Since I re-committed to swimming in May I've been keeping track of the amount of yards I swim per week. My "minimum" is to hit the pool four times a week, but in practice that minimum became three times (which I'm not really that happy about...)
Anyways, on
my swim plan I'm up to 1500 yards a day. I've been stuck on it because I slacked off completely last week (in my defense, I was really sick and I had to take two days off from work that week.)
So, first day this week in the pool there was a massive storm that hit Boston. We're talking tornado warnings and actual hail that smashed car windshields.
(Not my pics.)
In typical New England weather fashion, the blue skies were back after about thirty minutes. However, 70% of the way through my set they blew the whistle and ordered us out of the pool because of "thunder." Whatever. After a nothing week, I was sort of relieved to be forced to take it "easy" the first day back in the water.
Second day I was meeting a friend for dinner and wasn't able to get the last 200 in.
I was kinda struggling though, my form went to shit after just a week out of water. Ugh.
Then today I finally completed the whole set. My form was still kinda shitty but a little better. I kept pulling to the right for some reason, then realized I was catching much weaker on my left than right. I also kept "drifting" with my feet every other catch, and then like a motor on bad gasoline I "sputtered" back into rhythm.
Oddly I noticed some of my problems might be related to how deliberate my pace was. On the last two laps I said "fuck it" and went ham. I should have timed myself but it felt like I did 50 yards in 30s, which isn't close to competition times but it felt pretty damn fast.
I'm happy with myself because this is the second-most I've ever swam in a week, and I've given myself either Friday or Saturday to push that over the edge. It's likely I'll hit 5350 this week (
A NEW RECORD!)
Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Total
5/10 500 500 500 500 2000
5/17 700 700
5/24 700 700
5/31 700 700
6/7 900 900 1800
6/14 0
6/21 900 900 1800
6/28 900 1000 1000 2900
7/5 1200 1200 1200 1200 4800
7/12 1500 1500
7/19 1500 1500 3000
7/26 0
8/2 1050 1300 1500 3850
As you can see I don't hit four times a week nearly as often as I should. If there's even one day during the week that I decide to go out with friends, then the likelihood of me hitting four times drops by like 90%. It's hard to motivate myself to go on the weekends because that's basically a trip to work in terms of commute, and half the pool is given to family swim on Saturday and Sunday (in addition to them closing early.)
I've done it, both times I hit four days was because I went on Saturday, but yeah, it's rough.
Might do it Saturday, but I'm going out that night so I don't know...
I need to start going before work instead of after. If I can manage to do that, the chances of me hitting the water four times a week becomes close to 100%. Problem is, I'm not a morning person and never have been. I've gotten up for work twice this week an hour before leaving and that's pretty much all I can manage. I'd need to get up at least an hour earlier than that, if not an hour and a half, to be able to pull it off. But y'know, you gotta set goals for yourself. This is just another one I need to knock out.
Anyways. Just wanted to post some progress. Last week I noticed my stomach was slightly, slightly, slightly more defined. Starting out with super low body fat probably helps.
Shame the summer's almost over and I'm only hitting my beach body image goal now.
I'm also not nearly as tan as I wanted to be at this point.
Pretty much a cliche by this point, but this is deffo my anthem right now:
