Well, I have plenty of excuses for not working out or swimming last week. The best one is that I was sick. I’m still having a tough time breathing, but it’s not enough to stop me from hitting the gym anymore. Charmaine came by my work around 6:30 and we headed to the gym for a swim.
Swim:
300 Free warm-up
200 Free
100 Kick
200 Free
100 Kick
5 x 100 Free @ 2:05 (coming in under 1:15)
100 Free easy
2 x 100 Kick
200 Free easy
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1900 yards
Even though I already had a pretty good swim at lunch (which is highly unusual for me on a Tuesday), I decided to take a break from work and hit the pool again tonight. Joey has been working on a really big change to some core pieces of our server and had to take a break around 6:00 to go to dinner. I knew he would be back to keep working on finding and fixing any problems left in the changes he made. That gave me the window to hit the pool. I called Charmaine and she came down and swam a bit too.
Swim:
500 Free warm-up
5 x 100 Free @ unknown (gold’s gym broken clock syndrome)
200 Kick
2 x (2 x 100 Free, 100 Kick)
200 Free warm-down
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2000 yards
Travis left work early today and asked that we do legs tomorrow. When lunchtime rolled around, Joey was nowhere to be found, so I headed over for an unusual Tuesday lunch swim. I had to be fairly fast, because I have a one-on-one with Martin at 1:30 on Tuesdays and I didn’t leave work till almost 12:30.
Swim:
500 Free warm-up
500 Free
5 x 100 Free @ unknown (yes, the clock is broken AGAIN)
250 Kick
250 Free warm-down
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2000 yards
I know I won’t be able to lift during lunch tomorrow, so I thought I’d get some extra exercise in tonight. Charmaine met me at the gym, but decided to hit the treadmill while I swam.
It was sort of crowded when I got in around 7:40. Not long after I started swimming, I was forced to share my lane. Luckily, the girl that got in my lane could swim very well. That only lasted for about 300 yards until the boyfriend-girlfriend combination got out and left me the center lane.
Swim:
400 Free warm-up
8 x 100 Free @ 2:15 (coming in @ 1:15)
100 Free easy
8 x 50 Kick @ 1:30 (coming in @ 0:50)
100 Free easy
200 Free warm-down
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2000 yards
I didn’t realize exactly how much I had used my shoulders during the cross-country skiing until I got under some weight on the flat bench today. It’s Joey and Lyndsey’s anniversary today, so he had to leave work a bit early for a “couples massage.” That meant that he worked until he left around 1:00. Travis and I worked until he left as well, then we headed to the gym where we ran into Kyle.
Weight: 246.8
Flat Bench:
185/20 225/10 245/5 — I need to go up next week
Incline Bench:
165/19(+1) 185/10 225/4(+1)
Incline Dumbbell Fly:
55/20 70/10 85/4(+1)
Bar Dip:
2 — total failure
We spent the weekend in Park City, where I finally learned how to cross country ski. I’m not sure that I’ve mastered the lingo, but I think they call what I did “skating.” I was shown the V1, V2, and V2 Alternate methods of skating. I figured out an additional method on my own; they called it “wimp skiing.” I was far from good at any of them, but I was least-bad at the V1.
I was surprised that the skis were so light. They don’t have metal edges, so that’s probably a big part of the reason they are so light. But they’re also very thin, which made it difficult for me to balance. I think I crashed about 10 times, with at least 3 of them being pretty hard. I even ran over my hand a couple times.
It was a lot of fun.
Cross-Country Ski:
5000m in about 90 minutes (I know, I’m slow)
Well, I headed back to the pool after work. I must be nuts.
I ran into Kyle at the gym. He told me more about the situation with Mitch. I think I finally understand a little bit of why he decided to leave Bungee Labs. Kyle says that they are basically making Mitch their number 2 guy. This all means that even though Bungee Labs has a better opportunity for overall growth (by far, IMHO), the personal opportunity that Mitch has may be better. Imagine that Bungee grows 10 times as much as Mitch’s new company. If he has more than 10 times as much ownership in the new company, he makes more money than he would at Bungee, even though Bungee grew so much more. Plus his salary must have gone way, way up.
I’m pretty sure that deal wouldn’t have convinced me to leave. First of all, I am not fit to be the one of the top dogs at a company yet. That offer alone would have told me that the company wasn’t going to do well. But even if it was purely a money thing, I’m not sure that would do it for me. I want to be a part of what Bungee Labs is building. I really think it’s going to have a profound impact on software in the not too distant future.
Enough rambling.
Swim:
500 Free warm-up
4 x 100 IM @ 3:00 (coming in @ 1:30) — this was hard. I should do more of it.
100 Free easy
5 x 50 Kick @ 1:30 (coming in @ 0:55)
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1250 yards
I felt bad telling Travis that I was going to swim today. I felt worse when I couldn’t find Joey, which meant Travis would be doing shoulders alone.
Swim:
250 Free warm-up
10 x 100 Free @ 2:05 (coming in between 1:15 and 1:20)
100 Free easy
5 x 50 Kick @ 1:30 (coming in under 0:55)
200 Free warm-down
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1800 yards
I met Charmaine at the gym for a swim after work. I’m still really sore from Monday’s chest workout, and I don’t think sitting in the hot tub tonight will be very good for my legs after what I did to them earlier today. It’ll be interesting to see if I can walk tomorrow and Thursday.
Swim:
500 Free warm-up
10 x 100 Free @ 2:05 (coming in under 1:15)
100 Free easy
5 x 50 Kick @ 1:30 (coming in @ 0:50)
200 Free easy
2 x 50 @ 2:00 (coming in @ 0:30)
250 Free warm-down
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2400 yards
I have my one-on-one meetings with our CEO on Tuesdays at 1:30, so we have to either cut the workout short, or get to the gym a bit early. Today we got to the gym early. Joey’s wife is still sick, so it was just me and Travis.
One of the trainers was using the Squat rack when we got there. We have a pretty good relationship with him. He kept asking us if we wanted a bench or a chair to use when we did out squats, so we would know how far down we needed to go. We have a running joke about not going deep enough on our squats. I went deep today. I’m going to feel it for a long time, but I think it was worth it.
Weight: 246.0
Squat:
225/20 275/10 315/5
Leg Press:
580/20 670/10 760/5
Standing Calf Raise:
395/20 395/10 395/10
Leg Extension:
140/20 170/10 200/5
Hamstring Curl:
95/20 120/10 145/5
Incline Sit-up:
20