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Sunday, July 18
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| Categories: Uncategorized Sundays are quiet, it seems, for lengths time at the pool. It was very nice for a change.
My knees felt stiff today after earlier switching to the breast stroke almost full-time, but icing them and taking a couple of ibuprofen after the swim seems to be keeping them going.
Today, I did another 2.3k in 1:58, leaving 13k to go. I could do at least four more lengths if my knees were slightly better, but they have worsened and I'm babying them through this event.
When the 2010 Swim for the Cure is over, I'll be going back to the crawl, and working on my technique. I'm going to check into private lessons, too, to see where I need to fix things before they become muscle memory that I have to erase.
Mondays and Wednesdays, I'll be doing double swimming for the summer and during September at White Oaks, from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. When the Ridge opens again at the end of September after its annual cleaning, I'll be able to do 3.5 hours a day Tuesday through Friday, so I'll probably keep just the Monday early swim in my schedule to keep up the extra exercise for weight loss and muscle strength.
There isn't any two-hour lengths time on the weekends until the next summer, so I'll have those two days off. I can always do my ace fitness adviser's weights and band exercises on those days, should I be inspired. 
I thought you might be interested in my total time and distance to date. I have completed 12.8k in 10.75 hours.
That's almost exactly the time it took me to do the shorter version of the swim in 2003, when I had no knee problems. Since then, I have not been able to enter the event because of my severe physical limitations, but I thought that this year I could get back in the water and try it a different way, after dropping 124 pounds (with 80 or 90 left to do) since March '09.
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by Debbie Shallhorn King on Sun, Jul 18, 2010 @ 2:34 PM. To pledge, please visit my personal page.
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In the Severn: no slowing (or actually stopping) every 25 metres to reverse direction; no slowing sometimes (or actually stopping) to avoid collisions with other swimmers; no worrying about straying from a lane or whether your time is up and you have to get out of the pool etc. etc.
And most significant of all, in the Severn that year, there was no crippling degeneration of knee cartilage causing pain on every kick.
Furthermore, you had the world's worst canoeist beside you in the river, and the constant proximity of such a hazard would have motivated ANYBODY to swim like the dickens!
To even get close to that year's time for 12.8 km is remarkable.
As for the canoeist, he finished in the same time I did, though he had more time to look at the scenery on shore and along the river. Still, he didn't hit me with the canoe or the paddle as he did in 2002. :)
As Maurice Chevalier would say, "Ah, I remember it well."
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