Wednesday 12/09/09

Wednesday AM, another swim workout on the schedule. Another frigid morning greeted me as I went to my car at 4:50 AM. The Mazda was again covered in frost, but I had my trusty new Ice scraper to solve that problem. It worked like a charm.

This was a little shorter than yesterday's yardage, which was fine by me. I was in the pool by 5:10 and doing my warm-ups. I felt tired in the arms from yesterday's workout, but my legs felt recovered from Saturday's workout. I had cramped badly in the pool on Saturday and felt it 3 days later.

I got through my drills without incident and started on the meat of the workout. Nothing major to report. I feel my form coming along. Mike had me work on "3 switches drill". I got the idea of where he wanted me to be with my form, but felt it to be exhausting. Basically, he wants me to start my rotation with my kick, then my hips and into my shoulders. I need to roll more on my side when I am not breathing.

The rest of the workout went well, like I said it was shorter than Tuesday's workout.

I tried a flip turn for the first time in 30+ years. I 'll need to continue working on the form for those. The flip turn was NOT pretty or graceful.

I was supposed to run tonight for 45 minutes. That didn't happen.
Thursday AM is supposed to be a bike, I think I'll continue swimming.

Dory from "Finding Nemo" comes to mind,

"Just keep swimming, just keep swimming,...."