Ian Goes Swimming! 🌈 🏊🏻‍♂️

5 min warmup, 30 mins eggbeaters with hands out the water, forward reverse, in water lunges and then laps of head up freestyle and sit down backstroke. Good workout!

90 mins of water polo and this time an actual 24 min scrimmage. So much fun! And tiring

A week ago I spent 4 days about 3 hours per day snorkeling. Think: duck diving every couple of minutes, treading water for hours. Excellent workout! But have needed a week off to recover…

After 80 mins of water polo class yesterday, including drills, defensive skills and passing, and a brief scrimmage at the end, all I could manage today in open swim was 30 minutes of treading water…

Also love my new NZ WP suit from Turbo. Don’t love the tariffs on it though.

2700yds of water polo and swim drills. Deconstructing the distance freestyler and IM and rebuilding sprint and core. It’s been 25 years since last I played…

Started playing water polo so today’s set was 2600 yds mixed swim and WaPo drills. It’s harder than it looks, and reprogramming a distance swimmer isn’t the easiest!

First water polo class today; 80 mins of treading water and de-constructing good distance swimming form. I’m tired… I don’t think my hips will ever be the same again…

First time playing water polo in 15 years tomorrow… hope I don’t break.

2600yds in our concrete bunker pool (boo), a mix of distance free and distance IM. Had to take it easy since I burned myself in the kitchen last night and probably shouldn’t have been swimming.

Any Dryland recommendations for #waterpolo? Starting again after 15 years…

A quick 2000yd after two weeks out of the pool. I’ve put on 8lbs in that time thanks to lots of carbs and sitting around with mum. Got to trim down for water polo which starts in 2 weeks.

Not pool swimming but a workout! Collecting urchins for our project on their diseases on Oahu over the last couple of days. Try a 100 followed by duck diving to pry animals off the sea floor for an hour, followed by a 100 back… all in 5’ swells. Didn’t log on my app but exhausted!

2500m in the pool yesterday to cap off outdoor swimming in Ithaca for the season! I’ve managed 40 miles in the two months that our outdoor Olympic pool is open, and got the tan lines to prove it! Back to the underground bunker for the rest of the year, sigh.

Did it! 25 miles and change with 4 days to go!! So thankful to my sponsors! I’m going to keep going until Aug 1…

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Another 3500 today in Boulder; was going great splitting lane with another person until a slow poke wanted to circle swim. Oh well. Still got there 3000m to go before I meet my goal for the American Cancer Society!

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3500m today at altitude! 33500 of the 40200m goal for the month! Wasn’t easy dodging t’storms today but made it!

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Another 3100m at altitude today, which brings it to 30,000m out of the 40300m goal. Will I make it?

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Altitude training for the next 5 days! In Boulder co, 5340ft. 2600m today, all free and water polo like with 5 people each lane! 26900 of the 40300 to go. Will try my best though the lack of 02 is def noticeable.

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Very solid 3100 m mostly backstroke today at our lovely Cass Park Pool as part of my charity swim for the American Cancer Society! Had to take a couple of days off to rest a shoulder but back to it! Total so far is 20,200m of the 40,233m I’m aiming for (25 miles).

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3100m in the pool today for my cancer charity swim. At the end had some time to work on turns, which despite my years in the pool totally suck. Anyone got any hints or tips or tricks for how to make me keep my arms in? I flail a lot…video is mid-water but same on the walls

Another 3000m, only 28830m to go for my cancer charity swim marathon this month. Mix of mid dist free and IM. Nice to be out in the sunshine!

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Amazing 3000m freestyle set in the sunshine!