I got up and ran this morning but not before falling for the 1st April Fools Prank of the day. I'm sure they'll be more as it's still early! In my email box came the introduction of the greatest new nutritional product...GU DermaCharge Topical Gel DermaCharge is Gu Energy's first product in the small but growing market for Transdermal Topical Electrolyte and Energy Infusion Gels. One recent laboratory athlete noted "It's the next greatest thing since the original Energy Gel - getting your electrolytes and calories through osmosis is great - I don't have to worry about digestion or drinking - I just apply it and hit the gas!" Yes, you too can look like this...
Mmmm...rub on six pack! Okay, so it's not real. But Gu Energy is having a great sample try "Free Samples of the ALL NEW and COMPLETELY REAL GU Brew Electrolyte Tablets and a chance to win a box of 10 tubes."
With that April Fool's Joke out of the way I was off and running...
It was a craptastic run. After about a mile I just wasn't feeling it. I was tired and unmotivated. Was so ready to give up and walk home. Then I slowly started to feel better and picked up the pace. It was only 4 miles-ish since I had to get home and get ready for swim at 7am. I think my Nike+ Sportband calibration is off again. I've done this run several times before and this is the lowest that it has ever registered with the device mile wise. Whatever. It's April now and the new Nike+ GPS Tom Tom Watch comes out sometime this month. I need to save lots of my pennies for that so I doubt I'll be getting it soon. But it's on my shopping wish list. Come on lottery!
After my run I came home, drank some water and headed to swimming. Today's swim was just that, a swim. Nothing too hard. Well the math alone was hard enough. The coach had to be somewhere so he gave us the workout and left. Problem being was that all of us swimming have issues with remembering intervals and sets. So needless to say we kept screwing up and getting extra rest.
Warm Up
200 Swim / 150 Pull / 150 Kick (500)
Main Set:
10x150's
1-5 Free as follows 50 Drill / 25 Kick / 25 Swim / 25 Swim Non-Free on 2:25 then 25 Sprint Free on 40. Yeah we kept messing up. That is when we could actually see the clock. After these 5 we stopped and I went to get another clock for the other end.
1-5 Stroke same as above but stroke and 25 free instead of the non-free. We did these on 2:45 and 45. Sort of. I did these butterfly. (1500/2000)
6x75's Pulling breathing 3/4/5 by 25 on 1:15 (450/2450)
So a 4 mile run and 2,450 yard swim. Nothing great but a work out just the same. Tomorrow is recovery day so no running, swimming, cycling, spinning, weight training or anything besides tv watching!
