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Today's workout mix was the one I've been waiting to do for a long time. The theme is "what keeps me up at night." Putting this mix together took a couple trips to the library to get some music I didn't have, 3 individual purchases on iTunes when I couldn't wait any longer for the CD's I had on hold to be returned to the library, and one part of an afternoon downloading Audacity software and learning how to use it so I could create a clean version of a song with lots of obvious swearing. (We swim at a pool in a local middle school, and it's best not to rock the boat and lose our music privileges.)
So here it is, I give you...
Money For Nothing, Dire Straits, Brothers In Arms
Big Spender, Queen, Live at Wembley 86 (Disc 2)
She Works Hard For The Money, Donna Summer, Respect [Disc 4]
Taxman, The Beatles, Revolver [2009 Stereo Remaster]
Money, Alan Cumming & The Kit Kat Girls, Cabaret: The New Broadway Cast Recording (1998 Broadway Revival)
Take The Money And Run, Steve Miller Band, Take the Money and Run
9 to 5, Dolly Parton, Beach Week II: The Wrath of Finney
Why Don't You Get A Job? , The Offspring, Americana
Two Tickets To Paradise, Eddie Money, The Best Of Eddie Money
Strapped For Cash, Fountains Of Wayne, Traffic And Weather
We're in the Money (From "42nd Street"), John Lesko, 42nd Street - Original Broadway Cast Recording
What Do You Do for Money Honey, AC/DC, Back in Black
Material Girl, Madonna, The Immaculate Collection
Life In The Fast Lane, Eagles, Hotel California
I'm Broke, Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears, Tell 'Em What Your Name Is!
Gold Digger , Kanye West & Jamie Foxx, Late Registration
Ring of Fire, Johnny Cash
You Can't Always Get What You Want, Rolling Stones, Let It Bleed
Can't Buy Me Love, The Beatles, 1962-1966 (Disc 1)
Puttin' On The Ritz, Ella Fitzgerald, Sings the Irving Berlin Song Book [Complete]
Money (That's What I Want), The Flying Lizards, The Wedding Singer Volume 2: More Music From The Motion Picture
Money, Pink Floyd, Dark Side Of The Moon
Pay For What You Get, Dave Matthews Band, Under The Table And Dreaming
Low Budget, The Kinks, Low Budget (Remastered)
We also had a great workout today. I did 3875 yards, which is a super lot for me. Padding the FLOG, baby! (Also, getting the yardage in while I can, our pool is closed from July 23rd until after Labor Day. After that, I don't know where I'll go.)
25 dive start
500 free, 100 stroke in the middle
400 reverse IM (25 kick / 50 drill / 25 stroke of each )
3x100 (25 back / 75 build free)
2x50 from the black line (1 free, 1 stroke)
4x125 pull (25 no breath / 75 free / 25 stroke)
2x250 (50 stroke / 150 free / 50 stroke)
2x100 kick
3x200 (2nd & 4th 50 fast)
2x100 kick
3x150 (fast 100 in the middle)
100 warm down
Hands down, the best part of the workout was the skulling. For some reason, I have a kick-ass skull technique. I think it came from growing up as someone who played around in the pool, not a competitive swimmers, so I taught myself a lot of ways to get around by floating. Also, I took a water aerobics class in college from the syncro instructor. But I actually got a compliment on it from Coach, so that was wow. Now if only I could get paid to do it...
Recovery day does not mean sleep in just easy swimming for me.
10x100@1:45 Free
1000 Free kick w/fins odd 100's easy even 100's FAST
3x[100@1:45 Free w/snorkle, paddles & bouy
....[200@3:30 Free w/snorkle, paddles & bouy
100 Free w/snorkle, paddles & bouy EASY
2x200@4:00 Fly w/fins as 50 Rt arm/50 Lt arm/50 streamline kick on back/50 sprint
200 Free easy w/fins
Total 3600 meters
My workout on Monday was fishing! I caught six bass fish! I suppose I got a little bit of an upper body workout pulling those guys out of the water.
Today, did an 18 mile bike ride. Felt pretty rested after my 2 days off, so was able to do the ride in about 58 minutes. I discovered a wonderful drink today that works well and one I never would have thought of - plain old Coca-Cola. I felt pretty good during the ride, so maybe this is a new training drink for me!
Update: Without even knowing it, I just came across a study mentioning Coca-Cola as the favored sports drink for cyclists! http://www.sportsci.org/news/news9711/martin.html
Updated July 7th, 2010 at 12:17 AM by elise526
Back to work today. What a weekend. I hope you all had a great weekend. Between Friday and Monday, I swam at Lake Minnewaska thrice. On the second visit, on Saturday afternoon, I swam my 200th mile for the year!* My goodness if Minnewaska isn't the most beautiful place to go for a casual dip.
Today at the pool, I made a playlist for the end of the holiday: a mix of celebrating America and the summer. I finished it up with "Back on the Chain Gang" because now it's all 5-day workweeks until Labor Day. (I've been at my job less than a year, so I have no vacation time saved up, I used my one allotted day on the Middlebury swim meet, and it was worth it, darn it.)
Summertime, Fitzgerald, Ella, First Lady of Song [CD2]
One Headlight, The Wallflowers, Bringing Down The Horse
America, Paul Simon, Concert In The Park, August 15, 1991 (Disc 2)
A Horse With No Name, America, Entertainment Weekly: The Greatest Hits - 1972
American Girl, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Greatest Hits
Lump, The Presidents Of The United States Of America, The Presidents Of The United States Of America
Surf Wax America, Weezer, Weezer (Deluxe Edition) - CD 1
America, Neil Diamond
Dancing In The Dark, Bruce Springsten, Born In the USA
Walk Of Life, Dire Straits, Brothers In Arms
American Idiot, Green Day, American Idiot
Hot Stuff, Donna Summer, The All Time Greatest Movie Songs CD2
Hot Pants Pt. 1, James Brown, R&B Deluxe
Junebug, The B-52's, Cosmic Thing
Here Comes The Hotstepper (Pret-A-Porter), Ini Kamoze, The All Time Greatest Movie Songs CD2
Too Darn Hot, Fitzgerald, Ella, First Lady of Song [CD1]
Hot Cha, They Might Be Giants, Flood
Red Hot Pepper, Wynton Marsalis, Mr. Jelly Lord - Standard Time Vol. 6
Brown Eyed Girl, Van Morrison, Best Of Van Morrison
I Can See Clearly Now, Jimmy Cliff, The All Time Greatest Movie Songs CD2
Back On The Chain Gang, The Pretenders, Learning To Crawl
Despite this rockin' mix and all, I didn't swim much today, only a 1650. I was sore from stress, and the crushing fact of having to go back to work today. Tomorrow, during the team swim, I'll see if I can kick it in a little, because the thing I love the most about swimming is that it's when the real life can't touch me.
Also, over the weekend, all you crazy running people inspired me to see if I can run. I went 2.5 miles on the unfinished trail that connects the rail trail to the Walkway over the Hudson. It was a mix of running and walking, and it wasn't actually the worst thing in the entire world and I even went kind of fast, so I may try running again someday, as soon as my calves unknot themselves from this weekend's adventure.
