Swimming and Poker (not simultaneously)

Tonight after poker I went for a swim... tried to see if I could do 500m straight... and I can! It took me 11 minutes to do 500m, which is I think the fastest pace I've done yet since I started training over the last ~3 years. I'm pretty excited about this. Considering my next couple triathlons (Bartlett Lake in March and Spring Fling in NM in April) are both 400m swims... I think I can jump out to a good start this season (well, at least on the swim legs).

The TT coming up on Saturday should give me some idea about how I am on the bike now. The last time I went for a ride outside though, was not good. I was only riding for about 2 minutes, not putting that much effort in really, when I just got completely out of breath. The lack of breath was way beyond the effort, so I got a bit scared. I believe it was exercise induced asthma, and I'm hoping it was only caused by the cold air that day (which wasn't that cold really... but in the 40s or 50s). Today I had a doctors appointment, and after explaining it the doctor agreed that it sounded like it was exercise induced asthma... maybe from the cold, or from some other allergen. I got an inhaler just in case it happens again... I will have to make sure to bring this with me when I exercise now (even though I already forgot to tonight).

And at poker I ended up taking 4th tonight. I didn't really do much... had an early double up and then was mostly just level until the final 5 or 6. I took one big pot to last a bit more, but just kept losing chips here and there... didn't pick up my flush on one hand that I could've probably tripled up on. At the end I was down to <4 BB on the BB, and I was put all in before the flop, and I just called in the dark. Both the other players called as well, and the flop came 778. SB went all in as the big stack, and both the others called that too. SB had 88 for the boat, I flipped mine which were AQo... not bad for calling dark, but hosed here :). One guy was on a straight draw, and the other had pocket Aces. No miracles happened and the boat held up to knock the 3 of us out and end the tournament.