Inaugural Honorary HSA Girl

Check out this article about a future Olympian... 

It takes cajones to do that kind of training, mostly alone, while dealing with frigid, dark winters. 

I hereby name Dagny Knutson the first ever Honorary HSA Girl.  

T-30

Here are the results of the first T-30 swim. 

2200 yards. I think. 

My watch timer didn't beep (at least not so I could hear it) so I'm guesstimating my distance based on the time that I stopped to check it and realized it had finished counting down and started over again. So frustrating. I need to figure out a better way of doing this, especially since I'd forgotten how hard it is to get a good test set in when you're dealing with open swim at a rec center.

Oh, practice Saturday was 4200 yards, the longest I've done since starting to train again. Yay!

Obliques. I wants them.

When I swim, I can tell that I am not rotating enough, or easily enough, and when I get tired I tend not to do it consistently. I'm sure this is because I have zero abdominal strength. Ergo, I headed to my first Pilates class yesterday. I think it's going to be exactly what I need, because everything from my ribs to my hips is sore today. Sadly, I think I'm only going to be able to get to one class a week at the gym--the others are too early in the day--so I think I'll get a DVD to try on my own and see how that goes. Plus, straight-up crunches never hurt anybody.

I did notice, though, during one of my post-workout inspections, that I *think* I might be getting the faintest shadow of baby obliques. They're not visible to the naked eye (only my own highly optimistic eye) but I do think they might be there. ;)