*Some of my Go The Distance teammates & I have referred to extra-curricular non-workout swimming as padding the FLOG.
Use in a sentence: I just swam a personal best in the 200 Free! I'm going to warm down with a thousand so I can pad the FLOG.
Tue Jul 6th 2010
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whitney Coached
Austin UT Swim Center main pool
swam with Marcio, Tyler, Ritchie, Kelly, & Sharon
wore b 70 jammer
dove in on time
800 easy
assinged 4 rounds of
4 x 50 stroke
400 fr neg split
4 x 100 desc
200 neg split
did: 3 rounds
2 x 50 one easy one fast
200 easy
2 x 100 one easy one fast
100 easy
50 fl push 30,
50 bk push 31,
50 br dive 36
100 fl fr dive 1:03
100 bk fr 1:07
July 8 - 11, 2010
Senior Circuit #4 Meet Info
Austin, TX
50 Freestyle
100 Butterfly
50 backstroke
200 Individual Medley
50 breastroke, &
50 butterfly
07/23/10 - 07/25/10
2010 South Central Long Course
Southlake, Texas
Days till LCM ZONES
Entered Zones yesterday & got my hotel
Twice through. Round 1 intervals left, round 2 right.
1 X 200 kick 5:00
3 X 100 kick 2:30
6 X 200 free 3:20
1-2: moderate
3-4: negative split
5-6: fast
2 X 100 moderate 2:00
1 X 100 fast 3:30
Four times through.
Moderate 100's: free
Fast 100's: choice
WARM DOWN: 4 X 50 easy 1:00
More recovery
SCM, Solo
Warm up
400 Swim
(swam as 100 free/100 back)
200 Kick
(rev IMO)
8 x 25/30 desc 4
(1-4 free, 5-8 back)
Main Set:
6 x 200/15sec rest
Build each by 50 and do not force the stroke
(1-3 free, 2:55-3:00; 4-6 back, 3:20-3:25)
Kick Set:
5 min vertical kicking: 20 sec vertical kicking/10sec rest
Warm Down
200 easy free/back
Total: 2200 meters
Seem like I am swimming so fast in workout lately and today was no exception, even despite a bad back.
1000 Free as 200 SPSKS
500 Free kick w/snorkle & fins
5x200@4:00 Back w/paddles got progressively faster
300 Free kick w/fins
200 Fly alternate 50 Rt arm/50 Lt arm
Total 3000 meters
SCM, Solo
Warm up
600 swim
200 kick (rev IMO)
4 x 100/1:45 Build each
(ave. 1:28)
4 x 50/1:10 ds
(went 44->37)
8 x 25/45 strong, but do not force it
(1-4 free, 5-6 back, 7-8 fly)
Main Swim Set:
3 x 100 Kick/20sr
(went #1 breast, #2 back, #3 free)
8 x 25/10sr odds breast, evens free
6 x 50 breast Pull/15sr w/fins and dolphin kick
8 x 25/10sr like above
Warm down
400 easy free and back
Total: 3000 meters
Coached the Sharks SCY
This is a modified version of one of Onlyfree's workouts.
300 Choice
Set 1
4 x 75 K/DR/SW by 25 :15r
3 x 100 DR/Swim by 50 :15r
2 x 125 Pull :15r
Set 2
100 Mod
100 Hard
:20r on all
2x100 EZ or 200 ez
2x100 Mod or 200 Mod
2x100 Hard or 200 Hard
:15r on all or :30 if doing 200
3x100 EZ or 300 ez
3x100 Mod or 300 mod
3x100 Hard or 300 Hard
:10r on all or :30 if doing 300
100 EZ Kick
??x50 odds kick work the UW / Even's EZ Swim
IT was fun to watch the guys in lanes 4/5/6 race
on the last 300.
Peter 3:10, Jim 3:21, David 3:21
Peter started in lane 5 10 sec's behind david, caught him at the 175 and pushed off the wall
into the empty lane 6 next to them and kept going. I love coaching guy's like this.
I swam on my way home from coaching.
I did the main set as
6 x (3x100 ez,mod,hard) all on around 1:30 (I was playing with my watch)
Everything else the same.
1 X 300 negative split
1 X 200 kick 5:00
6 X 50 kick 1:15
50 stroke/50 free/50 stroke
1 X 50 Fast 1:00
2 X 50 fast 1:00
1 X 50 easy 1:00
3 X 50 fast 1:15
4 X 50 fast 1:15
3 X 50 fast
Mon Jun 5th 2010
Did not swim on Sun Jul 4th & didn't pig out too bad
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whitney Coached
Austin UT Swim Center main pool
swam with Todd, Mike, Tyler, Doug, Marcio, & Larry
wore b 70 jammer
dove in at 6:40
did around 500
kicked an easy speed 50 in 35
8 x 50 on :40
swam 7 easy & relaxed making interval
rest 10 sec then worked last 50 went 28
assigned 400
did 200
8 x 100 on 1:20
swam 7 easy & relaxed making interval
then worked last one &
went 1:05
assigned 400
did 200
GOT out & was DONE for the day
my buddies went on to do 8 x 200 fr on 2:40
July 8 - 11, 2010
Senior Circuit #4 Meet Info
Austin, TX
50 Freestyle
100 Butterfly
50 backstroke
200 Individual Medley
50 breastroke, &
50 butterfly
07/23/10 - 07/25/10
2010 South Central Long Course
Southlake, Texas
Days till LCM ZONES
Entered Zones yesterday & got my hotel
Updated July 6th, 2010 at 12:18 AM by ande
First and foremost - I want to say the Indy SwimFit meet was run very well! I had plenty of rest time, the results were posted extremely fast and the people running the desk were REALLY cool.
So to get to Indy, I decided to take the Amtrak. Its easy to get to, and its super low stress. This trip I take my friend Tessa. She's a great friend and she promised to video tape my swims.
We arrive in Indy about 11:30 PM, and walk about 300 yards to the hotel (GREAT PLANNING). After getting ready for bed, I fall asleep until about 4:30 AM. I finally get out of bed right around 5:15 get my stuff together in the dark and start walking around the hotel. Finally around 5:45 I make my way into the restaurant and get my first cup of decaf. Finally after consuming a massive amount of food by about 6:30, I get up and I walk over to the computers for the hotel and start playing around on the forums, facebook and gmail. (See here: [ame=http://forums.usms.org/showpost.php?p=219296&postcount=48]Forum Post[/ame])
As I'm sitting at the computer - I see a few people walking through the hotel with their own swim bags. I figured I'd just introduce myself and make friends - what a GREAT idea. The person I met was Nadine Day. First off - she knew EVERYONE at the meet, so I got to meet a lot of fantastic swimmers and make a lot of new friends. Secondly - I immediately labeled her as my surrogate coach. She actually did quite a bit to help me learn at the end of the meet and I'll be repeating those drills at pretty much every practice.
So enough fluff - I swam the 50 Back, 100 Back, 50 Free, 50 Breast and finally 100 Free. I'm coming to the conclusion - if I at least do one race well - its a good meet. :-)
Before the race - I received a free swim cap. I figured I would try it out! Why not; right? I did a few practice laps and decided I would just keep it on for the rest of the meet. It was a really weird feeling not feeling the water on your head.
