I'm now a whaler

I've been swimming with the ARC Masters program for about a year and a half. However, since the Centennial pool construction is delayed, the abbotsford whalers club took over ARC for most of the summer, displacing the masters. In the spirit of "if you can't beat them join them", I joined the whalers and am now swimming 6 days a week.

Actually, I was really excited about the opportunity to join. I can work on my fundamentals, and possibly compete. I've been doing it 2 weeks now, and all my strokes have improved quite a bit. They run till the end of July. I'll pick up masters again in fall, until the winter session of whalers kicks in. The winter session is long distance oriented, the summer session is more sprint oriented.

100m time trial freestyle

1.21. Beat my last time by a second

Running again

I have been able to run recently, so it looks like my ankle injury is on the way out. I have run three times in the last week, although only about 3k per time. Today I did about 4 k. It felt like the stiffness and pain were melting away, none of the sharp pain I had before. I think the ankle brace really helps, the compression seems to keep the swelling down. I still have to be careful, but I think I'm on my way back. I've lost a fair bit of conditioning, my 3 Ks feel like 10-13 Ks. I think it will come back quickly though. I'm really happy to be able to get out again, I was starting to go nuts without running. Good to get the blood flowing. It's sunny this morning for the first time in a long time. Nice to get a break from the torrential downpour we've been having.

My new coffee table

After a months long search (perhaps years) I have finally found a replacement coffee table. Yes, this is exciting enough to post on the web. It had to be the right size, narrow enough to walk past, light enough to move around easily and nothing underneath it so I can sit and eat on it while watching tv. And a decent price, $59 bucks from Rona. Needs some stain or paint or something though. My other one had a broken leg that fell off every time you moved it. It was from the 70s or early 80s or something like that. Just thought I'd share my gladness.

Mazda6 '05

Well, after driving the pig...I mean the truck for a while I decided to move on to something faster and more fuel efficient. It's a hatchback!

Colts!

What a superbowl!

tridominator has a sprained ankle

This is the road I was running on. At night in the pitch black. I guess that's not a good idea. 2.5k limp back home, icing it in some freezing puddles along the way.



No fractures or anything though, although the doctor said it would have been better a fracture than a sprain because fractures heal faster. It's been about seven weeks now, I'm still not running. I tried a couple laps at the track the other day, but it didn't seem like a good idea. I'll stick to swimming for now, and maybe put some time on the bike trainer. Hopefully I'll be back running soon.

For those brave enough, here is my foot shortly after the fall: pic1 pic2 (warning:: kinda gross-ish)

my new truck

Here it is...

car for sale

I'm selling my car



<sniff>...it's..it's...been GOOD!!..<sniff><sniff>

100m Time trial: 1:22

We did a time trial in masters swim today. My 100m time was 1:22. That's up from January, which was 1:30.

My band plays Friday night at Straighton hall. Tickets are $13. We will probably be back at Sneakers at the end of November.

Christmas wish list

For the record, here is my official christmas/birthday wish list.


Colts hat
Bathroom scale yay
Kitchen scale yay
Roomba (scheduler version)

Rev-vival

Back with my old band now, Rev. Since I'm not racing now, might as well. Our first gig is on the 27th, it is a fundraiser for a softball team. The band has a new singer and a new bass player, they're both pretty good. Training is still going ok, but not at the same intensity as before. It's good to take a break.

Race season just about over

Well, it looks like my triathlon season is over. There's just the Vancouver one left, that's too soon for me, plus it starts at 7:00 in the morning. Which should be against some kind of official rule. Not much else happening. The only thing left on my agenda is to do the Abbotsford Police challenge 10K run on Sept 23, so now I should focus on my running more. Too bad, I would have liked to do another triathlon in October. There are probably a few running races yet if I wanted, but they are so boring in comparison!

I should make my own triathlon, the sawatzky fall classic...hmm, cultus lake, ummm, well I'll work on it.

Time to look back now...hard to believe I accomplished all my goals for this year. I competed in an Olympic triathlon. 5 races total so far, 2 with age group medals. Triathlon is a fun, fun sport. Next year: half iron? We'll see. First I gotta get a non-hybrid bike!

The Day

The day started off with a phone call with an automated message saying: "Congratulations! you have been randomly selected to be given an all expenses paid trip to Florida! Press '9' for more details..."

Here is another test post. Visit my home page at www.chrissawatzky.com

More from the Tri without borders triathlon

This is a test of my new blog system. This blog seems to be much better than my old one, so I think I will switch.

Trying to upload these images...

These are from the tri without borders triathlon in Blaine WA. Starts in Canada, then you swim across to the US and finish the race. Neat idea, and a really beautiful event.

Note that the time displayed in the run wasn't my actual time. My time was 2:31:44. Because of the weird swim start due to the tides, the clock started late, or something weird like that. I know, you may be thinking, "Why tell me? Just take the clock time?". I don't want a pretend time. :) It would sorta be like taking steroids...if my body can't do it, I don't want to do it.

Here are the race results. I was 77th.