Chilled but happy

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The air temperature dropped below 40 degrees this morning. I can’t tell you exactly what the water temperature was, but I’d guess 82. I thought I’d document those that attended so they can claim bragging rights.

At least until Wednesday when it’s supposed to be REALLY cold.

Twelve people in the water getting it done.

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Rebecca feigning enthusiasm.

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Megan and Lauri staying low in the water in lane 1.

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Ryan and Lee swimming gold in lane 2.

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Dwayne, Rebecca, and Shawn swimming silver in lane 3. Shawn is mentally already on a beach in Indonesia.

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Hillari and Dan swimming bronze today in lane 4.

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Yinn, Jim and Jeff swimming iron in lane 5.

Thanks to Pete, we have a toasty-warm heater during the workout.

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Thanks to gallon Ziploc bags, you can make many things water resistant. Unfortunately, this was the only clock we had today, since the big pace clock is afraid of water these days.20181008_060659

Ideas for dealing with close quarters

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Our last scheduled day at Sunset is currently Saturday, October 13. What happens after then? I don’t know.

It’s possible that morning masters gets some time at the Rec Center. But how many days? How many lanes? I don’t know. If I had to guess, the answers would be:

a) fewer than we get now, and
b) fewer than we get now.

So what can we do? I’m working on ideas for how we might be able to conduct fun and useful workouts with just 2 or 3 lanes. I’ll throw one out there to get the discussion going:

Use two lanes. Normal(-ish) warm-up using both lanes. Main set consists of 25 sprints in one lane, with recovery 25s in the second lane.

What is the most important aspect of a masters workout that you would like to see continue, in spite of time and space constraints? What do you think might work? Leave a suggestion in the comments.