50 Back
"I'd like to go at least a 50 in the 50 back this time. I did a 53 last weekend, and I think this time I'm going to be a little better prepared mentally for the race. I've also increased my backstroke during the week and kick to help push myself down the lane."
My goal in backstroke is always to survive. Although - its also to beat last meet's time. As of July 4th I don't have my official time for the Badger State Games, but I know I swam an equivalent time so I was pretty happy with that even if I didn't swim a 50. At least I'm not getting slower! I remember at the very beginning of the race I was choking on the water as it kept coming up over my face with my left arm. So I relaxed the arms and made sure that my stroke was even and calm and the water stopped flowing over my face. Watching the video - its pretty obvious that I don't know how to start. Something that I just have to learn in practice. As I'm watching though - I'm noticing that I bend my knees when I kick. This will be corrected as I learn the drills that Nadine taught me. I also worked to try and make sure my shoulders came out of the pool when swimming; you can tell when I'm thinking about it and when I'm not because I either do it or don't. Practice will even that out though.
100 Back
"I'm hoping I survive. No kidding. It's going to be a long race - and I'll swim it as hard as I can, but we'll have to see. I'm also hoping to have a good flip turn followed by a strong dolphin kick. I'm aiming for the flags off the wall!"
--No Video--
The race started the same as the 50 back - with me choking from water from my left arm. I again chilled out and let my arms relax. I swam a much better race. When I flipped turned off the wall, I didn't get any air right before my turn, so I was totally in O2 Debt by the time I came out from under. I also had a very deep flip turn for whatever reason. I came up and was able to breath again. At that point it was just "make it to the wall". I swam a 1:55 - which was great for me especially because I thought I was going to be doing about 2:00+.
50 Free
"I'm working on my sprints this week. I'm hoping to be able to make it to the 49 meter mark before I'm totally starting to cash out this time! So that means I need to dolphin off the dive and extend my dive for a little longer than I did last weekend. I swam a 33ish in 50 SCY, and a 39 last week. With some improvements in form that I'm working on I think I can speed things up significantly. My goal is going to remain 35 (as last week)"
<Sigh> This was a very disappointing race. I should've come up sooner and relied on my on my ability to swim rather than dolphin kick underwater. I wasted a lot of time in that race underwater. (Nadine came up and basically told me she was happy I was working on my underwater - but that was too much). I also didn't finish that race completely exhausted. So I know I didn't give 100% and I know I could've done much better. I ended that race on a 40, which sorely disappointed me. Next time I'll make it. I KNOW I can!
50 Breast
"Survive again. It would be nice to finish my 50 Breast in under a minute. Its my weakest stroke mostly because my kick is essentially useless. I'm working on it, I just need time and experience I think. However - specifically - I'm going to make sure that each lunge forward with my arms helps propel my body forward."
I did manage to complete this race in under a minute! I was super excited about that. I spent this race completely focused on form. That was far more important to me than any time or anything like that. So I made sure to allow time for a little bit of glide before going into the stroke again. Next time however I will probably take a little less time gliding and a little more time swimming. I think its about learning that delicate balance? Coach will tell me eventually. :-)
100 Free
"I'd like to see no goggle problems this time, a strong dolphin kick off the wall and pacing it right. Again - with some strong improvements in form that i'm working on - I think I can speed this up significantly by this race. Goal: 1:25"
Well, I certain did not swim a 1:25. I swam a 1:30. By the time I hit the blocks on this race, I was only focused on making a stand against that awful 50 Free I did before. I remember coming down, feeling pretty strong. My swim into the wall was not really that great (those bulkheads were trippy for me... I will have to swim in that pool more). After coming off the wall - I noted the guy next to me was beatable. So I decided to push it, hard. I started kicking harder and swimming harder. This entire time I was also not taking the time to breath every other stroke or even every three strokes. I limited myself to 4 or 5 strokes per breath thinking "You can breath when you're done...". I pushed myself as hard as I could into the wall with that guy right on my tail. He ended up kicking it in just at the last second and beating me by .05 seconds. I need to work on my finishes apparently :-) That race was a great race for me and I'm very proud of it.
All in all at this meet I was happy with how it turned out. I met Mary Pohlmann, Nadine Day, and quite a few other people whose names currently escape me. I can't wait til my next meet, regardless of the pool size. I do happen to really like the long course though. I really wish I could train in it. I've also decided after this weekend, I definitely need more swimming in my life. So I'm currently working to find more pools to swim in as well. We'll see how that goes and we'll see if I'm capable of keeping it up! Thanks for all of your encouragement everyone!
Tonight: Drills at the Lake Bluff Rec! Going to basically just do drills for a couple hours to work on form. Post ideas for drills if you want!
Updated July 7th, 2010 at 02:46 PM by bzaks1424
The pool temp was 86 at the Y today. Normally that would put my body into a lazy mode but not today.
10x100@1:45 Free
5x100@2:00 Fly w/fins as 25 skull drill/25 rt arm/25 lt arm/25 swim Fast
500 Free w/fins every 3rd 25 FAST
5x200@3:00 Free w/paddles & bouy went 2:34, 2:31, 2:28, 2:28, 2:27 very fast for me
500 Free kick w/fins easy
400 MI drills w/fins
100 Free easy
total 4000 yards
I went to early (5:30 am) LCM workout today. It seemed way too early to be up and about on a holiday. Apropos of nothing, my cab driver this morning remarked that it was good to be obsessive about swimming, but that he liked whiskey too much. (He knew I was going to a pool because he recognized the address, and I suppose he figured I was obsessive because who else takes a cab across town to swim at dawn?) You gotta love NYC cabbies.
The pool was fairly emptywe had only 3 or 4 swimmers per lane, and the lap lanes were pretty deserted. Heres what we did:
400 lcm warmup + bobbing and sinking
500 pull
5 x 100 kick @ 2:20
400 pull
6 x 100, odds ST (50 D / 50 S) @ 2:10, evens FR @ 1:55
300 pull
7 x 100 IM @ 2:05 [after being a lazybones for most of the above, I worked these1:35-1:36 on the first 5, then 1:33 and 1:30 on the last 2]
200 pull
4 x 100 FR @ 1:45 [held 1:28s]
200 warmdown
Pullings not my favorite thing, but I seemed to get in a groove on these and was really able to pay attention to my balance and posture in the water. On some of the pulls, I alternated 100s with a buoy with 100s FR w/ dolphin kick, just to change up the feel of things.
On the walk home, I was happy to be up and about before the heat set in. Now I get to laze the rest of the day. Brunch here I come!
I've been having so much fun being outdoors, I've forgotten to blog! Anyway, Thursday morning I ran a very slow 3.7 miles. Probably ran at a 10 minute per mile pace. On Friday, went to the quarry about 1/2 mile from my house and swam across and back. Kind of freaked out my friends by doing so as it is probably well over 100 feet deep in some places. One of my friends who is good at judging distances said it was probably 500 yards across. So, I guess I will give myself credit for a 1000 yard open water swim. On Saturday, did a 15.8 mile bike ride. Computer is still not fixed, but it took me about 55 minutes.
