Sunday - had basketbally from 7 pm to 9 pm. I'm still breaking in new shoes and for the first half hour I felt particulary uncomfortable. Not just the shoes. My knee hurt, sore whenever I tried to pivot or cut. Even when I was in super slo-mo. Gradually the pain went away and I played poorly, but wasn't because of any specific pain. Haven't got in a groove yet. Shot poorly, too. We lost both games.
Monday - light spin class with Heather. Sort of like a day off.
Tuesday - Masters class today.
Warmup: 200 yards;
First set: 4 x 50 twice; fast, medium, easy, fast; (I skipped #4) did them on 1:00 interval;
Second set: 8 x 150 = 1200 yards;
3rd set: 200 pull; bilateal breathing
total yards: 2,000 yards;
I felt sluggish today. Craig said that I'm bunched up. Said I was trying to go faster by speeding up my arm rotation, but that I need to have my body rotation drive the increase in turnover. I think he means that the hip rotation should push the arm rotation, instead of the arm rotation pulling the hip rotation.
Neck is sore; back is stiff; groin/hernia issue not worse, not better. I will continue to watch it.
There was a good crowd for Masters. Lots of fast swimmers, which makes it more difficult for me as the "slow" lane where I swim has to be shared by fast swimmers. Erica and I are the only legit slow swimmners; today we shared with dave and Katie - but they did longer distances and still finished the big set ahead of me. Not discouraged, but not encouraged either. Trying not to make age an excuse.
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