YSL: 36, 37

I'm going to have to think up a new way to list these days. I've stopped being able to count, or maybe I just never started being able to count. Maybe the week thing will work for me, too, although I'd probably just forget.
Day 36 was a rest day.
Day 37 was the start of a new stage of working out. I think we're in "Preparation" stage right now. Yes, that's right.
My workouts suddenly look different. Now, instead of nice friendly terminology (bike 1 hour), I have this:
SWIM: SWU3, SDS2, SSF6, SSS3, DPS2, SRS 4
ER2 (FI 6-8)
Agggggh.
Fortunately, there are roughly 150 pages of directions, descriptions, and text to go with this. Lovely.
Yesterday, 37, was disappointing to both me and Coach Mike, I'm sure. I got to the pool later than I wanted to and couldn't do part of the workout. Then it started to snow sideways and I wasn't keen on doing Fartleks (that's what "FI," stands for, by the way) in the snow, which was only barely covering a treacherous layer of dreadful, lumpy bumpy ice. Coach Mike was not pleased that I skipped the run. Get thee to a treadmill, is what he said, pretty much. So I have to find one of those. Maybe I should see if I can freecycle one.
Ur. I did my swim early today (although not early enough, it seems--I cut my recovery times between strokes to about half of what they were supposed to be and still couldn't squeeze in my 600-yard recovery swim at the end), and then, later today, it's a transition workout: an hour bike followed by a half-hour run.
I have to do this in time for Project Runway with KF this evening, and there's a bunch of garbage to get done before then that's not nearly as fun as either Project Runway *or* a TWB ("Transition Workout, Base"). Don't worry, kids. Soon, you, too, will be well versed in the art of Carmichael acronyms...and then you, too, will be hip and cool like me.