On Friday, I did squeeze in the following quick dryland workout:
2 sets of 15 push-ups with Bosu ball
2 sets of 10 assited pull-ups (70 lb. assist)
2 sets of 25 incline sit-ups
2 sets of 25 back extensions
1 set of 100 bicycles
2 sets of 15 x 15 hammer curls
Took today off. Hope everybody is having a wonderful Fourth!!
Updated July 5th, 2010 at 01:27 PM by elise526
Swam with the Sharks LCM Outside
It was a beautiful morning for a swim.
Pool was just cleaned, and the water was a little
cool due to the last few night's of temps in the 50's.
It was about 70 deg out side, bright sunny morning.
Susan made up the swim.
4 x 200 SKIP
Set 1
I descended the whole set.
We just took about :15 or so rest on everything
200 Kick
10 x 50 on about 1 min. We only set up one pace clock.
I wore the new paddles on this set.
I descended by 2's, thru in a couple of backstroke 50's
Only about 2,200 meters, plus the extra swimming moving
the lane lines from SCY to LCM and then back to SCY
Update on the Star Paddles....
I moved the strap, loosened it a bunch, and they
worked pretty good, there is only 1 strap
over my middle finger, they stay right in place.
They bend a little as you pull harder. I like the feel.
I need to get some other different paddles to compare.
Now if I can just remember to take them home with me every time!!
Happy 4th of July!!
Swam with the Sharks
Outside SCY
Coach Alex
10 Min Warm up
10 x 75 Indiana IM :10-:15r
8 x 25 V-Sprints :10r (EZ/Fast, Fast/EZ, Build, Sprint) 2x
Main Set
Fast 100s on 1:20/1:25/1:30/1:45 (Take your Pick)
EZ 100s on 2:00/2:15
1 x 100 fast
1 x 100 EZ
2 x 100 Descend to mod
1 x 100 EZ
3 x 100 Descend to fast
1 x 100 EZ
4 x 100 Descend to faster
1 x 100 EZ
5 x 100 Descend to fastest
1 x 100 EZ
10 x 75 Breathe every 3/5/7/9/11/11/9/7/5/3 strokes :20r
Repeat 3x
6 x 25 :20/:25/:35
1 x 100 EZ 2:00
Warm down
I didn't get in till around the 5th 75 IM.
I was taking attendance and couldn't figure out why I had 14 people on the attendance
sheet and only 13 in the pool. Duh... Forgot to count myself!!
Any way.....
We did the 100's on 1:25 except the last 5
we did on 1:30
We did the breath control a little different.
I did breath every 4 for all of them and Susan did breath 3 on all.
I really don't need to rob myself of oxygen at this
point in my life
For the last set we did the 3x50 on :40
and the 100 ez on whatever.
Everything felt good today. I'm trying out
some of the star paddles
I gotta figure out a different strap config.
They hurt my fingers after I used them on the 3x100's
But, they had a good feel in the water.
So I'll keep trying.
Saturday, 7/3/10
SCY, Worked out in Boise with my coach on deck. Nice to not have to swim on my own.
300 swim
100 kick
200 IM drill
6 x 50/1:00 desc by 3
(1-3 free, 42-37-35;4-6 back, 44-42-39)
8 x 25/30 as:#1-1st 12.5 fast, #2-2nd 12.5 fast, #3 - 25 smooth, 4th - 25 fast.
(1-4 free, 5-8 back)
100 easy
Main set
6 x 100/7:00 all out. 1-3 free, 4-6 back
(150 recovery swim between each)
(on free went 1:05.4, 1:07.28, 1:06.75; on back went 1:16.03, 1:17.88, 1:15.6)
Cool down
800 easy
(alternated 100 free/100 back)
Total: 3350 yards
Updated July 3rd, 2010 at 05:53 PM by poolraat
Sat Jun 3rd 2010
Taper Day 1
Dropped yardage but had a challenging main set
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whitney Coached
Austin UT Swim Center main pool
swam with Marcio, Mary, DVD, Larry, Sharon, Bess, & Bryan who did 5k's
wore b 70 jammer
dove in on time
3 x 300 done 200 fr 100 IM k, dr, sw by rounds
100 200 300 400 400 300 200 100
continuous, swam free & backstroke
on 1:20 per 100 base LCM
lead the lane, made them all
challenging set
held around 1:16's, worked last 50 of last 100 went 1:15, 2:33, 3:50, 5:06, 5:06, 3:49, 2:31, 1:09
July 8 - 11, 2010
Senior Circuit #4 Meet Info
Austin, TX
50 Freestyle
100 Butterfly
50 backstroke
200 Individual Medley
50 breastroke, &
50 butterfly
07/23/10 - 07/25/10
2010 South Central Long Course
Southlake, Texas
Days till LCM ZONES
Entered Zones yesterday & got my hotel


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If you haven't neccesary access level to alter the /etc/.../php.ini it's possible that your hosting let's you to modify your php variables via .htaccess files
To use this, try to place an .htaccess file in your root path.
to modify a flag (on/off value) use:
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If doing so you got an error 500 either the syntax of your file is wrong or your hosting don't let you alter php parameter by this method.
Ask your provider anyway.
There is probably a text editor installed on the server - you can use that to edit the file.
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To edit the file, issue the command (for example)
As you mentioned, there's also the possibility of downloading the file to your local machine, editing and uploading it back - but in my opinion, that's normally a waste of time since you would only normally change a few config values, for which the server side text editor is just so much quicker to do.
If I were you, I'd learn to use a text editor such as nano, vim, or emacs, so that you can edit it directly on the server (after making a backup copy, of course).
I guess your using Windows on your client machine then, so let's go from here.
If you don't have (or more probably can't find) a usable editor on your server you could use WinSCP to up- and download files via ssh/sftp. It also has a simple editor integrated to "directly" modify files on the server.
PuTTY also has a command line scp client pscp.exe which enables you to up- and download files from and to your server... but i guess WinSCP is the easier solution.
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I just replaced all of the ink cartridges and when printing the ink level status the black ink 564XL does ont show status or shows blank. All the other colors show full. I teid putting the original cartridge and a different replacement cartridge but still the printer will not copy or print from a Word or PDF document's black color.
With WORD documents I can change the font color to Blue and are able to print the document in blue. However when I switch the font back to Black the page does not print. I can try to be OK with printing Word documents in blue. However I cannot change the font colors to blue in PDF documents.
Has anyone seen this before and/or know what's required to resolve this?
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Thanks again for your help.
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I have been fighting the "black ink won't print" problem for a couple of years nowon my HP Officejet 6500. Think it's basically the same design as the 7525. Different fixes have worked at diff. times for me.
I've been able to get it to work several times by using the "clean the printheads" fix in the HP Solution Center.
When that didn't work, I've dry cleaned the printhead:
If that didn't work I've completely taken the printhead out and soaked it in warm water, dried and reinstalled it.
Yesterday, the problem came up again - usual fixes didn't work, thought maybe was just low on ink. Nope. $38 new XL ink cartridge - didn't fix it. Called HP tech support today... I was told it's because the printhead needs to be replaced.. this is the part that holds the ink cartridges that I have been manually cleaning. Tech said it needs to be replaced, like tires on a car need to be replaced. Said it would be approx. $68.
