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Friday, May 12, 2006

Workout that sent someone to the hospital

You know it's a good workout when someone goes to the hospital.
Here's what happened. 6 am swim workout with the new crazy coach. She puts up 3 levels of workout, beginner, moderate, advanced. Willie chooses advanced, so join him I must. Our buddy from Brazil, Fabio joined us too as well as one armed Trudy and some other. About 20 minutes into the workout crazy coach Jenny has one of the lifeguards bring over her Asthma inhaler. I see her puffing away. She tried to swim some more laps, but I saw her gasping at the end of the pool, I thought she may have just been catching her breath from this tough workout she put together. Next thing I know she's out of the pool and gone. Reports from the pool deck were that they took her to the hospital. It's a stones throw to the hospital since the swim center is for employees of the hospital. That's a good thing. I hope she's alright. I'll let you know on Monday.
Total swim distance 3200 meters or about 2 miles. All that before work.
Tonight we're going to sushi for my birthday (35). Yeah, I changed age groups. I get to race 35-39 now. Yesterday I had to run a 3:10 to qualify to run the Boston Marathon, today I have to run a 3:15 ( I will make an attempt at qualifying in St. George, Utah in October. I'd love to race Boston.). That's the great thing about aging. I actually think I am in the best shape of my life right now and hope that I keep improving as I get older. My older friends that I race with have proven it can be that way. One-armed Willie turns 45 this year and won the Catalina Marathon and can kick my butt running and biking any day of the week.

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