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
Pizza Factory is always a great excuse. I wish mine were as good. Not that I think this belongs in your ‘swim’ blog, but it’s funny you should mention you’re ‘trying to ship a new version of your software.’ I thought your software was web-based?
Anyway – I’m happy to report that I ran 3 miles today. Cardiovascularly, I must be getting in better shape.
And on a side note, Brad Gilson says that ‘lungbusters’ sound just like something he thinks you would do. I told him I thought it was a good idea.
Yeah, our system is available to anyone with a browser, but we still have new versions of the system that have different capabilities. We’re in the final stages of putting the wraps on the next version. It has some new features, but mostly a bunch of improvements to stability and other bug fixes.
I really need to run this week. I think it’s almost Wednesday. My hours are sort of all blending together these days. I probably need to be getting more sleep if I want to have any chance of working out well. I think I’ve gotten between 3 and 4 hours of sleep each night for the past 5 or 6 days. I can tell it’s starting to catch up to me because even the Mountain Dew is losing its magic ability to keep me awake.
Soon it will be the weekend and I’ll be shifting into an even higher gear to work on a side business with some friends. I don’t know how much sleep I’ll get, but I can guarantee I’ll be eating a lot of cheese. I’ve really become quite the cheese bigot. It’s sort of funny, but also sort of sad. At Little America this year I was really disappointed with their cheese selection. Mozzarella, Cheddar, Havarti, Munster, and Swiss was all they had. That may have been fine several years ago, but now I skip all of those and head for real cheeses… of which they had none.
This is a comment? It’s long enough to be its own blog post. I guess I’ll stop now.