Friday: Hardcore Swim

Today, remarkably, I was at swim on time. I am 99% sure that I was able to get to swim on time because I got out of bed around 6:30 AM-ish. I lived up to mu dream morning expectation of listening to a book on mp3 (The Blind Side, I love Michael Lewis, but that is for my book report), drinking green tea and working through some paper work. It was quite nice, and I must do it more often. By the time Ivan finally deigned to wake up and get out of bed, I had the car packed and my smoothie ready to go.

When I arrived at the pool for swim, my coach Steven looked at me and said, "Whoa, on time". I was pretty pleased with myself and it sort of solidified my interest in enrolling in summer speed sessions at 6:00 AM on Tuesdays. I like being up early enough to get something done and a Tuesday speed session will have me finished with my workout by 7:15 AM. There is a lot to be said for that.

Anyway, I was at swim on time and in the water early enough to get in a the majority of the full workout. I would like a gold star for this or a special cupcake or something. Workout as follows:

• 200 warm up
• 400 kick
• 5 x 100 @ 1:55
• 100 easy
• 4 x 100 @ 1:50
• 100 easy
• 3 x 100 @ 1:45
• 100 easy
• 2 x 100 @ 1:40
• 300 pull
• 200 pull
• 100 pull

This was 2900 meters (we swam long course today), and the main set was KILLER. The first 5 @ 100s were easy, the 4 @ 100s were surprising more difficult. I was fighting for the 3 x 100's, and I only made 1 of the 2 x 100s on the right interval. It was a fight at the end. Nick was sharing my lane, and I was pretty psyched when I passed him on the 3 x 100's. Nick is my swim buddy who passed me up when I swam the the mile for time, so I had to suppress a bit of triumph when I passed him. It made me think that I was not overtrained, and I could be a more competitive swimmer. It was exciting, but I was killing myself to make those intervals. It was my hardest workout of the week. At home, I was starving!! I love swim.

At home, I had a friend and her children to lunch, sunned myself a bit and a solo shopping excursion. I tried on clothes at my leisure, which was quite a change.

Watching Avatar. Am I the only person who hasn't see it?