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What events will you race in Florida?

Thanks Ellen! I did some lurking and watched your backstroke swims at Indy. Nice job!! Glad you had a great meet and enjoyed yourself.

In case I forget to tell you this closer to the meet, good luck at Pan-Ams!

Thanks! It will be nice just to get away.

Have fun at the Pan Am's!

Hey Steve,

Won't be going to that one. A few of us are heading to Sarasota for the Pan Am games in a couple of weeks. It will be more of a family vacation with a little swimming mixed in. I am not a great LCM swimmer, I need my walls. We don't have anywhere to train LCM so it is hard for me to get pumped about it.

From reading your blog your training seems to be going well and you remain healthy. Lookin pretty fast Steve.

Hi Joel, hope all is well.

Hey, Will you be going to Athens GA, Classic City LCM next month?

I might go - it's a one day'er and a good preparation for Greenville's LCM.

Originally Posted by __steve__

You have your priorities straight.
Something I need to remanage many times, as it's easy to accidentally slip away from the real important things in life.

Amen brother!

You have your priorities straight.
Something I need to remanage many times, as it's easy to accidentally slip away from the real important things in life.

Thanks for the encouragement. I have done a fairly descent job in NOT getting too frustrated with it all. I wouldn't miss my childrens events for anything and work is work. I know that everyone goes through times like these occasionally. One day at a time.

One thing I have learned is that dryland work does not, can not, and will never take the place of pool work.

It is great to read that you are getting going again. Nice workout. No doubt you are making your best effort, and we all know that it can be difficult to swim consistently at times with work and family life. The time when I have that same struggle is usually in summers when the kids are on break from school but going in a what seems like a 100 different directions each week.

We will be traveling down on Wed for me to swim Thursday through Sunday and then coming back home on Mon. I am bringing the wife and our two girls and plan on taking one of those days completely off for a family day w/no swimming. That all depends on if we do relays or not.

I'll get up with you when we get a little closer to June.

Originally Posted by joel schmaltz

Will you be swimming in the Pan Am games in Sarasota?

Yes, I will be there for the 800M FR and the 3K OW. Let's connect if you will also be there during that time. I will have my daughter with me, perhaps also my son, but my wife has used all her PTO and will have to be at work.

Thanks!! 35-70 days! That's crazy. It has been a wild couple of weeks for me wearing more hats and trying to help the wife out. Work has been my biggest obstacle. This is a busy time of year for me.
You are right, I will get it all back soon enough.
I appreciate the encouragement.

Will you be swimming in the Pan Am games in Sarasota?

Glad you are back! We all must do what we have to do. Training in the Summer is more challenging for me when my kids are out of school and the SWF thunder-lightening storms. I handle it better now, but sometimes would miss 30-75 days! I hope that you are flu recovered 100%. Once you build up training momentum again you will pick up from where you were before.

I hope you are right. My truck stays outside and I have had pollen on my hood for about a week now. It has only been the last couple of years that I have had allergy issues. I guess I am lucky. Most people are absolutely miserable with allergy problems.

Hopefully it's just allergy and not the crud. Even though it's still bitter cold down here, the yellow pine dust has already started covering surfaces, which is a sign the the other antigenic pollens may be out there also.

South american as in jack dempsy? Is the blue one a haplochromis ahli? I had a breeding pair once

Yes. I have African and S American cichlids in a 120 gal tank. My girls each have 30 gal tanks in their rooms. My big tank is MUCH easier to keep clean and cichlids are low maintainence fish.

Are those your pets in your avitar?

I'm considering setting up a tank again, maybe. What keeps me from proceeding are memories of ecosystem meltdown after returning from vacation.