Seems maybe I've babied it for as long as possible. Time to make a change. Good luck!
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And - I tried to "clean the print heads" too - just in case that might work. Nope. Just wasted a bunch of colored ink. Have always liked HP printers, but I think I'm done.
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Three weeks ago I bought a HP 7525 at Cosco. It never worked as it should. Installing was easy and tests came out well, but after two weeks of work, the printer will start printing color images (no photos) in very bad quality. I changed some cartridges, to no avail. It is just frustraiting and impossible to fix. I never had this kind of problems with HP printers, but I'm very dissapointed now. In addition, the menu seems to be too oriented to market you things in a very annoying way, which shows how much rispect HP has for its customers..
I need to try now other brands.
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Update - I paid $40 for a new printhead. Didn't work - black still doesn't print. After years of being an HP fan, I bought an Epson.
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when I do not use my printer for a month the black ink will not print, I can put new ink cartridge in and it will still not print. If I go to tools and clean printer heads, it will lightly print first 1/3 of page then nothing after that. I threw my my last HP printer away when I could not get it to print black. Bought another HP printer, I think it is 74 series. I will not throw this one away, I will send it back if we cannot get it to work today. Then I will buy Epson or Samsong that do not have printer heads that dry out. Sincerly Blue Ox
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Try printing from a different app. I know it sounds crazy but I had the same problem but when I printed from a different
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Geraldine Jane King-Pugh, 75, a native of Terrebonne Parish and resident of Houma, died at 11:20 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 21, 2005.
Visitation will be from 4:30 to 9 p.m. Tuesday and from 9 a.m. to funeral time Wednesday at St. Matthews Episcopal Church. Religious services will be at 10:30 a.m. at the church with burial in Terrebonne Memorial Park cemetery.
She is survived by her husband, Frank D. Pugh of Houma; two sons, Frank D. Pugh Jr. and wife, Oksana, and Robert L. Pugh of Houma; four brothers, Earl P. King Sr., Elphie P. King, Thomas C. King, all of Houma, and Gordan J. King of New Iberia; one sister, Mattie King Smith, of Houma; one grandchild, Katherine Victoria Pugh; and numerous nephews, nieces, great-nephews and nieces, and great-great nephews and nieces.
She was preceded in death by her parents, William Hoffman King and Nettie Victoria King; three brothers, William T. King, Vernal King and Hoffman Anthony King; two sisters, Dorothy King Duet and Delores King Dunn.
She was a retired school teacher who taught throughout Terrebonne Parish, most recently at Oakshire Elementary.
She was an avid bowler up to 1961 and won many trophies. She played all sports with her brothers as a child. She was a member of Louisiana Retired Teachers Association and Terrebonne Retired Teachers Association. She was a member of St. Matthews Episcopal Church, where she was a member of the choir and altar guild.
Pallbearers will be Frank Pugh Jr., Robert L. Pugh, Derel Smith, Gordon King, Steve Duet Jr., Earl J. Clement, Michael Phillip King and Earl Paul King Jr.
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I've always read and heard that 3-4 sets of 4 to 6 exercises is good.
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You have to eat a lot (protein and carbs) and lift heavy. So that means staying in in the 4-8 rep range.
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Iron Man,Wild Goose! Sounds like a finger up a tin man's backside,doesn't it?
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Oil sands will pollute Great Lakes The environmental impacts of Alberta's oil sands will not be restricted to Western Canada, researchers say, but will extend thousands of kilometres away to the Great Lakes, threatening water and air quality around the world's largest body of fresh water. *****Report: How the Oil Sands Got to the Great Lakes Basin***** (pdf) Policy makers around the lakes, in both Canada and the U.S., are largely unaware that the tar sands will lead to massive industrial development in their region, and consequently have no strategy to minimize the environmental impacts. [more inside]
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Ducks die a crude death. Alberta's oilsands (previously) (map) have a new emblem -- hundreds of ducks coated and killed in oily toxic sludge. About 500 birds landed and died in an oil sands pond. The pond full of toxic sludge sits along a major flight path for migrating waterfowl. [more inside]
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Kinder Morgan oil pipeline ruptured near Vancouver, British Columbia Thick, black oil dripped from lampposts, splattered across suburban lawns and crept into Burrard Inlet after a geyser of crude spewed from a burst Kinder Morgan pipeline Tuesday. [google news] Work crews ripped into the TransMountain pipeline about 12:30 p.m., causing the oil to "explode," as one witness put it, from the ground and burble up from manholes, pouring down streets toward the ocean, according to witnesses. Kinder Morgan bought the pipeline from a Canadian utility in 2005, and is known as a "poster child for pipeline problems." More Kinder Morgan accidents.
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John Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982. He graduated from West Point in 1970, served five years as an officer in the U.S. Air Force, and then held fellowships at the Brookings Institution, Harvard University's Center for International Affairs, and the Council on Foreign Relations. Mearsheimer has written extensively about security issues and international politics more generally. He has published five books, including Conventional Deterrence (1983), The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (2001), and Why Leaders Lie: The Truth about Lying in International Politics (2011). He has also written many articles for both academic and popular publications, including International Security, Foreign Affairs, London Review of Books, New York Times, and Los Angeles Times.
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Flight to Charlotte plunges into Hudson
All 155 aboard escape safely after emergency landing
Published: Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 4:54 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 11:01 p.m.
All 150 passengers and 5 crew members aboard a US Airways flight bound for Charlotte, N.C., escaped safely minutes after the plane took off from LaGuardia Airport and then plunged into the icy Hudson River.
Birds in both engines may have brought down jet
By MICHELINE MAYNARD
New York Times
Federal investigators are pursuing early indications that the US Airways jet that crash-landed in the Hudson River was struck by geese shortly after taking off a type of collision that has caused problems for pilots since soon after the first airplane flight.
The accident involving the jet, which took off from La Guardia Airport, would be unusual, though, because both of the planes engines appeared to have been damaged by birds, aviation experts said on Thursday.
Since 2000, at least 486 planes have collided with birds, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Of those incidents, 166 led to emergency landings and 66 resulted in aborted takeoffs.
The earliest known fatal airplane crash involving a bird took place in 1912, nine years after the first flight by the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk, N.C. That plane crashed into the surf off Long Beach, Calif., pinning its pilot under the wreckage.
The most deadly crash involving a bird strike occurred in 1962, when 62 people were killed on an Eastern Air Lines propeller plane that crashed upon takeoff from Boston. That plane collided with a flock of starlings, sucking the birds into three of its four engines, causing the jet to stall and plunge into Boston Harbor.
In the New York area, the most recent incident took place at Kennedy Airport in December 2006, when a great blue heron was drawn into the engine of a Boeing 767 jet shortly after takeoff. The plane returned to the airport, and passengers were put on another flight.
There was another incident at La Guardia as recently as 2003, when an American Airlines Fokker 100 plane hit a flock of geese upon takeoff, causing the right engine to fail. The flight was diverted to J.F.K.
All commercial airplane engines are required to pass a bird strike test before they can be certified for use. Engine manufacturers, including CFM International, which produced the engines on the US Airways Airbus A320 involved in Thursdays sudden landing, test the engines physically and through computer simulation.
