Tuesday totals

After a hard day lugging furniture around and working my machines i managed to get to the pool for a good 1.75 hour swim.

My plan was after my short bike ride on my bike trainer at home I would head out to the rec center for the 8:15 - 9:15pm  lane swim.

I left my house to go to the gym first for 6:30 to do some running and weights, ( not that I needed to  do weights? as with all the lifting I did today at work was equivalent to lifting 50lb kettle bells doing around 200 reps!! lol ) ...anyway as I get to the pool and I see it is open for public swim with a lane open for lane swimming, so I decided forget the running! I'll jump in the pool instead and get more then my planned 1hr swim!

I start swimming lengths with heavy arms due to all my lifting today but one I warmed up I felt better. I swam steady for 40 min, then the lifeguard tells me they are closing down the lane for aqua fit class which goes on for 45 min before they open up the lanes for lane swimming at 8:15pm...

So I decide I'll just stay in the pool head out to the deep end and pretend I'm doing aqua fit with the class.  I was doing my own version of aqua fit in the deep end while class was going on.

I mostly did water running, then some stationary hard kicking and arm waving workouts while treading and bobbing in the deep end the whole time. I treaded and bobbed my workout for the full 45 min until lane swim started up and then swam lengths another 20min before calling it a day!


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Solid Swim

I had a solid straight 6k swim Saturday in under 2 hours, maintaining a 3k/hr relaxed pace. I could have gone on longer, and was planning on going for another hour, but I was getting bored with the back and forth swimming in the pool. I can't wait to get out on the lake.

March break means I'm working day's this week, 7am-3pm  I hate it because I have to get up at 5am to get ready for work, so no morning swims. If i swim this week the only lane swim time is at 8:30pm - 9:30pm and that is to late for me, I might go a couple of times this week if I'm not to tired.  So instead my plan is to cut back my swim this week and work on my running, biking and weights which I can do after work and before dinner time.

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Thursdays swim

Today's workout......Just an easy 3000m and some diving, planing a big day for Saturday.

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Just swim

Todays swim,

200m warm up
20 x 100 in 1:40 on 2:00
300 warm down


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Back on track

Ok I'm feeling better, still congested but able to get back on track with my training.

Monday I swam 2000m and Today I swam 3000m  then did some diving for a while then went back and swam another 1000m  before going to work.


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Still sick

This cold is moving quickly from my sinus and throat into bouts of coughing fits and weakness. I still managed to go for a short easy swim of 2000m with these sets on Saturday

100m swim warm up
4x50m build
4x50m hard
4x50 race pace
2x50m easy
2x100 back....ok I don't do back so I did 50 breast 50 free
100m kick
5x100 mon 2:00
2x50m easy
300 warm down

Today still not feeing well and can't decide whether to go to the gym or not? Maybe not! ;)

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Man cold Alert!

Ha! So it wasn't because of not eating breakfast yesterday that made me cut my workout short leaving me with no energy!

It was/is a man cold coming on!! lol ...Yes, I have a man cold and am suffering with razorblades in my throat! as well as  being all stuffed up...Blah!

But I forced myself up and out of bed this morning to go swim, even though I don't have the energy.  I mainly went today because a friend of mine at the pool, Maxine, has been trying to connect me to her sister in-law Annette Who I have been trying to meet with phone calls the last two weeks to set up meetings but our timing has been off.

One of the reasons for meeting  Annette is she wants to be a swim pacer for my lake swim and said she has connections with boats on lake Ontario, with the possibility of getting me the owner with 37 foot sail boat that she races on to volunteer for my lake swim.

So with sore throat and lack luster strength to swim I met up with Maxine and she introduced me to Annette! ....So as it stands I now have another swim pacer on my team ( and a good swimmer to boot! ) and possibly my second boat!

Oh! I think I may have swam about 1000m But i didn't count? lol

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