Time for a summary of recent workouts. On Monday I decided I deserved a day off after my two half marathon weekend, so I did nothing. On Tuesday, I got out of class an hour and half early and was thus consumed with indecision: should I run? bike? swim? In the end I went home and rode for an hour on the trainer. As I glanced out the window, I realized that I actually could have done the ride outside; it’s staying light late enough now. It was dim at the end of my ride, but I could have done it.
(Mental note to get one of those flashing red lights for the back of my bike in case I do ever end up out on the roads at twilight.)
Last night, I had driven all the way home before I remembered that I was supposed to be going to the pool. No worries, as the pool is only a mile away. I stopped by the apartment complex office to pick up my $9-wait-I-mean-$49 scanner (more on that in a minute) and then headed over to the rec center where I did 1550 yards in 29:31. I also discovered that I cannot for the life of me use my Garmin correctly. Last night I was only using it as a watch sitting on the pool deck and even then, at the end of each set of 100, I started hitting the stop/start button instead of lap. Idiot.
Anyway, this is the first workout that I actually have splits from, so here you go:
500 yards – 5:40, which is actually more like 9:40, because I hit stop/start instead of lap
Then I started hitting the correct button and did 100 yard sets (no stopping between) in:
1:52 – 1:55 – 1:53 – 1:58 – 1:57 – 2:52 (ok that was 150 yards) – 1:54 – 1:52 – 1:56 – 1:54
I was consistent, so I was happy. From those times, I can confirm that the wetsuit takes 10 seconds off my 100 yard time, since I averaged 1:46/100 yards with the wetsuit. Pretty cool.
Onward…
I mentioned my $9-I-mean-$49 scanner that I bought off Amazon. It’s the same one Laurie posted about; I went to look at what she’d gotten, the Epson V100, and Amazon listed it as $89 with an $80 rebate. I double-checked. $89, with an $80 rebate offer. Well I couldn’t turn down a $9 scanner, especially since it can scan film and my current scanner cannot since it’s ancient. (Really, I think I got it in 1998. Ancient in computer terms.)
So I bought it, and Amazon shipped it, and then I got an email saying that they’d made a mistake, and the rebate was only $40. So I’m trying to decide what to do with it, since it now cost me $49 in addition to the fact that I already have a scanner.
Oh who am I kidding. Of course I’m going to keep it. It’s new, and I want the film-scanning capability. So, anybody want a 10-year-old HP scanner? Yes, it does work.
Onward…
Last night Jose and I had dinner at Thai Cottage. I love that place. Especially their soft springs rolls, which we order solely for the peanut sauce. Seriously, their peanut sauce is awesome. I got pad thai last night, a departure from my normal. It was ok, but next time I’ll get curry again. Their curries are great, but their pad thai isn’t as good as Pei Wei’s.
Afterwards, we stopped by Lowe’s because I needed to get a key made. Did you know that you can get fancy keys now? You can get a Texas A&M key, or a tye-dyed key, or an Astros key, or any number of other designs. I chose a brightly colored striped key. Designer keys. Crazy. I also impulse-bought a mini-greenhouse of flowers — 6 tiny pots in a plastic container with seeds included. We’ll see if they sprout.
They also had a mini-greenhouse of cactus, which I almost bought for old times sake and to amuse Becca. But I decided that killing not one but two cactii during the 2000-2001 academic year was enough for this decade.