Mar 26
If they hadn’t drained out the oxygen, swimming workout would have been fine
Cats: Uncategorized, odd things|I hit the pool yesterday for the first time in 10 days.
I wasn’t expecting it to be too painful. Sure I had a few days off, but I was skiing and dog sledding. Surely that would keep me fit.
Ha.
Hahahahaha.
How wrong I was.
It felt like there was no oxygen in the air above the pool.
I huffed and puffed and gasped for air. I swore at the end of my sprint sets. And I complained like a banshee.
My coach laughed at me.
My teammate commiserated. She had a cold.
So much for maintaining cardio fitness over time.
What will Friday’s workout bring: redemption or death?
March 26th, 2009 at 10:26 am
I haven’t been swimming since October. I always plan to keep swimming in the winter, but I just don’t enjoy swimming indoors nearly as much as outdoors. I’m at the pool every week for my sons’ practice, and I always think “hmm…I should swim laps while I wait for them”. I’ll be back in the pool in May.
March 26th, 2009 at 11:55 am
I only swim in the ocean because I have this thing about pee. Which really just means that I end up swimming in the biggest, coldest toilet in the world.
Whatever lets me sleep at night.
March 26th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
I’m a lousy swimmer. And I don’t think treading water is a very good workout, so I don’t bother going to the pool very often.
March 26th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
I am now eying the elliptical with suspicion. I know it’s going to try to kill me.
March 26th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
All that fresh air is messing with your smog conditioned lungs. Don’t worry the chlorine / benzene balance should return in a few weeks.
March 26th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
you were SKIING? At Marble??
How was “Check Me Shorts” (or is that Smokey?) and “OMJ”??
March 31st, 2009 at 12:23 pm
cdp, aww, another swimmer then.
Racquel, you are probably very wise
Becks treading water is vile. I know. I do it in my workouts.
Lisa, hahahahahaha. Elliptical angst.
Dick, thanks now I feel better
YAM, yes Marble and yes OMJ and it was icy. So double OMJ!