
1000 – 2 x 200 (pull), 3 x 100, 4 x 75 (kick)
1000 – 2 x 200 (free,stroke), 3 x 100, 4 x 75
Total: 3500 yards

My weight has been slowly dropping, still have a ways to go before I’m where I want to be though. I saw a quote the other day that I thought was pretty funny, but seems true.

“The trick is to keep losing weight until your friends and family ask if you’ve been sick. Then you know you’re within 10 lbs. If they start whispering to each other, wondering if you’ve got cancer or aids, you’re within 5lbs. When they actually do an intervention, you’re at race weight.” – Slowman

I thought it was pretty funny, because usually at some point as a train people start asking me “You’re not going to lose any more weight are you?” I guess that means I have been within 10 lbs of race weight.

Weight: 166.5