2 x 100 w/u
1650 race (19:45.91)
cooldown

age group win, 5th woman overall

I'm incredibly tired

Alyie. Why is it called 'distance night'?

day of masters' championship meets is for distance events only - the 1000 and 1650. You can only swim one. They are long events and some people take like half an hour to swim that far so rather than make all the impatient sprinters watch, we do a distance day first and then the other events follow in the next three days.

At the December championship meet, we didn't start until the evening. I swam at 1pm or so but I've still been calling it "distance night" because it just sounds good and helps me get psyched up for it.

Thank you - I am very happy with that time.

nothing, but something

I've been looking at that race...and I look forward to your report. Good luck on the weather...

that is awesome. I look forward to that report too.

have fun

Congrats!

I imagine all the stair running will pay off in June.

Thanks, everyone and good to here from you Bruce. Hopefully, I'll stay healthy and have a good run. Hills are my favorite, but I've only done this one as a steady hike. Last year, I went up Huntington Ravine in less than two hours (or there abouts) on the day of the race and got to see most of the finishers. I've done that for about 3 years. This time I get to run (with maybe some walking along the way)!

Keep running!

forget to give me your total mileage for the day.

I might run again later.

I'd say for this morning, 2+ warmup, 6+ for the workout and 2+ for cool down.

So lets say 10 for this morning.

Saturday won't feel like today. I'm going out like the guy the race is named for used to go out in races. To me it's a one mile race with 2.1 miles of suffering. It's going to be so painful. I might not even win.

I think current course record holder Adam Goode will be there, so if he runs his own race, then things should be very interesting the final mile when he catches me. Should be fun.

yourself enough? Why are you doing that? Just win the race.

There are two types of runners. Racers and pacers.

The racer is competitive and winning is everything.

The pacer likes to go for fast times and isn't concerned with place.

I'm a pacer. I like to run fast, but I'm not a very competitive person. If I run a fast time and get 2nd or 10th or 30th, I'm happy. I've won races and kicked stuff around after because I missed a course record by a few seconds. I may have won by 1, 2 or 3 minutes, I didn't care. The only reason I get competitive at all is if I have a course record and someone challenges it.

I don't know which type I am

Swimming - practice swimmers and meet swimmers. I'm in the first group, really good at workouts, swim about the same times at meets. Zach's the opposite: terrible workout swimmer, good at meets.

Most people who are racers will not continue to run after they cannot win anymore. Most elite runners are racers.

Of course some racers can deal with age group winning, some cannot and stop running completely.

for me Saturday, Ginger. Didn't I tell you? I'm opting for the treadmill run.

That's funny.

why don't we meet at the Y Sat. morning at 9, and then we could have lunch after.

Since it will be early, perhaps we can have mimosas instead of cosmos or martinis....