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January 5, 2009
A Pack of Monkeys
First of all, I had to ask O how to spell monkeys. I always get the "ys" stuff confused. Don't tell my mom. She's an English teacher.
Anyway, lately O and I have been consuming bananas at an alarming rate. Lots of bananas. Like LOTS of bananas. I don't think I truly noticed the extent of this banana-eating until O came home from the grocery store tonight. And one ENTIRE grocery bag was filled with bananas. Who eats that many bananas? Apparently us. Can't go wrong with a banana though - potassium, fiber, yellow. What more could you want? Easy on the stomach. Great with peanut butter. The monkeys are definitely on to something.
And anyway, what is a "collection" of monkeys called? A pack? A clan? A barrel? (and yes, I just asked O how to spell barrel - I was thinking double L at the end)
Enough of this madness.
Let's talk swimming.
This morning at masters 5x500. Yowzies! 1-3 descend, 4th one was broken at the 100s and then on the 5th one, 500 straight holding the pace you swam on the 100s. Considering I swam all 1:14s on the 100s, I was in some deep doodoo come the last 500. Monkey doodoo. But I pushed hard and even though I was convinced my arms were no longer attached to my body, I swam a near 500 PR. No, it wasn't a 6:10 (1:14 pace), but still good! Great workout. Fun workout. Perhaps not as fun as a barrel of monkeys, but close! :)
I could bore you with the details of the rest of my day (work, the YMCA to lift where I stumbled across "free" lotion in the locker room?, etc...) but I won't. Instead, I'm going to bed! Good night all, and have a wonderful Tuesday!
Posted by beth at January 5, 2009 10:15 PM
Comments
GREAT job on the swim! 5 X 500 is a gut check, literally! :) You are TOTALLY a swimmer now! :)
Posted by: marit c-l at January 6, 2009 10:33 AM
Awesome swim, Beth!
Posted by: Bri Gaal at January 6, 2009 12:13 PM
hey beth, awesome swim! peanut butter and banana sandwiches are my favorite!
Posted by: esther at January 6, 2009 1:06 PM
Wow, that sounds tough. 500's are beastly!
Yum, peanut butter/almond butter on bananas with oatmeal. Yummy in my tummy.
Posted by: julia at January 6, 2009 1:21 PM
Free lotion at the Y? Yeah we probably don't want to know about that. :(
Posted by: Mike D at January 6, 2009 4:39 PM