today i met up with my old neighbor is totally awesome. when we lived in our old house she was always offering to help me out swimming but i never took her up on it instead trying to get her to go open water swimming instead. she wasn't too keen on that but really who can blame her. but i have been swimming a ton (for me) since the beginning of the year and my shoulder has begun to hurt and my coach kept telling me to get some 1/1 attention so I sent our old neighbor an email asking for her help.
she met me at a pool in seattle, i have been on quite the pool tour lately. This was my 4th pool in two weeks. i wasn't sure on what to expect, but hot damn i learned a lot. by the end of the hour she had totally changed my stoke, had me comfortably breathing on both sides and just cutting through the water smoother then I have ever felt, and my shoulder didn't hurt at all! i could hardly beleive it!!! she said starting out that my stroke was pretty good but the changes she had me make made a world of difference. i need to work on swimming down because I was swimming like / she had me float for a while and determined that i am a sinker! i need to work on rotating more - the key to aleiving the shoulder pain. and lastly i need to use my arms like a windmill! she explained it all in a way that i can totally visualize and actually do. she said i did a good job because i followed direction really well, sometimes a little too well. but all in all its so awesome. now i can't wait until the next masters swim session to see how it goes. she said we can meet up again in a few weeks to see how its going.
but today was pretty much the end of my rest week. i've got 2hrs on the bike tomorrow followed by 45 minute run. weather is saying its going to rain which is going to BLOW ASS. yes i said it. especially since it was so beautiful today, reaching almost 60! last sunday when we started out it was 28 degrees but sunny. 28 and raining would kind of mean snow. or ice, which would mean not riding on the road. runnign this morning it was coooold with some ice on the puddles in the wetlands.
i got bullied into buying jeans that were twice as expensive as the ones i had set out to buy. grr. they look good i think but really after trying on 20 pairs they all blend together. and eric is learning! he is so good. i tried them on for him and his initial reaction was "wow, those make your butt look really good" then he changed it to "wow, your butt makes those jeans look good' or something funny like that. he also had the bonus of getting to see me in my silly swimsuit today. he made my day by telling me i looked like a swimmer in it and that really i didn't look so silly after all, despite the clouds and the rainbow and the birds on my arse.
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