Feets, don't fail me now

8 miles, 1:22:58 on Urbano Drive. I kinda wanted to go the 9th mile, but I was pretty crispy by then, so I’m glad I didn’t.

Followed that up with another personal best by swimming a kilometer in the pool. 45 laps is 1012.5 meters and I did that in 38:13. Of course swimming in a pool is relatively easy; you can touch bottom to rest, kick off against the wall when turning around, and a zillion other “cheats”. Plus they keep the water pretty warm. Swimming in the Bay will be more challenging in a lot of ways. But I gotta crawl before I can run and today was my best crawl ever on top of my longest run ever.

If I were crispy before the swim, I’m char-broiled now. I started to cramp up during the swim, first my arch felt like it was cramped and I just gently worked through it, flexing and rotating my foot in a backstroke until it subsided, and THEN just as I was getting out of the pool I had the beginnings of a calf cramp. Basically did the same thing walking on it ever so gently but still stretching it out.

I saw attractive women in swim suits at the pool at the gym today. That happens way too infrequently.

Last item, I stepped on broken glass in the locker room. I wasn’t cut, but that’s pretty scary. I was way too tired to sue. Actually, I’m way more angry at whatever dipweed broke a bottle in a locker room and then just left it there than I am at the management of the gym, who went to find a broom first thing they heard.

Ah well. Adventures at McGym.