Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

In any given situation we often have a choice to react positively ("I learned a lesson!") or to react negatively ("this totally sucks and I am going to dwell on it!") An example might be if the plumber came to your house and had to rip up the wall-to-wall carpet in the basement and break through the floor to get to the drain. The negative in you would cry into the hole in the floor yelling "why?!" but the positive in you would realize you needed to clean the basement anyway. Hypothetical situations aside, this morning Hubbard, Joel, and I swam with Jackie, an 18 year old MIT student. We quickly calculated that our average age was 30 years older than our new friend, which had the potential to bring us down and make us complain about our aches and pains. Truth be told, we were likely the same age as her parents. Then again, we were swimming with an 18 year old. That alone was enough to bolster our spirits. And for Jackie, the negative of getting out of bed so early (she is a college student for heaven's sake) was overshadowed by the funny old people she got to swim with.

200 warmup
4 x 25 free :15r
150 kick/drill/swim
4 x 25 free fast :15r
150 kick/drill/swim
4 x 25 drill :15r
150 kick/drill/swim
18 x 50 going:
1-2 choice on :60
3-5 fast on :40
6-7 choice on1:05
8-11 fast on :40
12-13 choice on 1:10
14-18 fast on :40
Twice through:
125 on 1:55
125 fast on 1:35
125 on 1:55
125 fast on 1:35
2 x 25 easy :40
50 sprint :40
2 x 25 easy :45
repeat