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Swimming

My second triathlon.

by Runner Susan on August 3, 2010

in Bike,Race Reports,Running,Swimming,The Dark Side,Tri

If you remember last year, my Martini Twin and I did our first tri together – it was great, except for the part where I didn’t know how to swim and freaked out. Totally and completely freaked out. Which, having never really swam before, was a completely understandable thing to do. But I was determined [...]

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Swim Video

by Runner Susan on February 5, 2010

in Swimming

Here I am five weeks after starting my master’s swim class. And I’m still alive; which is hard to believe since heavy rocks are more accomplished at swimming than yours truly. This video is the last 100 yards of our 2000 yard swim this morning – I still have a long, long ways to go, [...]

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Running? What’s that?

by Runner Susan on January 14, 2010

in Friends,Running,Swimming,Training Runs

Hello Internet People, I promised more blog and so I must provide; even if it is boring, I am a woman of my word. (How’s that for fancy? Two commas and a semicolon. Although I have no clue if they are correct.) This past weekend my friends Marta and Milka came to town for a [...]

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I’m on my 6th lesson with the master’s group and I am yet to be a master swimmer. I’ve belched so much chlorine I should be a pro by now. I still very much like air and I very much hate water in my face. There isn’t much more to say other than I just [...]

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Open Water

by Runner Susan on August 20, 2009

in Swimming

My biggest fear in the entire world is drowning. In Runner Susan’s world, there isn’t much worse than death by drowning. It used to be death caused by a giant hunk of metal plowing me over while I was innocently driving my bike down the road. And before that it was all those crazy psychopaths [...]

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I’m almost certain I will forget something even though I have three bags of things needed for the sprint tri: wine, shoes and other stuff – so I should be all set – and yet there is just so much to take it’s bordering the ridiculous. A new bike would not be bordering ridiculous though, [...]

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