In the physical tests, the engines are revved to full power inside a test facility and absorb various kinds of birds, from those the size of sparrows to those the size of herons, one at a time. (The birds are already dead.) The engines also ingest multiple birds meant to simulate a collision with a flock, said Matthew Perra, a spokesman for the engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney.
To pass the test, engines must keep operating after the collision, maintaining enough power to take off, fly around the airport and land the plane safely, he said. That is because a jet with two engines has to be able to take off on 50 percent power.
Engines are tested one at a time, so manufacturers cannot measure what would happen if a flock of birds hit both engines at once. However, they do study that situation through simulation tests.
Its a rare thing to see two engines go out at the same time, Mr. Perra said.
Airports around the world have encountered bird collisions through the years, making them a standard hazard for commercial, military and private pilots alike.
Any time you get an open field and grass, youve got birds, said Robert W. Mann Jr., an aviation industry expert in Port Washington, N.Y. Mr. Mann said birds pose the greatest threat during takeoff, when jets use the most engine power in order to become aloft. Birds are also a hazard as the planes climb to cruising altitudes.
Bird strikes are frequently reported around 8,000 feet, especially during migration periods.
Although birds generally do not fly higher than 12,000 feet, there has been a report of a bird strike at 37,000 feet.
New Yorks airports are particularly vulnerable to ocean-loving birds, according to Susan Elbin, director of conservation at New York City Audubon. Indeed, there are colonies of gulls on islands adjacent to J.F.K.
For years, the F.A.A., the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the United States Department of Agriculture have tried to minimize the conflict between birds and planes, Ms. Elbin said. Falcons, along with pyrotechnics, recordings of wild animals and propane cannons that create loud, startling noises, have been used to scare bird populations away from runways.
But sometimes, the airports have been forced to relocate the flocks, or in the most extreme cases, kill them.
As a last resort you have to do lethal control to convince the rest of the flock that we mean business, said Russell DeFusco, a member of the steering committee for Bird Strike Committee USA, a group that collects data on bird strikes.
Mr. Mann said pilots can do only so much to train for a possible bird strike. He called the response by the US Airways crew to the emergency just remarkable.
Said Mr. Mann: It was a great piece of flying, both for putting it down where they would not endanger a lot of people, and for putting it down in one piece.
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Moments after the pilot of the plane, a twin jet Airbus A320, glided the aircraft to an emergency landing on the river, a veritable flotilla of small craft converged on the crippled plane and began rescuing the freezing passengers who had gathered on the wings.
It would appear the pilot did a masterful job of landing in the river and making sure everybody got out, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said at an early evening news conference. I had a long conversation with the pilot, he walked the plane twice and made sure that everybody was out.
The pilot was identified as Capt. Chesley B. Sullenberger, III, 57, of Danville, Calif.
Some of the passengers were taken to hospitals in New York and New Jersey, and several were treated for hypothermia and a variety of minor injuries. It was one of the coldest days of the year in New York City, with the air temperature in the 20s, the wind chill making it feel like 11 degrees, and the water temperature in the Hudson about 40 degrees.
Initial reports indicated that a flock of birds might have been sucked into the jet engines. Several sources said that air traffic controllers received word from the pilot that he had suffered a "double bird strike. One passenger said the plane hit a massive flock of birds, making a sound suggesting dozens of small objects hitting the engine.
Several aircraft manufacturers said such occurrences are rare.
Yet a bird strike would be consistent with the aircrafts path; radar records indicate that the plane reached an altitude of at least 3,200 feet before it began to descend. In addition, when planes crash on departure because of icing, they do not climb that high.
The National Transportation Safety Board will conduct a thorough investigation to determine the probable cause with our complete support and the support of many others, Doug Parker, chairman and chief executive of US Airways said in a statement issued by the airline.
Stunned and shivering passengers who were rescued from the jetliner described a frightening scene in the three minutes between takeoff and the hard landing in the river, and then a surprisingly controlled exit from the partly submerged aircraft.
Jeff Kolodjay, 31, who was traveling with his father and a brother and was seated over the left wing, said he heard the left engine blow.
"The left engine just blew and there were flames, Mr. Kolodjay said. It started smelling a lot like gasoline. The pilot got on and said, You guys got to brace for a hard impact. Thats when everyone started to say their prayers. I got to give it to the pilot, he did a hell of a landing.
Mr. Kolodjay said that the plane started taking on water soon after it hit the river. It was filled up to our waist by the time we got off, he said.
Scott Stringer, the Manhattan borough president, said he was with the mayor and the Gov. David A. Paterson in a holding area at Pier 79 when he saw the survivors and spoke to some of them.
"I just saw a whole bunch of people wrapped with blankets but with the biggest smiles on their faces," Mr. Stringer said. "The composure in the holding area was jsut unbelievable."
He added: "People were just praising the pilot and thankful for their good fortune."
In California, Captain Sullenbergers wife, Lorrie, said she learned about the crash when her husband called her Friday afternoon. "I havent stopped shaking yet," she said in a brief phone interview.
Captain Sullenberger, a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy, has been a pilot for US Airways since 1980. In addition, he is a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeleys Center for Catastrophic Risk Management.
US Airways planes departing LaGuardia have been involved in two recent accidents. In March 1992, 27 people died when a Fokker 28 bound for Cleveland burst into flames on takeoff on a snowy night and broke apart as it crashed into Flushing Bay. The cause was determined to be ice buildup on the wings.
Pilot error was blamed for a September 1989 crash of a US Airways jetliner that crashed into Flushing Bay, killing two people.
The most recent crash in New York was American Airlines Flight 587 in November 2001, which took which took off from JFK Airport. The Airbus A300 crashed in the Rockaways on takeoff, killing 265 people, including 5 on the ground.
On Thursday, bystanders involved in the rescue were amazed at how smoothly the operation went.
David Watta, a 42-year old vice president of Product Management at Shermans Travel Media, was heading home on the Weehawken Ferry, the first to reach the plane.
Mr. Watta said in a telephone interview that his ferry was diverted to the plane after about two minutes out of port.
"A lot of people were in shock, and a lot of people were freezing, he said. They loaded about fifty onto the boat, and we gave them our coats to warm them up and tried to comfort them. We were holding people, hugging them, reassuring them, holding there hands, warming them with our body heat. We tried to take them to the back of the ferry which was warmer because it was furthest from the entrance.
He added: We provided cell phones so they could call loved ones, a lot of them were so cold that they couldnt dial so we dialed for them. I would say that everyone on the ferry were heroes for the day, they were all civilians who stepped up in a time of need to help their fellow citizens.
The mayor complimented New York Waterways, the Circle Line, and the Coast Guard, New York police and fire department crews for their immediate and well-coordinated efforts.
Port Imperial Ferry, which operates between Manhattan and Weehawken, shut down service during the rescue operation.
Most witnesses on the Manhattan side of the Hudson recalled an eerie sight of a plane flying too low over the Hudson River, sending chilling reminders of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Fulmer Duckworth, 41, an employee at the Bank of America, watched the incident unfold from the 29th floor of his building at West 42nd Street and Sixth Avenue. It didnt occur to me that it was a plane in the water.
