11/22/16
I'm alive! Mexico was phenomenal and I got the chance to use my newly created swimming skills out in the ocean! We did a ton of snorkeling and now I'm sad that we have ZERO snorkeling in Texas. A cool thing I noticed was that I'm so much more confident in the water now than I ever have been. Whenever I've gone snorkeling before or had to swim in the ocean, I more or less panicked. This trip I actually enjoyed myself. It's great that the salt water helped make me extra buoyant as well!!
This morning I was back at the gym by 5:30am. I read that doing 16 lengths (back and forth) in a 25 meter pool is 400 meters. (Simple math escapes me again.) This is about how long most Sprint Tri Swim distances are. Well I've never really attempted to count all the lengths I swam since I was mostly focused on drinking less water.
Now that I'm writing all this down, it's clear to me I did my counts wrong. I wasn't counting a back and forth lap, merely counting each 'wall touch'. In that fashion I did 24. So it's actually...12 lengths. Damn, I was so close! Okay, well, tomorrow I'm aiming for 16 lengths! *sigh*
My lung capacity is getting better, finally. I am now able to do 3 strokes before needing to breathe. What's interesting about this (lol to nobody but me), is that it caused me to breathe on opposite sides. I'd only been practicing breathing on my R side, but when I tried this today, I felt hyperventalate-y. I also picked my mantra... "Damn this is easy." Eventually when I can get up to 4 strokes before breathing, the mantra and the strokes will line up.
I called about my bike and the guy was like 'I'm so glad you called! I couldn't remember what you wanted done!'... Well then... they had said it would be done BEFORE we went to Mexico, so they've had it for 2 weeks, maybe a bit longer and they haven't started it? Boo... I told Raz this and he said when we dropped the bike off, there was a guy in the store arguing with the mechanic saying basically the same thing. It should have been done a while back, should have been different, etc. Which lets me know that even though this shop is hella convenient, as in, Right Down the Street, I need to find a different one.
Currently my plan is to swim tomorrow morning so I can do a short run and a bike ride on Thursday.
*Oh, and thanks for the Unicorn Snot, Mole!*
I'm alive! Mexico was phenomenal and I got the chance to use my newly created swimming skills out in the ocean! We did a ton of snorkeling and now I'm sad that we have ZERO snorkeling in Texas. A cool thing I noticed was that I'm so much more confident in the water now than I ever have been. Whenever I've gone snorkeling before or had to swim in the ocean, I more or less panicked. This trip I actually enjoyed myself. It's great that the salt water helped make me extra buoyant as well!!
This morning I was back at the gym by 5:30am. I read that doing 16 lengths (back and forth) in a 25 meter pool is 400 meters. (Simple math escapes me again.) This is about how long most Sprint Tri Swim distances are. Well I've never really attempted to count all the lengths I swam since I was mostly focused on drinking less water.
Now that I'm writing all this down, it's clear to me I did my counts wrong. I wasn't counting a back and forth lap, merely counting each 'wall touch'. In that fashion I did 24. So it's actually...12 lengths. Damn, I was so close! Okay, well, tomorrow I'm aiming for 16 lengths! *sigh*
My lung capacity is getting better, finally. I am now able to do 3 strokes before needing to breathe. What's interesting about this (lol to nobody but me), is that it caused me to breathe on opposite sides. I'd only been practicing breathing on my R side, but when I tried this today, I felt hyperventalate-y. I also picked my mantra... "Damn this is easy." Eventually when I can get up to 4 strokes before breathing, the mantra and the strokes will line up.
I called about my bike and the guy was like 'I'm so glad you called! I couldn't remember what you wanted done!'... Well then... they had said it would be done BEFORE we went to Mexico, so they've had it for 2 weeks, maybe a bit longer and they haven't started it? Boo... I told Raz this and he said when we dropped the bike off, there was a guy in the store arguing with the mechanic saying basically the same thing. It should have been done a while back, should have been different, etc. Which lets me know that even though this shop is hella convenient, as in, Right Down the Street, I need to find a different one.
Currently my plan is to swim tomorrow morning so I can do a short run and a bike ride on Thursday.
*Oh, and thanks for the Unicorn Snot, Mole!*
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