Pyramind Scheming

Well, it looks as though the rest of this week will be simply winging the workouts.  At least that is how things started off this morning.   My Mean Swim Coach (my daughter Virginia), her husband (my reader's son) and I went to swim at the break of dawn.  We were in the pool by about 6:20.   I had no plan at all.  I was simply relying on my Mean Swim Coach to tell me what to do.  Likewise, there was no plan for the afternoon.   Thinking through a normal week, it seemed like it might be a good day for a bike ride but nothing definite was on the books.   

Now maybe it was fatigue from my breakthrough 1000m swim yesterday, or maybe it was the enormous helping of spaghetti and meat sauce last night at Bistro 42 but today's swim seemed much harder than yesterday.    The farthest I had to swim continuously today was 400m BUT my Mean Swim Coach introduced me to Pyramids.   So today, after my normal 450m warm-up, I swam 100m breast stroke, 200m freestyle, 300m breast again, 400m free, 300m free with a pull buoy (meaning no kicking), 200m freestyle, and finally 100m free with a pull buoy.   Total swim was 2050m.  

If you have never done pyramids (like me until this morning), pyramids are designed to humble you.   When first introducing me to pyramids, my Mean Swim Coach instructed me to swim as follows: 50m followed by 100m, then 150m, then 200m, 250m, 300m, 350m, 400m.  Then the same in reverse order.   Of course the appropriate thing to have done would have been to simply jump in and start swimming.  However being lazy, I decided instead to first do some math and pointed out that the total there is 3600m.  Including the 450m I had already swam would total more than 4000m or roughly 2.5 miles.   My Mean Swim Coach relented and assigned me the 100m, 200m, 300m, 400m, 300m, 200m, 100m pyramid I mentioned above but she also has now labeled me as her Lazy Swimmer.

As the day wore on, I remembered that tomorrow is a holiday and I would be off all day AND Yoga would be canceled.   With that in mind, I decided that I would give myself this afternoon off and work on a swim and a bike ride tomorrow when I have the whole day.  After all, I am winging it this week and since no one (other than my reader Dave Leonard) reads this blog, no one will ever know...

Have a great evening.

David (aka Lazy Swimmer, aka That Chubby Guy from Yoga)