Mr. Duckworth said he saw the plane spin counterclockwise in the water and begin drift down the river with the current. The plane had taken off at 3:26 p.m., and the tide was on its way out, pulling the craft down the river.
Witnesses said the plane, described by the manufacturer as a medium-range jetliner, floated for two or three minutes before it started to sink as it drifted downstream, its nose poking up.
It didnt break up at all, Mr. Duckworth said. Everything you could see looked perfectly intact, like you could take it out of the water and fly it.
Another witness, Matt Mireles, who sent an e-mail message to The New York Times, said that from the window of his Upper West Side apartment he saw white smoke trailing from the left engine shortly before it glided onto the icy gray water.
At the airport in Charlotte, where the flight was scheduled to arrive at 5:16 p.m. and then depart for Seattle at 6:10, the arrival board said the plane was still expected to arrive on time late into the afternoon.
But it would not.
Sheikh Ali, 50, of West Caldwell, N.J., was in Charlotte awaiting a co-worker, Matt Kane, who was aboard Flight 1549.
When Mr. Kane, who works at a telecom company in Connecticut, did not arrive in Charlotte, Mr. Ali sent a text message to his colleague, Where are you?
Mr. Kane replied, I landed in the Hudson.
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NFL Team Report - Denver Broncos - INSIDE SLANT
Life without starting left tackle Ryan Clady began quietly for the Broncos when they began practicing for Monday night's game against the Oakland Raiders.
Backup left tackle Chris Clark assumed Clady's previous role, and the Broncos are moving forward as if nothing had happened, or that is the plan.
But without the recently re-signed All-Pro tackle, the Broncos may need to make a few changes to protect quarterback Peyton Manning against a Raiders team that, surprisingly, was No. 1 in the NFL with nine sacks after two games.
The Broncos could opt for more two-tight end formations than they used in the last two weeks, or could choose to continue emphasizing three-wide receiver sets, focusing more on short passes and screens to take the edge off an opposing pass rush.
Nevertheless, the Broncos are trying to remain confident -- starting with their defensive linemen, who face off against Clady on a daily basis in practice.
"I don't think they're going to miss a heartbeat, man. He's going to come in there and nothing's going to change," said defensive lineman Malik Jackson. "He's solid. He's been waiting his turn. He's been patiently waiting, practicing and doing everything right."
Clark was also the first-team tackle through much of the offseason while Clady sat out during his recovery from rotator-cuff surgery.
"Chris got a great deal of repetitions and he was here the entire year last year with this bunch. OTAs and training camps and meetings, he was the starter the entire time," said quarterback Peyton Manning. "I think that can help us."
This will be the first time Clady has missed a game in his career.
In 2010, he returned just four and a half months after tearing a patella tendon; he wasn't as effective as he had been, but he slogged through regardless. Two years later, he played through rotator cuff pain that necessitated surgery after the season.
But a tear to the Lisfranc joint in Clady's left foot will be too much to overcome. When he Broncos placed him on injured reserve Wednesday, it ended his season and confirmed that he will need surgery to repair the foot.
Clady was hurt when Giants defensive tackle Cullen Jenkins fell on the back of his left ankle with 3:40 left in the Broncos' 41-23 win at MetLife Stadium on Sunday. Clady was able to slowly walk off the field, but subsequent evaluations revealed the Lisfranc injury.
With protection of Peyton Manning the Broncos' first, second and third offensive priority, that makes Clark, a heretofore anonymous backup, arguably the most crucial man to sustaining their Super Bowl hopes. Clark has never started as an offensive lineman before, although he did start six games in 2011 as a third tight end when the Broncos abandoned all pretense of a balanced offense while Tim Tebow was their starting quarterback.
"When I'm playing tight end I view it as being the open inside tackle -- that's the way I viewed it," Clark said. "That helps, getting games under your belt and getting prepared for that as well. That will definitely help me."
But what is more valuable to Clark's chances is his work this spring and summer, when he worked as the first-team left tackle throughout organized team activities, minicamp, training camp and the preseason. Clady's absence because of rotator-cuff surgery necessitated that promotion, and Clark tried to maximize it by becoming familiar with Manning's checks and calls.
"That definitely helped a lot," Clark said. "You get a chance to learn different things, snap counts, different things like that, and learn his rhythm. Sometimes you can jump the ball before it comes out of his mouth because we know his rhythm."
That experience makes him the best option for the job, and with injuries to Clady and J.D. Walton, the Broncos now have the first-team offensive line that they used for most of their practices prior to the regular season.
The Broncos signed former Eagles and Colts tackle Winston Justice to fill the roster spot opened by Clady's injury, but he is likely no more than an insurance policy in the event of further injuries to the tackles. All of Justice's starting experience as a pro is at right tackle, and if something happens to Clark, the Broncos are more likely to move starting right tackle Orlando Franklin to the left side, leaving Justice to work on the right side.
Another contingency plan could involve moving left guard Zane Beadles to left tackle; he briefly worked at tackle during training camp. But that would only work if Chris Kuper has sufficiently healed from offseason ankle surgery to fill in for Beadles at left guard; Kuper is on the 53-man roster, but has been inactive so far this season and has been limited in practice the last two weeks.
"But with our mentality of 'next man up,' I think the best part about this team is having depth," said wide receiver Eric Decker. "I think we do have a lot of guys that can fill a position. Chris Clark is one guy that is going to step up."
SERIES HISTORY: 106th regular-season meeting. Raiders lead series, 59-44-2. Denver has won three straight in the series. The most historic meeting between the two teams was in the 1977 AFC Championship, when the Broncos defeated the Raiders 20-17 to qualify for their first of six Super Bowl appearances while denying Oakland a chance at back-to-back world titles.
NFL Team Report - Denver Broncos - NOTES, QUOTES
Denver's run defense is the league's second-stingiest on a per-carry basis this season, and has combined with a point-a-minute offense to make running against the Broncos an impossible task. Oakland's rushing offense is the league's most productive, and the Raiders have run on a higher percentage of their downs than anyone else.
But much of that is due to the ground threat Terrelle Pryor poses. Pryor leads all NFL quarterbacks with 162 rushing yards and 7.4 yards per carry so far this season, and is doing so with plays that may look familiar to long-time Broncos.
"They're doing some of the stuff that we did with (Tim) Tebow when he was here," said defensive tackle Kevin Vickerson. "The offense is real similar in that way where they are running first and trying to keep our offense off the field. That's what teams are going to try to do."
Pryor and the Raiders begin a stretch of the schedule in which the Broncos will have to account for what quarterbacks can do on the run; over the next six games, Denver faces Pryor, Philadelphia's Michael Vick, Washington's Robert Griffin III and Indianapolis' Andrew Luck, who doesn't run as frequently as the others but is effective when keeping the football for himself.
"We've been preparing for these teams since OTAs," said Broncos cornerback Chris Harris. "It actually helped us out that we've been preparing so long for teams like this, because we knew we had a lot on our schedule. We have to stop the run. If we don't stop the run, it's going to be a long day."
