It's All About The Voices In My Head!
Friday, September 23, 2011
SPOILER ALERT: This post contains an image of a few pieces of my Halloween attire!
It's all about the voices song in my head! That can sum up my workout this morning. It wasn't a super hard workout with lots of yardage is was all about the effort I put into the workout itself. A spin (24Cycle) instructor once said in class "You only get out of this class what you put into it" by which she meant if you put in a half assed effort you'll get a half assed result. It goes along with what Anna Kournikova said on The Biggest Loser the other night "If You Can Talk, You Can Keep Going!" Or at least that is what I thought she said. The point is that I had to self motivate myself this morning. And with that came a lame song that is on my Walkman (okay iPod and yes I'm dating myself!)
Yeah, it's corny. But I had it in my head and was swimming along to it this morning.
The workout:
200 Swim, 100 Pull, 200 Pull w/ Paddles and 200 Kick (700)
Then I was on my own. Which is tough. I sometimes miss having someone nipping on my feet to push me.
4x50's on 50
took 10 seconds extra rest
100 on 2 Minutes
3x200's FAST ("Good Effort") on 3:20
The 50's were to get my heart rate up so I made the interval on 50. The other folks did 6x50's before going into the 200's but I was told to do whatever I needed to get ready for the 200's so I did a 100. I figured going from a 50 to a 200 might be too much for me mentally to handle. But at least a somewhat fast 100 would give me a pace base. Now the 200's were to be fast or good effort and descend. I did a 2:21, 2:18 and 2:15. Not by best workout 200 times but good. I may have gone faster on the last one but thought I was going to puke so pulled back a bit on the 7th lap. Hey, at least I can count to 8! (900/1600)
I then did a 100 easy so only 1,700 yards. Once again it was all about effort. The 200's were okay for me. I won't be swimming again to Monday since I'm working this weekend. But I'll do some crosstraining at the gym. Today I'll be doing Group Power and tomorrow I'm planning to do Group Ride (spinning) and then Group Kick (kick boxing.) Sunday should be a recovery day.
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