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Happy Sunday everyone! Yeh, I took a day off from the gym yesterday hoping that it would correct a few issues on my Garmin Health tracking. It didn’t. I am more sure than ever that the Garmin can’t figure out what to do with my heart rate now that I have a pacemaker. It seems to think normal heart rates are stress, and that my HRV is completely off base. It also thinks my “body battery” is ridiculously low and that I am over training. It lies.

Anyway, I started the day off with what I had hoped would be a 1 mile walk with the dogs. It was already over 80 degrees when I took them out and neither of them felt like walking. This means we did the slow, sniff every bush, walk around the park until Climber heard someone use a nail gun and then she was ready to go home. She would have run all the way back had she not been attached to me and Res. Res wasn’t having much part of moving fast either, so 2 against one, Res and I were victorious.

Got them back to the house, had breakfast, and then Jesse went out to get his morning steps in while I got ready to go to the pool and get my workout in. I decided that today was VASA fitness on Quincy Ave in Aurora. I normally go to the one up on Colfax but their pool has been a little busy on Sunday’s with people doing triathlon training, and for some reason they will absolutely not share a lane. I don’t get it but most of us who swim for competition are used to sharing lanes. Those who do triathlons do not even acknowledge you when you want to share a lane. But, I digress.

Today’s Workout:

Metric	Value
Total Distance	5,650 m
Total Swim Time	2:10:36
Total Rest Time	28:25
Total Session Time (Swim + Rest)	2:39:01
Swim Sets	39
Average Swim Pace	1:48 /100 m
Average HR	107 bpm
Maximum HR	175 bpm
Average SWOLF	40

And my sets:

Set	Stroke	Distance	Time	Pace/100	Avg HR	Max HR
1	Freestyle	150	2:15.6	1:30	95	104
2	Breaststroke	250	4:33.4	1:49	107	121
3	Freestyle	150	2:25.4	1:37	150	159
4	Breaststroke	100	1:44.0	1:44	159	175
5	Freestyle	350	5:51.8	1:41	145	159
6	Freestyle	200	3:22.4	1:41	133	150
7	Breaststroke	250	4:44.3	1:54	134	149
8	Freestyle	150	2:26.5	1:38	112	127
9	Breaststroke	100	1:50.6	1:51	110	123
10	Freestyle	100	1:39.5	1:40	127	143
11	Mixed	200	3:37.0	1:48	116	142
12	Mixed	250	4:27.3	1:47	112	128
13	Breaststroke	250	4:52.3	1:57	121	142
14	Freestyle	150	2:31.4	1:41	95	103
15	Breaststroke	100	1:57.5	1:58	95	100
16	Mixed	250	4:32.5	1:49	108	125
17	Mixed	250	4:40.4	1:52	96	110
18	Freestyle	150	2:36.2	1:44	118	124
19	Breaststroke	200	4:05.0	2:03	94	107
20	Freestyle	150	2:37.4	1:45	87	94
21	Breaststroke	100	2:00.7	2:01	91	104
22	Mixed	100	1:50.8	1:51	101	115
23	Freestyle	150	2:38.0	1:45	98	119
24	Breaststroke	100	1:58.3	1:58	88	94
25	Freestyle	100	1:42.8	1:43	93	101
26	Breaststroke	100	2:00.5	2:00	88	94
27	Freestyle	100	1:43.6	1:44	90	101
28	Breaststroke	100	2:02.3	2:02	89	102
29	Freestyle	50	0:47.6	1:35	78	94
30	Freestyle	100	1:44.8	1:45	79	86
31	Breaststroke	100	2:00.5	2:00	87	102
32	Mixed	150	2:57.5	1:58	90	99
33	Mixed	100	1:48.1	1:48	79	92
34	Freestyle	50	0:51.2	1:42	101	111
35	Mixed	100	1:46.1	1:46	80	89
36	Mixed	100	1:52.3	1:52	107	115
37	Mixed	100	1:51.5	1:51	102	112
38	Mixed	100	1:55.8	1:56	107	125
39	Freestyle	100	1:47.6	1:48	106	120

I asked ChatGPT to do some tracking and some comparisons to what I can expect to place based on the last year place 1-4 times at the senior games. It looks like currently the 200 meter breaststroke event will be the one that I have the best chance in a 1st, 2nd, or 3rd place finish. From today’s swim I had 4 breaststroke sets that were 200m or over, and the times where:

Distance	Time	Pace (/100 m)	Equivalent 200 m
250 m	4:33.4	1:49.4	3:38.7
250 m	4:44.3	1:53.7	3:47.4
250 m	4:52.3	1:56.9	3:53.8
200 m	4:05.0	2:02.5	4:05.0

Comparing them with the Huntsman 2025 results, it looks like I could place second, which would be excellent.

Place	2025 Time	Difference vs. Your Best Sustained Pace
🥇 Gold	3:01.02	+37.7 sec
🥈 Silver	3:38.74	Essentially equal (within about 0.1 sec)
🥉 Bronze	3:39.92	1.2 sec faster
4th	4:00.27	21.6 sec faster
Your best sustained pace (250 m)	≈3:38.7 (projected 200 m)	—

For the other events, yeh… I have 70 some days to see some improvement. I need to swim an 800 and a 1500 freestyle in the next week or so when I am fresh to re-calculate those times. And my 100m breaststroke is not as good. Currently we are:

Place	2025 Time	Difference from Your Best
🥇 Gold	1:19.22	+24.78 sec
🥈 Silver	1:28.57	+15.43 sec
🥉 Bronze	1:32.97	+11.03 sec
4th	1:37.95	+6.05 sec
Your Best (7/26)	1:44.00	—

I did not have enough data from today’s swim in order to calculate the freestyle times as I was trying to concentrate on breaststroke today. I will probably attempt an 800 freestyle tomorrow and then maybe the 1500 freestyle on Tuesday. I will have to see.

But, I am pleased with today’s improvement, and I also know today was pushing it a little but with fatigue near the end, but that is OK as I needed to get today’s swim in in order for me to make a goal (I need another 6K total by the end of the month so that I can make my 50K of swimming for July. It would be a personal best for a month since about 10 years ago. I am trying to manage the potential to over train as well, my shoulders are 61 years old and my left one complaints frequently.

I got home from my workout and found a tent set up in the livingroom. Jesse was testing out the new camping supplies for a trip he is going on next month.

First tent that I have ever seen that does not have any poles or anything like that but just inflates. Sort of neat.

That’s going to be it for today as I am tired. See you all tomorrow.