You may think it is funny that I am writing about an injury four months out. What sort of milestone is four months, anyway? Well, it’s less scary than six — which is what, in good faith, I would have to call this if I was writing a couple of weeks from now. Because the […]
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There are several women at my pool who are truly exceptional swimmers. Their strokes seems effortless. They glide across the pool unimaginably fast. They flip-turn. They arrive with their own apparatus, like pull buoys, swim paddles and resistance gloves. They have clearly been swimming since high school, or even middle school, swim team. And I […]
Whenever I try a new exercise, I want to do it well. I want to do it competitively, and I want to constantly improve. When I started swimming about six weeks ago, I didn’t expect to immediately be able to swim laps for an hour straight. Sure, I wanted to. But I knew that it […]
I am not currently in training, specifically. However I am working towards healing my injury and building up my strength, speed and endurance. My focus on endurance training is a bit different from what it was before my injury. My prior strategy was just to hang on for as long as possible. Now, I focus so much […]
A new sport means new gear. Having fallen in and out of love with running over the past sixteen years (we’re going steady now, though), there have been more than a couple of occasions when I have had to restock my supply of gear. This has typically meant spending upwards of $100 on new shoes, […]
It is easy to get sucked in to every piece of fitness advice that you see online or the cover of a healthy lifestyle magazine. But it is important to remember that the results of the best studies are based on statistics…and you are not a statistic. You’re a person. And had you been included […]
El Profesor and I are fortunate to live in a building with a pool. We lived part-year in Florida for four years and didn’t have a pool; but when we moved to our new apartment on the Upper East, suddenly: BOOM. Pool. I was excited about it, but it took me more than six months […]
The past several weeks have been an adventure in getting back to my usual self. I still have a way to go. The past three weeks have woven together in my mind because the recovery process is extremely gradual, and the routine of getting there extremely consistent. Medical At the end of week 2, I […]
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