I Love Cleveland in the Springtime

You’ve gotta love Cleveland: I made it home just in time to catch the home plate argument between Wedge, Hargrove and the umps over when the snow had gotten just a bit too bad for the Indians home opener.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could get the worst home opener weather record and the coldest World Series game records?

I have to admit that the fans and the players at today’s game are tougher than I am. It’s too miserable outside right now for me to run out to the car. In fact, as I drove past Target on my way home, I thought about stopping to pick up enough gall to actually go running in this stuff!

As promised and planned, I swam after work (we were released at 3:30 p.m., but I couldn’t get out until 4ish) for about an hour and 3,600 yards (~2 miles):

• 1,000 yards free
• 5 x 200 yards IM alt. free
• 10 x 100 yards assorted flavors:
• 4 x 100 yards IM order
• 4 x 100 yards free
• 2 x 100 yards IM
• 500 yards free
• 100 yards free warm down

It dawned on me that while I have had a pretty decent swimming week (10,700 yards ~6.1 miles), I’ve really only swum as much as I used to swim in a single practice! But that was years ago when I was a young whipper-snapper. On the plus side, it has collectively been about the same amount of time. Just spread across several days. That's not so bad.

Now, if I could just not get too removed from running. I’m really glad right now that I pushed myself to run Sunday through Wednesday. I’ve really lost the nerve I had back in January and February when I was running on those frost-warning nights. But that might not be such a bad thing!

The weather doesn't look promising for the weekend, and I may have to go back on my anti-track movement. More news as it happens.