Nothing real exciting in my workout tonight. I swam about 1600 yards focusing on a nice smooth, long stroke. I’m doing a SCY 1650 tomorrow so I figured I should do a swim just to stay loose and focus on some of the basics.

Repeat x 3
400 free
100 kick

plus I squeezed in a quick 50 breaststroke just because.

1550 yards plus 10 miles on the bike

In other exciting masters swimming news… 14 masters world records were broken at the Ron Johnson Invitational in Phoenix. Amongst the record breakers was Ande Rassmussen from Ande’s Swim Blog who was on two relays that broke records and narrowly missed breaking the record in the 45-49 100IM. I would keep an eye on his blog to get the details from the man himself. For more info on the records set at the Ron Johnson Invitational check out Swimming World Magazine.

I got back from my workout around 10PM and I’m feeling really good. My day started way off kilter… I was incredibly late for work which never happens, ever. I’m habitually early thanks to my mom and then this tendency was multiplied by military service. But today I slept an hour and a half past when I’m supposed to be in, whoops! Oh well, I guess one time ever is ok.

After work I made my way down to the beach and had some dinner. It was nice to sit outside, eat, and cool off after such a hot day. I almost didn’t go to the pool because I was feeling all run down from my weird day but something compelled me to get out there.

Once I got out on my bike everything clicked. It was a little after 8 at this point and super dark. There was a little bit of a breeze coming off the ocean and all was good in the world. At the gym I decided to just do a continuous block of swimming to reset my brain. I let my thoughts drift and kept a steady pace back and forth across the pool. I spent about 30 minutes cruising through the water for what I would guess was at least 2000 yards (I have a general inability to count out more than 200 yards in the pool). It got me thinking that I might want to deck enter the 1650 on Friday in San Luis Obispo. I usually don’t go for the distance stuff because I’m not a morning person but this is at 6 in the evening about 15 minutes from my house so I might just get my name on the list.

When I was done in the pool I soaked in the hot tub for a little bit and then made my way home. I probably rolled up to the door at about 10PM. I wonder how many other people there are out there that are night owl exercisers like me. If I could put together enough people locally I would love to have a “Midnight Masters” team that trained at the local high school pool after hours. Not likely, but a boy can dream right?