When the alarm went off this morning at 4:30 am, I sat in bed for a good 20 minutes debating whether I was going to wake up and go to swim practice. D tried to convince me to do the 1-hr postal swim workout with her this morning, but I haven't been getting a lot of sleep lately and I really wanted to sleep in. I decided I was going to weigh myself and if the number was higher than yesterday (I honestly thought it wouldn't be), then I'd go. Well, it was 0.6 lb higher which is not much, but enough to drag my butt out of bed and do the workout!
The one-hour postal swim is an annual January event where instead of doing a "workout" we get in and try to see how many continuous yards we can swim in 1 hour. I think our times get mailed to USMS and it's probably some kind of competition, but since my times are not competitive, I've never actually looked.
I can't remember my yardage from the past since I think I've only done this swim once and remember it kind of sucking. I didn't think it was going to be any better today seeing how I haven't been swimming and am not in great swim shape. But we had 3 of us in the lane and decided that we'd trade off leading by 500s so it would be easier to count and we could all take turns drafting. I did okay in the beginning but by the end, I was reaaaaaally dragging and swimming pretty slow. The coach said we started doing our 100s on 1:15 and ended at 1:30, which is a significant difference! Anyway, I was so glad when the whistle was blown and we were done. We ended up swimming 4250 yards, which is "okay" but I actually thought we might make it to 4500 yds. :)
This just makes me think about the strength I've lost since IM. I haven't been strength training at all even though it's listed on my schedule. I keep sleeping in or driving home instead of to the gym after work. I need to make it a priority again.
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