No more LAC Masters
LAC Masters swim team will be no more as of March 20th, 2009.
This kinda sucks, because it is one week before Zones, but I am already training on my own once or twice a week. The question is, can I train hard on my own all the time, or do I need the team practices to keep my consistency.
I have the following options. The CAC pool has a team that trains there 3 times a week, and if we joined there, it would eliminate the need for our Lifetime Fitness membership. Lifetime has a team, but the setup Lifetime has for the team is so pathetic it isn’t even a consideration. The final team option, and by far the best option as far as teams go, is to join DAM and swim at their Southlake practices.
DAM has a very large team, and the Southlake practices typically have 8 lanes with about 3 people a lane. That is 24 people regularly showing up to practice compared to LACs 5 people. The downside to swimming at Southlake? It is more than 30 minutes away, and the practice is at 5:15. I already am used to getting up at 4:30, but what I am not used to is having to get ready in a gym locker room for work and not being able to cook a hot breakfast for myself. Spoiled am I.
The alternative, and likely choice at least initially, is to workout at Lifetime from 4:30 until 5:45 every morning. No one is using the pool at that hour, so lane space is not a problem, and I can get out and get back to the house to shower for work and eat a hot breakfast and still make it to work by 7am.
Brook and I would really like to swim with a team, and Brook is strongly considering CAC. I have kind of already discarded it because I don’t think the intensity will be there, but this is an area where more research would easily change my mind.
As for Southlake. Next Saturday I am planning on swimming with DAM in Southlake (next Friday is my last LAC practice), and that will determine if I think it is feasible. If it is, I will probably check out a Sunday practice at SMU, just for fun, and then finish out the month practicing in Southlake in the mornings and getting ready there to gage if I think I can tolerate doing that on a regular basis. Practice is over at 6:30, and Southlake pool is only about 10 minutes from work, so I would not be adding to my commute.
Now if I could afford a nice house close to the Southlake pool, it would be a done deal. Brook would become a full time trophy wife, and living in Southlake would decrease her commute to the salon and spa, and I could train 5x/week and still enjoy a hot breakfast and a nice shower before work.
Since afford and Southlake don’t go well together at this current time, Brook will continue to be a full time veterinarian and a part time trophy wife and the most likely scenerio will be that I train at Lifetime for a while.
Lotto Texas is at $28 million, maybe I will invest a dollar.