Been offline for a while

Hello dear reader(s). Yes, I’ve been offline for a while. I figured it was time to write something.

I’ve been swimming a lot. It’s been wonderful. I’m back in the tiny pool I started this crazy obsession in so many years ago. Yes, I’m back in Russia, at the U.S. embassy in Moscow. Back in the tiny pool that turns my ear was blue. Yeah, you remember.

The pool is 50 feet, 4 inches long. So three laps is a bit over 100 yards. 300 and 2 feet for 3 laps. 100.8 yards per 3 laps. I round down to 100 yards. Good enough.

This is the pool that I trained in for my first-ever 10K. I did do a 10,000 yard swim in this pool 6 years ago, which made the Russian aquatics director guffaw at me in amazement. So…it took me 3:40. Tons of flip-turns. But why not?

I also did most of the training for my first beyond-10k-marathon-swim, Swim the Suck, in this very same pool. I love this pool. Except for what it does to the wax in my ears. And the little peach-fuzz hairs near my ears or between my eyebrows. Weird? Yeah. I have no idea why. And I don’t want to ask. I just live with it.

So back in this pool. And with a big swim in my mind. I’m training hard, hoping to get into a big swim next summer. Registration opens 1 November. I’ll be watching the internet for when the registration opens. The swim I’m looking at should take me between 8 and 10 hours to complete. I’ve done 6 hours straight. What’s a few more hours?

In other news, lots going on in the Iron Mike family. The youngest just destroyed some of her classmates in the pool with super fast 50m free and 50m back (her best event). She swam fast enough she qualified for the high school European meet (she’s still in junior high) that’ll happen in Warsaw in December. Also, our oldest just graduated Coast Guard basic training and is on his way to his first duty station in Seattle. I’m one happy Iron Mike-Dad!

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