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August 18, 2006
Highly Recommended
I highly recommend taking days off work. You can sleep in. You can putz around. You can write your blog entry at 10:30 in the morning. You can do whatever you want! It's great. :)
O and I were going to take a trip to Indianapolis this weekend so I took today and Monday off from work. The trip had to be cancelled for several reasons, first and foremost being the fact that O's softball playoffs were supposed to be over by this point in the summer but are not. Big game last night, big game tonight. You can't be missing games at this point. Reason #2 was that I was going to do a race out there but being that I have raced the last 3 weekends, I really didn't mind not racing again this weekend. So instead of driving out to Indiana we are taking a mini trip to Happy Valley, leaving tomorrow afternoon after O competes in his HS alumni cross country race and I do my 2:45 brick. Problem solved. Regardless, I'm not sure why I'm writing about all this other than to explain why I have two days off work, a fact that most everyone could probably care less about. Needless to say, I'm rambling again... :)
This morning I slept in until 6:30 which netted me 8.5 hours of sleep. So very nice. I drove over to the YMCA and did a pool workout first.
3500 yds total (500 yds warmup, 300 yds cooldown)
9x300 as
3x300 on 5:45
3x300 on 5:30
3x300 on 5:15
It was a nice set of longer (for me) intervals. And even though the pool is warm at my YMCA, I love the people there! They are all older and they all have stories to tell. The guy swimming in the lane next to me told me how he always used to swim in the river (which river I'm not sure), against the current to make himself stronger. And a lady in the locker room told me a story about buying 150 pounds of chocolate for her son (who happens to make candy for a living - once she told me that the story made MUCH more sense :). These people are great. And I always get my own lane too. :)
Regardless, I best be moving along. I have a run planned for later today on some trails and then tonight I'll be a spectator at O's game. More later...
Posted by beth at August 18, 2006 10:10 AM