Sunday swim

One of the nice things about swimming on Sunday is that parking is free until 13:00 as another way for the state to support Christianity—or any other religion that happens to have church services on Sunday mornings.

Approximate workout in 25-yard pool:

• warm-up: breast stroke 50 yards and front crawl 50 yards, repeated: 200 yards
• five-position sculling with hand paddles 50 yards x 2: 100 yards
• five-position sculling without hand paddles, 50 yards
• three-position sculling with paddles and pull-buoys, with a partner, 4 alternate lengths of towing and being towed: 50 yards of sculling
• front crawl with hand paddles, 50 yards x 3: 150 yards
• front crawl, 25 yards x 4: 100 yards
• cool-down: any stroke: 2 lengths side stroke, 1 length front crawl, 1 length side stroke: 100 yd.

Total, 750 yd.

Worked on vertical hand position in sculling, stroke timing and recovery with breathing in crawl.

When I came out of the community centre, gulls were flapping down the street like loose sheets of newsprint. I heard an Eastern White-throated sparrow nearby. I might even have caught a glimpse of it: there was something unusual foraging in the spruce buds.