Back at the Gym!! In a Pool!!

I've been using the small weight room at the college where I currently teach once or twice a week for a few months (where I ran on the treadmill this winter), and I lift the other days at home. And through this past winter, I also regularly popped into the gym of a college where I used to teach to get in some weights as well.

But yesterday, the boys and I got a gym membership for the first time since Covid hit! And this morning, I went for my first pool swim since losing access at the U of M in mid-August last year.

Just after hopping out (after sharing a lane with that guy).


The pool complex from the walking track upstairs. It's GREAT that there's
an oval pool for the old folks to walk in to keep the lap pool more open!


1200 yards total. 200 easy, 200 hard, 200 easy, 200 hard,
4x75 kicking with a board, and 100 cooldown.

That was just a "testing the waters" sort of a swim. I need to see how my (still sore from an injury in Dec) shoulder will react to this. I didn't hurt anything WHILE swimming, so now it's about feeling it out for the rest of the day and tomorrow.

My wife has joked that it's "Swole Stenzel Summer" because the boys want to go and lift weights at the gym with me!! :) I'm looking forward to it!!

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