A key to stopping the run will be discipline among the linebackers and defensive backs -- and avoiding the temptation to over pursue, which can lead to a big hit, but also a bad misplay and a long pickup.
"It's not really tempting. It just depends upon what your assignment is," said safety Duke Ihenacho. "We do a good job of just trying to kind of being disciplined on whatever we have to do. If we're in man-to-man coverage, we're going to stay on our man and wait until he crosses the line of scrimmage and then come get him. Other than that, it's not really hard."
--WR Eric Decker was ineffective against the Ravens in Week 1; he had as many drops (two) as receptions. Given the proficiency of Wes Welker, Demaryius Thomas and emerging tight end Julius Thomas, it would be easy for Decker to be marginalized; even though he led the Broncos in touchdowns last year, he lacks the physical ability of Demaryius Thomas and isn't as effective in the slot as Welker.
But Peyton Manning vowed he'd get the football to Decker against the Giants, and he made good on that promise, throwing his first pass of the game to Decker and continuing to feed him throughout the 41-23 win. Decker was targeted 13 times -- four more than any other Bronco -- and led Denver in receptions and yardage, catching nine passes for 87 yards. Decker also delivered downfield blocks on both of Knowshon Moreno's touchdown runs.
"From my standpoint, it's being a reliable receiver," Decker said. "You want to be dependable and the only way to do that is be consistent. I think trying to show that to, not just the quarterback, but to the entire team. And just have that relationship with the quarterback that he knows he can trust you and that you're going to make the next play."
The season-ending injury to Clady could also affect Decker's role in the coming weeks. If the Broncos opt to use more two-tight end formations to help Clark adjust to starting at left tackle, then Decker will see more snaps than Wes Welker, who lines up in the slot, and by default he could be targeted as often as he was last year, when the Broncos leaned heavily on two-tight end sets with Decker and Demaryius Thomas stretching the field on the flanks.
BY THE NUMBERS: 13 - Length of the Broncos' current regular-season winning streak. A win Monday will match a franchise record.
QUOTE TO NOTE:"We know that he's going to extend plays, so we have to plaster, and by plastering, I mean find our man and don't lose him, even when you start scrambling, don't let your eyes get on the quarterback, but keep your eyes on your man." -- CB Chris Harris, on defending Raiders QB Terrelle Pryor.
NFL Team Report - Denver Broncos - STRATEGY AND PERSONNEL
--OT Ryan Clady is on injured reserve and out for the season after suffering a tear at the Lisfranc joint in his left foot late in Sunday's win over the Giants. He is expected to have surgery.
--S Duke Ihenacho left the win over the Giants with a right ankle injury, and was upgraded to probable after getting in full practice Saturday.
--CB Champ Bailey practiced Thursday -- his first practice work since he sprained his foot during the second quarter of a preseason loss at Seattle on Aug. 17. Bailey worked on a limited basis again Saturday and is officially listed as questionable.
--TE Joel Dreessen practiced on a limited basis Saturday. It was his second practice since undergoing knee surgery last month. He hasn't played a snap in a preseason or regular-season game this year, and is listed as questionable.
--RB C.J. Anderson practiced in full pads Saturday. It was his second full-pad work since he sprained his medial collateral ligament on Aug. 15, and he is listed as probable. But he remains unlikely to play in a game unless the Broncos decide to shake up their three-man committee of Knowshon Moreno, Montee Ball and Ronnie Hillman.
--G Chris Kuper practiced all week and is probable. He had been limited in a gradual return to work after ankle surgery sidelined him in the offseason.
--C J.D. Walton is expected back no earlier than late October after being placed on the physically-unable-to-perform list. Walton fractured his ankle last year and had complications that resulted in further surgery in June.
--LB Wesley Woodyard played 90 percent of the snaps against the Giants in spite of injuring his ankle in the fourth quarter of the Week 1 win over Baltimore 10 days earlier, and is expected to have no issues going forward. Against the Giants, he finished second on the team with seven tackles.
--WR Wes Welker was named one of the Broncos' team captains Thursday. The Broncos had a vacant offensive captain's spot after Ryan Clady was placed on injured reserve. Peyton Manning, Champ Bailey, Wesley Woodyard and David Bruton are the other captains.
--OT Chris Clark signed a two-year contract extension on Monday. He has been a backup for the team since 2011, but is expected to make his first start at left tackle Monday against Oakland. He started six games at tight end in 2011.
--DL Malik Jackson led the Broncos with two hits of Eli Manning last week. Jackson has been rotating between the end and tackle spots the last two games, and has played 42.3 percent of the snaps so far this season.
--QB Peyton Manning has posted a passer rating of at least 90.0 for 15 consecutive regular-season games. If he surpasses that mark Monday, he will break his own league record in that statistic.
--KR/PR Trindon Holliday earned AFC Special Teams Player of the Week honors after returning a punt 81 yards for a fourth-quarter touchdown that effectively sealed the Broncos' 41-23 win over the Giants.
--CB Chris Harris has intercepted passes in two consecutive games. If he gets one Monday, he'll become the first Bronco with interceptions in three consecutive games since Champ Bailey in 2006.
--WR Andre Caldwell has made the most of limited work. He's averaged 32.0 yards on his two receptions this year, one of which went for a 28-yard touchdown, and successfully screened out a pair of Giants to help spring Trindon Holliday for his 81-yard punt-return touchdown on Sept. 15.
GAME PLAN: Without LT Ryan Clady for the rest of the season, the Broncos will have to change how they protect Peyton Manning, and the Raiders' surprisingly potent pass rush offers an early barometer to measure Denver's ability to keep the 16-year veteran upright. Oakland leads the league in sacks through two games, which could compel the Broncos to abandon their preferred three-wide receiver sets in favor of two-tight end formations like they used often last year. Denver had some success in two-tight end formations in the second half last week, but they were able to send one or both tight ends out on pass routes when Manning dropped back to pass; against the Raiders, they might have to keep at least one back in to block and help Chris Clark, who will replace Clady at left tackle.
MATCHUPS TO WATCH: Broncos DTs Kevin Vickerson and Terrance Knighton vs. Raiders Gs Mike Brisiel and Lucas Nix and C Stefen Wisniewski. The Raiders' interior offensive line has helped produce the league's No. 1 rushing game through two weeks; Oakland leads in rushing yardage (397) and yardage per carry (5.9). The Broncos have allowed the fewest rushing yards in the league and rank second in yardage-per-carry against, thanks mainly to the ability of its defensive linemen to win one-on-one matchups and defuse run plays before the ballcarrier can react. Vickerson and Knighton were particularly effective against the Giants last week; after allowing 10 yards on the Giants' first two rushing plays, the Broncos held them to 13 yards on their last 17 carries, making them one-dimensional.
Broncos WRs Eric Decker, Demaryius Thomas and Wes Welker vs. Raiders CBs Tracy Porter, D.J. Hayden and Mike Jenkins. Porter spent an unhappy 2012 season with the Broncos, and can offer insight on Thomas and Welker from going against both receivers on a daily basis during the offseason and training camp, but Hayden faces the stiffest challenge of his brief career in facing Welker. The Raiders were able to contain Indianapolis' targets in Week 1, but Welker in the slot could make the Broncos' receivers more than Oakland can handle.