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December 27, 2005
Under the Weather
I'm starting to get a cold. It's not very bad yet though, and will hopefully stay that way. Just a sore throat and stuffy nose. No vice grip on my head yet. :)
Today I hit the pool. I was a bit confused as to when the pool was actually open. I was thinking in my head I could swim laps any time from 7 am to 2 pm. As I was getting ready to leave around 8:45 am however I took a quick look at the pool schedule again and saw that the pool was not available from 9:00 to 11:30 am! AHHH!! It's times like these that I miss running when you can go whenever you want!
So I tooled around for a while, did my core and feet exercises, cleaned underneath the stove (it was bothering me that there was visible crud under there), read 3 chapters of my book (I still have a long way to go!), did some laundry, etc... and then left for the pool around 11:15.
Today the pool was actually pretty busy and busy with people that looked like they were really good at swimming. I usually share lanes with men and women > 75 years old, but today all the youngins were out! When I was swimming the hard part of my workout I was trying desperately to keep up with the women in my lane who I believe was just doing drills and warming up. It kept me occupied though and probably made me swim harder than I would have otherwise.
I did the following:
400 yd easy
200 yd kick easy
200 yd easy
5 sets of (1x100 yd hard, 2x50 yd kick hard each with 10 sec rest) and 1 minute rest between sets
500 yd easy
It was 2300 yds total and it took me somewhere between 45 and 50 minutes including all the rests and water breaks, etc...
Now O and I are getting ready to face the malls. I actually think it may not be too bad as most people probably had to go back to work today. The gift cards we got for Christmas are burning holes in our pockets!
Posted by beth at December 27, 2005 2:27 PM