Franiwack

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Saturday, October 14, 2006

tunnels i've actually skated

This guy just posted a new video of skating the Broadway and Stockton Tunnels in San Francisco on the Friday Night Skate. Yep, I've went through both of them with the group, just once though... not sure if I'll do it ever again. But thrilling, ain't it? =) Woooosh! Speed is good.

Monday, October 09, 2006

i can swim! sorta...

Hearst pool
6:00 - 7:30pm : so beautiful when swimming at sunset, though a bit colder today than usual

50 lengths = 25 laps = 1667 yards

Hmm, that's 0.95 mile in 1.5 hours => So that's about 0.63 mph, if you include breaks.

Still need breaks after every length, hopefully can build up to swimming more without stopping.

Alternating breathing on both sides now.

Saturday, October 07, 2006

practice makes perfect (or i'd rather procrastinate and not work)

Spieker pool
30 lengths = 15 laps = 750 yards
< 1 hour
slow lane (only cuz I had more space there)

Friday, October 06, 2006

swimming phase

Now that I'm unable to do two of my obsessions: rollerblading and jumproping, I've had to move on to something more feasible but difficult. And that would be: swimming.

I've never liked swimming. Sure I learned as a 7th and 8th grader just so I could graduate from Arcadia High, but everytime I tried swimming for fun after that resulted in complete suffering: feelings of drowning, coughing, swallowing chlorinated water,inability to breathe, water up the nose, struggling halfway in the pool, etc...

The last time I was even in a pool or a large body of water excluding my bathtub was at UCLA with Tammy years and years ago, and I didn't even do much then. But since my accident, I had to get off my fat butt and do some sort of exercise and since my favorite activities are out of the question (unfortunately for a very long time, damn ankle!), swimming seemed like the good option to me.

So last Saturday I ventured to take a water aerobics class at 10:30am. Old ladies kicked my ass in this class. I couldn't even tread water in the 7ft side of the pool! Let's not even get into trying to swim; everytime the class moved to the other end of the pool to do exercises, I was left behind in the dust.

Even after that, I resolved to give swimming a try. Luckily for me, the pool is so close to my apt that I even overwalked it the first time I tried finding it! And you know I ain't in no mood to overwalk anything nowadays. Anyhoo, the Hearst pool is just lovely. It's open a lot of hours and has a great view of the Campanile.

Tuesday
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10 lengths = 5 laps = 333 yards
~ 2 hours
SLOOOW lane, so slow that the slow people kept passing me! One lap, I got stuck in the middle and didn't move an inch.
Inability to do front crawl, managed a combo of breaststroke, backstroke, elementary backstroke and kickboard in order to make it across a pool that's 33 1/3 yards in length.
I had to take enormously long breaks in between also.

Wednesday
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14 lengths = 7 laps = 467 yards
~ 1.5 hours
Still the slow lane but now upgraded to occasional front crawl. Twas raining while I swam and the night was lovely. =) Thank goodness for 80 degree pool.

Thursday
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16 lengths = 8 laps = 533 yards
< 1 hours
Started out in the slow lane for a few laps then decided to scootch over to the medium lane. And found out that I went faster than the medium people, mostly because I still panic a lot in the water and anything that gets me faster to the other end so I can breathe is a good thing. Which isn't a good thing in the long run, since I end up so out of breath and dying by then. By now, the front crawl is my stroke of choice and I seem to have gotten better at coordinating the breathing.

Anyhoo, I seem to be improving a bit, so that keeps me psyched about going frequently now. =) I probably need a waterproof ipod to keep me going longer. But so far, I like it and hopefully I'll get healthier, my foot seems to like it.

And there's hot naked women in the shower room, what's not to like about swimming?

look at how cool skating down market street is!

Monday, October 02, 2006


sept 11, 2006: my two lovely ex-roomies Posted by Picasa


sept 11, 2006: my two lovely ex-roomies, goodness, where did all my hair go? Posted by Picasa


sept 20, 2006: the way to annoy everyone in evans with loud music =) Posted by Picasa


sept 24, 2006: cathy and me at crash, sf Posted by Picasa


sept 27, 2006: jasmine in her yellow mustang convertible Posted by Picasa


sept 27, 2006: my left sneaker in the condition they were untied by the cop or emt (i don't even remember) on july 9 Posted by Picasa


sept 30, 2006: keiji's lovely dinner at tomodachi, hayward Posted by Picasa


the most ginormous mango i've ever seen in my life Posted by Picasa

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