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Dude, check out apple.com.

• New 20GB iPods
• New iPod software update
• New iTunes update with podcast directory

Just like Steve announced at WWDC.

Swim practice today was extreme. After our running in the rain, we swam 5500 yards. But it wasn’t focused on distance - our main set was 34×100’s @ 1:30, where you have to hold a 1:10 or faster for each hundred (that was just for my lane though, the fastest interval was 1:25 holding 1:05’s). Andrew and I had been in the same lane, but after the 9th 100 Kate moved us into lanes next to each other so we could race. She also said that for every time I beat Andrew, he has to do a 100 fly. I tried to beat him, but after a 50 I decided to save it for later because my respiratory system was starting to give out (I still have gunk in my lungs), and I was afraid that even if I did beat him my I’d miss the 1:10 on the next hundred. At number 27, I finally beat him. By about 12 inches. When Kate told him that he has to do a 100 fly, he got so mad that he sprinted the next 100 and beat me by about five seconds. Then Kate told me that if he beats me by that much again, I’ll have to do a 100 fly too. I got so mad about that that I sprinted the next 100, and he still beat me, but not as much as before (he was still sprinting from number 28). At that point, there were four 100’s left and I was starting to get 1:12’s. Kate said she’d make me do a 100 fly for each one that I don’t make the 1:10 on, so I sprinted the last 4 and I think I made them all, but after that I could barely breath for the first 100 of our 200 cooldown. Andrew didn’t have to do the 100 fly in the end, because Kate said he worked it off in the last few 100’s. Luckily, I didn’t have to either. Every muscle in my body is hurting now, so I think I’ll go take a nap.

I revised the graphics of my Time Converter widget, which you can download from my Software page (if you have Mac OS X 10.4). I made an Aqualicious reflection on the front panel, and added a back panel. I also made the icon look 3D (you can see it on the Software page).
I submitted it to the Apple website today, so it’ll probably be up by Wednesday. Not that I think there are very many swimmers using Tiger, but at least I can say I’ve contributed to the unending stream of Dashboard widgets being developed.

We had a 5500 meter morning swim practice with Corvallis today, from 7:30 to 10:00, and we did half an hour of dryland. It was hard, because Kate was making us do 3 sets of 10 pullups. The swimming was hard too, even though the intervals were easy. Our main set was 6×50’s @ 1:10, 3×100’s @ 2:00, 6:50’s @ 1:20, 3×100’s @ 2:00, two times through. The 50’s were sprint, and they all have to be the same stroke, and the 100’s were recovery. I did the first set all freestyle, and the second set fly. My arms were dead after the fly. And my lungs are still filled with mucus a little bit from being sick, so I was having trouble breathing.
We got out of the locker rooms at 10:20, because we helped Corvallis take out the lane lines (and because Andrew was doing an abominable job of driving the laneline roller upper!).

We swam 7100 yards (4.45 miles) at swim practice today, and we also ran as part of dryland. We did 8 laps around the Block Of Grass, descend 1-4, 5-8. Then we did dryland inside for a few minutes, and got in the pool 15 minutes early. Our main set was this:

8×50’s @ 45
4×100’s @ 1:20
2×200’s @ 2:25

And we do that 3 times. At the end, my side was hurting so badly it hurt to take a breath.
We have morning practice tomorrow in Corvallis, 7:30 to 10:00. It’s going to be hard!

Today was the first day of a summer of morning practices. Kate switched the Senior 1 and Senior 2 schedules around, so now everyone has practice from 6:00 to 8:30am, and the Senior 2’s also have practice from 6:00 to 7:30pm.

The hardest just got harder.

We had an hour of dryland this morning, and then an hour and a half of swimming. The dryland was harder than the swimming! When I got in for the warmup, I felt how I usually feel when I’m doing a cooldown after a hard practice.

Also, I just got my ribbons from the last two meets - one 1st place for my 50 free in Albany, two 2nds, one for my 200 fly in Albany and one for our 400 free relay in Mt. Hood, one 6th for my 400 free in Albany, and one 8th for my 800 free in Mt. Hood.

Store Wars - you gotta see this!

Today we went on the Watermelon Ride, a 50, 100, 125, or 200 mile bike ride. I did the 50 mile version. There was a food stop at the 25 mile point, and food at the end. Lots of watermelons. I think it took us about 3 hours. And we got to cross a ferry at one point.

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I had a swim meet yesterday, in Mt. Hood. I swam the 200 free, 100 back, and 800 free. In the 200 free, I got a Sectional time of 2:21.16 and tied down to the hundredth of a second with the guy next to me. We got 11th out of 39 people. In the 100 backstroke, I got 1:18.67, which is a 3 second improvement from last time. We also had a 400 freestyle relay, with me, Adam, Nathanial, and then Andrew, in which we missed our event. But they let us swim in an empty lane in the next event. We got 4:34.19, and our splits were 1:05.15 for me, 1:09.09 for Adam, 1:13.03 for Nathanial, and 1:06.89 for Andrew. Andrew said his goggles opened up and filled with water when he dove in.
The 800 free was interesting - Adam, Andrew and I were in the same heat, and several things happened: my suit came untied at about the 300 point and was restricting me from pushing off my walls at full-power so I ended up getting 10:35.53 (which is seven seconds off my best time), Adam thought the other guy was me so he sprinted the whole way, and Andrew swam it fly-free by 50’s (Kate originally wanted him to just do a 400 fly and then get out, but then she gave him the choice to do it 200 fly 200 free, it got narrowed down to 100 fly 100 free, and eventually turned into 50 fly 50 free).

I just finished writing a command line program I’m been working on for a few days called Portfolio. It lets you enter in information about an unlimited number of websites that you have administration access to, such as URL, name, date of creation, etc. You can download the source code from my software page.

My iPod hath been repaired. It looks like Apple either sent me a refurbished iPod, or replaced the outer casing with a refurbished one. Either way is fine - the scratches on the metal backing are gone, and (most importantly), my iPod starts up properly. Also, the custom engraving on the back is still there, so that’s good. It came just in time, because we have a swim meet this weekend, and I can only imagine what would happen if I dared to face the consequences of showing for a meet without my iPod…