The weather won't warm up, even though its spring. We have Monday night swims at Asphalt Green on 91st and York - this cold weather makes the prospect of jumping in a pool at 9:30pm pretty...cold. But I have to make it to the swims. Last night, one of the tri coaches told me he has never seen anything like my swimming stroke, and it seems like hes been coaching for a long time. "Apparently", once you "scull" with your right arm (see root of "scull" from dictionary.com : an oar mounted on a fulcrum at the stern of a small boat and moved from side to side to propel the boat forward) , your left arm should be right behind. And "allegedly", I scull with my right and then just float for a couple seconds, and then scull with my left. No wonder I'm always last. He said I improved at the end, but I'm pretty sure he was just trying to assuage my ego.
I haven't made it to many of the GTS(group training sessions) this past week because it has been hectic at work and otherwise. It was my birthday on Saturday so that really inhibited pretty much anything productive for Sunday - it was a blast though, I think (see proof below)...(Ram.Roasted.Boom), thanks for coming to chill everyone.
Zach "Size 17s" Lamberg keeps making me run early in the AM. We're both making trips in the time machine to Emory and Michigan respectively this weekend so we had to get in some exercising "so we can be the best exercisers." The kid insists on wearing shorts when its 20 degrees at 6 am..not for me, I got the under armour, hat, gloves, etc. We're logging runs in the 5 to 7 mile range -48th down to 23rd...up to the east river entrance on 59th st bridge...up to 72 / 80th st...across to park and back down to 48th / 23rd. See classic Lamberg pic below. I have a plethora of these babies, so I'll try spread them out over the next few months.
News and Notes:
Took in the Nets v. Knicks Game with Nets fan club president Robbie Natelson, Dan "tri-angulate" Joels, and Dave "I dont write funny emails any more because I have a long commute to my new J-O-B" Miller and it was a thorough beating.....Shout out to Courtney Sims...Breaking News, Knicks are signing Michael Bresabrasow Melnitzky next.....Team One Left dominated Urban Professionals AGAIN last week - the outlook was dim for the opponent once they saw big Jake tear off his Jordan warmups...it was a 73-45 romping..Solid play all around - No subs..Trencher sent the tone falling harder than Robbie Natelson, Spira made some spectacular passes to Jake who was putting on his standard clinic, and Joels dominated the post with left, right baby hooks that would make Elgin Baylor blush.......had a little Strip House dinner with the family for the bday - 2 observations, (1) the goose fat potatoes are over-hyped and (2) River Palm is still way better
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