Breaking Through

Today's workouts were actually unplanned. I'm getting bad about that. I knew I needed to do a swim but I had not finalized a plan for this week with my Mean Swim Coach. I also knew I needed an afternoon workout, probably a run or something. But really today I just winged it.

Luckily, my Mean Swim Coach got up at the crack of dawn to swim with me this morning at Blairwood. She made sure that I didn't slack off and in fact, she probably is responsible for today's break through. She had me do my now regular 450m warm-up. Then it was time for a long swim

Now I am going to have to admit that she would have let me off with an 800m freestyle swim. I however decided that it would be too confusing (because I lose count) to do 800m and decided that swimming 1000m would make counting easier. So, I swam 1000m (but maybe 1200m - I don't know. I lost count anyway.) Then another 50m breast. Then 100m with the pull buoy. So, once again I swam about a mile (or maybe a little more - like I said, I lost count)

Recovery today went much better than Saturday. We went immediately to Starbuck and got lattes and a scone and that seemed to help.

The second workout today followed work. It was above 100 degrees again and I decided to do some light cardio inside in the gym. Once again, my Mean Swim Coach and her husband accompanied me to make sure that I didn't slack off.  So I chose to go to the cardio theatre even though there was a terrible movie playing. It is cool and dark and no one could see that I was being a slacker. (I'm basically lazy)   In essense, I did a recovery run like I used to do every Monday following a long run for my marathon training. After 35 minutes, I finished and went home.

This is where all that training goes to waste or perhaps I should say to waist. Following our workouts, we went to Bistro 42 with Phyllis Jean to eat very large portions of Italian food.

Tomorrow is again unplanned.  But right now, I am thinking that we (Mean Swim Coach and I) will go to the pool early once again BUT I do plan to avoid standing on the scale for a few days. And maybe if I don't forget, I will spend some time to get my workouts planned again and get myself back on track.

Let me know if you have any questions, comments, tips, advice or stories. I would love to hear them.

Have a great evening.

David (aka that chubby guy from Yoga)