Catching up Again

Good news this afternoon.  I had another breakthrough day in the swim!   I skipped the warm-up and did a continuous swim of 1600m (1 mile.)    That is the longest continuous swim to date.   I would like to claim that it was all free style, but the shallow end of the pool there is too shallow for me to do free style, so I had to swim breast for part of every length of the pool.   Still, it was great to be able to complete a mile swim.   

Now things were just a little chaotic getting started.  My buddy Andrew and his buddy John went to Tom Sawyer pool with me, which was nice.  It's a little more fun when you have some company.   When we got there, the swim team had half the pool and some sort of water aerobics class was going on.  It turned out that on Tuesdays, the lap swim doesnt start until 7:15.   Of course, some of the kids apparently did not get the memo and one young man in particular kept jumping into the lap lanes to splash around AFTER the half of the pool was opened for lane swim.  Unfortunately, I also forgot my goggles tonight and right now my eyes are scarlet red, dry and itchy.   But the biggest hassle was some elderly lady for whatever reason, decided that she liked my lane to swim in.  Now I do not mind sharing lanes with people when necessary but there were several other lanes available, she just wanted my lane.  Several times I had to swim around her when she nearly swam right into me because she wasnt looking and she was in MY lane.    Still, I made my mile swim, so all in all, I would classify the night as a win.

Yesterday I was playing catch up all day long.  I overslept and really did not have time to work out so I did an abbreviated swim in the morning.  I skipped the warm-up completely and only did a total of 1100m consisting of 100m breast, 50 breast, 100 free, 150 breast, 200 free, 200 free, 150 breast, 100 free, 50 breast.    In the afternoon, what I really needed to do was some sort of a run.  But it was Luau day at the gym and the movie in the cardio theatre sucked, so I did upper body weights instead.   

Tomorrow, Yoga in the evening possible swim in the morning, but the swim is to be determined.

Right now, I am recovering from too large a meal and too much gatorade following my workout.  And then it will be time for a good night's sleep. 

Have a great evening. 

David