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January 14, 2008
Pool, Pull, Paddles and PT (and Weight Lifting Too)
So this morning I hit up the pool for my long swim day. I have a love/hate relationship with long swim intervals. I should love them because I'm far better suited to longer, endurance type efforts. In college I was a 10K runner and trust me, I never got to run on the distance medley relay! But the problem with the long swim intervals is that...well...they're long. And that makes them hard. And I often lose count of which lap I'm on. Bugger!
But today was much better than last Monday's 600 repeats. Today was 500s and lots of them (okay, not that many, but still I was tired at the end). Definitely starting to get my groove back. Not to say I'm in any kind of good shape, but I at least feel as if I have my own body back from the alien that overtook it the past several weeks. Moving in the right direction.
Regardless, two of the 500s today were pull. After discussing things over with my coach we decided to start using paddles some. Usually pull only means the pull buoy to me and although I have paddles (two different sizes no less!) and have used them before, they are used very sparingly. So today I decide I'm going to use the small paddles for one of the 500s.
Of course I totally forgot that when the time came.
I remembered about 300 yds into the repeat at which point I decided the paddles were going to have to wait until next time. I'm excited to add this new toy to my collection though because I will do ANYTHING to make my shoulders stronger. I may be the only girl on earth that wants a bigger back and shoulders, but hey, whatever... :)
After work I had a PT appointment. I really like my PT. He tells funny stories while making my hamstring hurt very badly. The stories make the pain much less noticeable. I feel like we are getting somewhere with my hammy too. More mobile and less pain. Just like my chronic PF I will probably always have to keep on top of it but I want to get to that point where I'm not worried about it all the time. We're getting there, slowly but surely.
After the PT appointment I went to the YMCA to lift. And the weight room was PACKED. Now remember, this is a YMCA, not a gym that costs $100/month, so the weight room is small and the equipment limited but by the grace of God every time I needed a machine or a bar or a weight it was available! I must have had that I'm-really-hungry-stay-out-of-my-way look going on! Good deal!
And so it goes. It's snowing and O tells me we might be in for some serious snow later in the week. Hopefully it holds off until I can get at least one more run in on the trail before it's snow covered until April!
Have a great night everyone!
Posted by beth at January 14, 2008 7:05 PM