Picking up my bike and substitute swim coach!

Workout: Coached swim practice
I got off of work early today, because Steve over at Open Road Bicycle Shop called me up and said my bike was done. I was quite happy with it, there's a lot of quality components on it and it looks really sexy. There's a giant red racing strip on it. Steve said, "It looks a lot better than it actually is." Haha, good one, Steve!

Steve posing with my Biachi Via Nirone 7

Today was also swim practice and we had a substitute swim coach. Joy is fantastic. I think she's worked with so many people on their swimming that she knew a lot of great tips that really helped directly with common problem areas. Her best advice for me was to keep my arm straight ahead and gliding as I pulled my other arm out of the water. If you start your stroke too early, it causes your body to sink. This helps maintain my center of gravity and keep my body streamline. She really pushed us too. She kept the drills lined up one after another and it felt like a great workout.

Resplendent swim coach, Joy

The first time I met her at Señor Fish, I had no idea who she was but she let me share her chicken salad as I waited for my fish platter to come out.

Teasing James

Workout: Coached swim practice

After our swimming practices, we usually go to Señor Fish for some really good seafood burritos and tacos, but I don't know, I'm not a foodie. Which is also good because after swim practice, we're usually starving. We usually try and stack as many tables as we can, which isn't easy because the restaurant is busy Wednesday nights.

This particular night, Lynn talking about how she was following this technique for swimming called Total Immersion which was pretty much what all our drills are working toward, except in the book, it explains scientifically why are the different steps are done. Then I hear James say, "Ya, you look great in the water," and I couldn't help but tease him a little. I said, "You won't mind if I steal that line from you."