Lake Anza
June 30th, 2009
Morning swimming at Lake Anza
We’ve been practicing our open water swimming here at Lake Anza in Tilden Regional Park (Berkeley). One day Patty will embrace swimming. Today was not that day. For me, things are going fairly well with it. It really doesn’t bother me to be swimming in the green murk and I’m up to 1000 yards continuous swim in the pool. I’m feeling pretty confident about swimming 400m during the triathlon in a few weeks. The main issue now is sighting. Doing it without using a lot of energy is a problem, which probably means I’m trying to get my head too far out of the water, or attempting to do it at the wrong time. Of course swimming around in circles is not good either. I might need to be able to swim 1000 yards!
Very cool picture! Nice : ) Sighting efficiently does take some work. I have incorporated it into my stroke. For example, 3 strokes, breathe on R, next stroke, breathe on R, 3 more strokes, breathe L, next stroke site. Repeat. Does that make sense? So if you can figure out how to incorporate it into a regular stroke pattern I think it becomes easier.
That’s AWESOME that you are up to 1000m in the pool! It won’t be long and you’re going to be ready for the biggest race of your life…what Ironman are you eyeing? Utah, 2010?!?! AZ is EASY, well as easy as an IM can be! If you come to the race this year, you can sign up and hopefully you won’t even have to visit me in the hospital, because I’m not going to repeat last year ; )