I found these on Facebook today. Not sure if they are ridiculous or awesome… if nothing else they are the perfect gift for the aquatically inclined girl that has everything :)

If you’re absolutely enamored with these you can learn more about them on Manolo’s Shoe Blog. The artist that created them is named Lisa Carney. Unfortunately her site doesn’t have any fins on it, but she does make some pretty interesting jewelry.

So this is what I cart all over the place with me when I go to swim practice. Apparently I am hording goggles, that’s not even the whole collection… and I have 3 more pairs en route as we speak. I have problems :) I’ll only race in one type of goggles but I try out new ones all the time in workout just because.

So here’s what I have in the bag:

1. Speedo Speed Training Fins
2. Nike Pool Buoy
3. H20 Audio Interval (for solo swims only)
4. Swim Cap (to hold down the MP3 player)
5. Gatorade (I have a preference for purple flavored)
6. TYR Socket Rockets, smoked and metallic (for workouts)
7. Mesh blueseventy swim bag (came with my B70 wetsuit)
8. blueseventy Element Goggles (a freebie with my B70 Nero Comp)
9. Speedo Sengar Goggles, smoked and metallic (for racing)
10. Spray-on Sunscreen
11. Lock

So what am I missing? I don’t carry paddles on purpose, they don’t jive well with my shoulder. Anybody playing with any cool new pool toys that I should check out?

5 x 100 free
4 x 100 dolphin kick w/ fins alt w/ kickboard and on my back
3 x 100 free
2 x 100 kick w/ fins alt w/ kickboard and on my back
1 x 100 free fast

4 x 25 fly

200 pull (100 w/ paddles, 100 w/o)

3 x 100 free

100 cool down

2200 yards total

I was out there doing my best stereotypical triathlete impression tonight. I had fins, paddles, kickboard and a pool buoy. I was a wetsuit and a snorkel away from completing the look :) Up until this point I haven’t used anything other than a kickboard in the pool, but the workout group in Santa Maria does use equipment so I figured that I needed to get used to it. Tonight was my first time swimming with fins in probably a decade. It’s fun to go that fast, but man did I feel it in my quads! I only did about 100 yards with paddles and I’m not sure if I really want to use them. They stress my shoulder in a you’re-going-to-break-something way, not a this-is-making-you-stronger kind of way. Tomorrow I’m planning on doing a workout in Santa Maria, we’ll see how I keep up.

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How many weird things can you fit into 1 picture? I think this is your answer…

If you could really do this do you think it would be legal? Highly unorthodox freestyle? Off to the USMS rule book!