First, two things:
1.) I am part Italian.
2.) I did use clippers first.
....
So, yeah. I feel like I just finished Tolstoy's War and Peace. Holy ****, did that take a long time! And I thought I did everything right, too. I used the clippers first. I took a shower before. I used shaving cream with the razor. I went through like four razor blades. I literally went into that bathroom of mine, locked the door, and didn't leave for FIVE HOURS. Did I say it was FIVE HOURS? Have I uppercased it enough?! I even had to take a second shower near the end so my skin wouldn't be so darn sticky so I could tell the difference between clingy hair and hair that was still attached.
Worst part was shaving the area around my collar bone. :bitching: It's all red now... I put some lotion on it.
On the other hand...
My second shower... uh whoa. That's a nice little taste of what's to come tomorrow, I guess. Washing my hands feels weird. Putting on shirts feels weird, too. So does putting on socks. And a sweatshirt. And shorts. I even feel like I'm moving through the air faster.
So I'm swimming at a three-day meet starting tomorrow. I do the 500 tomorrow, the mile and 200 *** on Saturday, plus a relay tomorrow and another on Sat.
My PB in the 500 is a 6:31.5. I will let you all know what the new number is tomorrow.
This is gonna be worth it. It has to be. That big ole pile of body hair that I swept up off the floor told me just that!
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Just finished up the second day of the meet. I wasn't entered in anything today (turns out the relay I thought I was in, I really wasn't), so I occupied myself with cheering on all my teammates. My voice is all hoarse now.
Yesterday, I beat out seven people to make the consolation final. I was assigned to lane #8. It's just consolation, but darnit, I didn't make it this far last April with my time of 7:37. My dad and brother came to watch, and- this is the part I hope you guys will like- they took video! But I'm kind of at a loss as to how to get the quicktime file to display on here. I, of course, need to improve. I've only watched the video once but I already spotted about six or seven things that need work. You guys can probably find more.
Anyway- the race! So far, yesterday's final race was my favorite swim yet. The guy next to me on block #7 entered with a time under six minutes. He was fifteenth fastest in the 500 at the meet at prelims. My prelim time was 6:23.67.
Here I am waiting for the race to start:
i2.photobucket.com/.../waitingforrace.jpg
Notice how white my chest is... that's where all the hair used to be. I also have terrible posture... urgh. Need to fix that.
Buzzer went off:
i2.photobucket.com/.../divingin.jpg
My coach is so right, my hips need to be up when I dive in. Right now they're low. But I'm glad it looks like I'm getting rid of my dork dive, slowly but surely. I could probably also do with jumping out a bit farther. What do you guys think?
For the first third of the race, I managed to keep pace with a teammate of mine who used to be worlds faster than me, but eventually I slowed down.
About halfway through the race, the swimmer I mentioned earlier caught up with me. I guess he was swimming more evenly than me, which probably means I need to work on my pacing. We were neck and neck for about 150 yards, before he got ahead of me. I made a decision around the last 75 yards that I would crank it up and beat him in the last 25.
It ALMOST worked, but I ran out of pool. Going into the last turn, he was two body lengths ahead, probably.
The scoreboard:
i2.photobucket.com/.../500freetimes.jpg
Dissecting the race with the teammate who also swam it:
i2.photobucket.com/.../afterrace.jpg
As it turns out, the other guy who swam it under six minutes that morning went 6:07.99 in the final. Eek. All in all, I think I won the war.
I need to:
-keep working on my SDK.
-not breathe on my first stroke off the wall... this is totally just a test of my willpower
-stay in the center of the lane. GAH!
-kick just a bit faster
-fix my left arm entry. It's right above my head as I'm breathing. :confused: It's not okay to do that, right?
Just finished up the second day of the meet. I wasn't entered in anything today (turns out the relay I thought I was in, I really wasn't), so I occupied myself with cheering on all my teammates. My voice is all hoarse now.
Yesterday, I beat out seven people to make the consolation final. I was assigned to lane #8. It's just consolation, but darnit, I didn't make it this far last April with my time of 7:37. My dad and brother came to watch, and- this is the part I hope you guys will like- they took video! But I'm kind of at a loss as to how to get the quicktime file to display on here. I, of course, need to improve. I've only watched the video once but I already spotted about six or seven things that need work. You guys can probably find more.
Anyway- the race! So far, yesterday's final race was my favorite swim yet. The guy next to me on block #7 entered with a time under six minutes. He was fifteenth fastest in the 500 at the meet at prelims. My prelim time was 6:23.67.
Here I am waiting for the race to start:
i2.photobucket.com/.../waitingforrace.jpg
Notice how white my chest is... that's where all the hair used to be. I also have terrible posture... urgh. Need to fix that.
Buzzer went off:
i2.photobucket.com/.../divingin.jpg
My coach is so right, my hips need to be up when I dive in. Right now they're low. But I'm glad it looks like I'm getting rid of my dork dive, slowly but surely. I could probably also do with jumping out a bit farther. What do you guys think?
For the first third of the race, I managed to keep pace with a teammate of mine who used to be worlds faster than me, but eventually I slowed down.
About halfway through the race, the swimmer I mentioned earlier caught up with me. I guess he was swimming more evenly than me, which probably means I need to work on my pacing. We were neck and neck for about 150 yards, before he got ahead of me. I made a decision around the last 75 yards that I would crank it up and beat him in the last 25.
It ALMOST worked, but I ran out of pool. Going into the last turn, he was two body lengths ahead, probably.
The scoreboard:
i2.photobucket.com/.../500freetimes.jpg
Dissecting the race with the teammate who also swam it:
i2.photobucket.com/.../afterrace.jpg
As it turns out, the other guy who swam it under six minutes that morning went 6:07.99 in the final. Eek. All in all, I think I won the war.
I need to:
-keep working on my SDK.
-not breathe on my first stroke off the wall... this is totally just a test of my willpower
-stay in the center of the lane. GAH!
-kick just a bit faster
-fix my left arm entry. It's right above my head as I'm breathing. :confused: It's not okay to do that, right?
