Mind over matter? What's mind? No matter. What's matter? Never mind.
Friday, September 16, 2011
It wasn't like this mornings workout was a tough one physically but it was mentally. Never mind math problems in the morning it was a matter of me over comming my mental state. I wanted to just give up during the entire main set. Swimming on my own was not working for me this morning. The coach had some where to be so I was an unsupervised child wanting to skip out early.
Warm Up
200 Swim / 200 Pull / 200 Pull w/ Paddles /4x50's Kick on 1:05 / 4x50's Swim on 55 (1000)
Main Set:
5 Rounds
100 on 1:45
200 on 3:00
The 100 was to swim the pace that you planned to swim the 200 and the 200's were descended. That wasn't working for me. I took out my first 100 too fast then by the third one my 200 pace was faster then my 100 pace. Grrr...but I did descend. My 200's weren't great descends but they were 2:41, 2:35, 2:30, 2:25 and 2:19. On round three I messed up and did my 100 on 1:30. I kept on wanting to quit the set while I was swimming telling myself I'll never be able to descend. My body kept feeling like I was going to fall apart. Stiff, sore and just not all together. But I stuck it out and swam the set. (1500/2500)
I just did a 50 easy and got out. I should have did a longer warm down but I just wanted to get out and go home and eat! So 2.550 yards for this morning.