Monthly Archives: November 2007

Missed a day

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I’m not sure why, probably the pressure from Mike to get something in the blog again, but I was writing a blog post about the previous day directly before I went to work out. That doesn’t work very well for me… This time I waited until after I hit the pool to write about it.

In case you didn’t catch the subtlety there, I didn’t work out yesterday. I may not have even eaten yesterday I was so busy. Luckily Charmaine came in around dinner time with some pasta from the Pizza Factory in Lindon. The next time I looked up it was after midnight.

Today I am just as busy as yesterday. We’re trying to ship a new version of our software in the next couple days, so there’s an insane amount of things to get done… all at the last minute. But that’s the life of software engineering. I hate it when I miss two days in a row, so I forced myself to take an hour and hit the pool. Between driving, undressing, dress, and driving again, an hour doesn’t leave a lot of time for swimming, so I made my sets longer with less rest.

300 Free warm-up
4 x 200 Free (I’m guessing about 45 seconds to a minute rest between each)
4 x 100 Kicking (negative split: each 25 must be faster than the previous one)
200 Free warm-down
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1700 yards

I lied about running yesterday

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I didn’t mean to lie about it, but I did. I brought all my running stuff to work, but I ended up not running. I decided to swim at lunch, so I could run with Charmaine in the evening… but then I got in the zone at work and didn’t look up until it was almost 9 at night.

So here’s what I did in the pool:

500 Free warm-up
4 x 100 Free (Gold’s Gym sucks, the clock has been broken for about 45 days now)
4 x 50 Lungbuster (breathing every 3,5,7,9 strokes)
4 x 50 Freestyle Stroke Drill
2 x 100 IM (no stroke-drills, full strokes only)
200 Free warm-down
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1700 yards

Triathlon Bound

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A lot of the people I meet at the pool seem to be there for a specific purpose: training for a triathlon. They usually tell me that I should do a triathlon. According to them, I would be good. What they don’t know is that I may swim like an animal, but I can’t run worth crap, and I don’t have a road bike. Despite all that, I’ve decided that I am going to do a triathlon next year… not because I think I’ll do well, but because I think it will be fun.

I’m relatively sure that my running skills are my weakest link in getting ready for a triathlon, so I’ve started running on a treadmill once a week. Well, I’ve just barely started, so we’ll see how long I hold out. The first day I ran 2.0 miles at 6.5 miles per hour. That’s right, I was only “running” for about 20 minutes before I was dead. Interestingly enough, it was only my muscles that were dead. Cardiovascularly (is that a word?), I was fine. I couldn’t walk for the next 4 days and was still quite sore on days 5 and 6. But the next week came and I ran 3.2 miles in 31 minutes. I was pretty happy with that result. And the best part was that I only felt sore for about a day. After that I skipped a week, then ran 2 miles the week after that. I tried to run at 8.0 miles per hour for the first mile, but I only made it to about 0.75 mile marker before I had to walk. Since then I’ve skipped another week.

But today is Wednesday again, and that’s the day I’m supposed to run. So I’ll be heading out to run in about 15 minutes. I just wanted to get that in there in case I forget to post about it after lunch.