Leaving for Davis in the Morning

Getting myself ready to trek up to NORCAL to do the Davis Pentathlon. I'm stoked to do a pentathlon specifically because it will give me a baseline in every stroke to see where I am at. This is going to be my first meet in a decade so I'm not sure exactly what to expect performance wise.

My big goals for this weekend are to swim a good 50 free, a good 50 fly, not embarrass myself in the other events, and get some waffle fries at a Chick-fil-a... that last one isn't swimming related, I just love waffle fries and I haven't had Chick-fil-a since I left Texas back in 2004. In preparation for the meet I did shave down... my head and most of my facial hair anyways :) I'm down to just a strip down the middle of my chin, I'm hoping it makes me go faster.

I'll be tweeting my way through the weekend if you want to follow along at home.

A More Hydrodynamic Upper Lip

If you follow me on Twitter you already know the news... I shaved the 'stasche. I was complaining about getting weird nose fulls of water and realized/decided that my mustache was to blame. So in the name of swimming it was sacrificed and I am now 'stasche free and much more hydrodynamic as you can see in my hasty cell phone picture above. I haven't seen my upper lip in years... kinda weird when you think about it. Come to think about, I don't think me and my chin have been acquainted since I got out of the Army at the beginning of 2004. Don't worry though the goatee isn't going anywhere, I'm way too lazy to shave my whole face on a regular basis.

Go Hard and Go Home

So I didn't have a lot of time to swim today so I made it worth my time.

400 freestlye
100 kick

6 x 100 choice @ 2:30 hard
(I did 2 IM, 1 Back, 3 Free)

100 cool down

1100 yards total

Definitely not an impressive yardage but I had places to be man. In all fairness I was on the verge of puking after that second 100 IM.

My backstroke was on fire tonight but I kept almost drowning out of the turns. I think my facial hair is trying to drown me! I've never had that problem when I swam in high school so I was trying to figure out what changed. As it turns out I didn't have a burly mustache when I was 14, I think its lack of hydrodynamical properties is working against me. I might have to shave the 'stache and keep the rest of my goatee!