Done with the freakin exam and I'm back!!! February 19, 2006
Posted by clayton in : workout , trackbackBack with a cold though. My throat's been hurting since Thursday night and I wasn't able to focus on studying. So, what have I been doing for these past few days? I did NO training but studied my head off instead. The exams ended on Friday but as I said I have this one throat pain, I haven't been in the mood of training. What else happened? Well…
I received two racing numbers. no80 for the triathlon and no1935 for the marathon. I was suprised by the no80…It's a wave start and I start in the first wave…yikes!!! I'm gonna get killed in there!!! And the marathon, I only have one week left to train. The problem is that I haven't been running AT ALL. Now, I have an even bigger problem, I still think I could get through the finish line. I have no idea where the confidence comes from but I just don't feel the pressure, hehe.
Today, I still had my cold but drank some medicine and went to the swimming pool. Ran 3km for warm up or just to wake myself up. I'm beginning to have a hard time remembering what kind of training I did in the pool because there's just waaaay too much to remember. Here's one thing I know I did, I swam 7200m today. 3600m in the morning and another 3600m in the afternoon. It was IM practice, not ironman but individual medley. I'm getting the hang of swimming butterfly. I used to be half dead at 12.5m and completely dead at 25m but I was just fine today. To be honest, today was the first time that I ever had fun with IM practice. I'm usually like, "awww, damn it!!! do I really need to do this?" maybe being away from the pool for a few days helped.
One miracle happened today, the coach actually jumped in the pool, hehe. Haven't seen that ever since I joined the big guys but it's cool. He taught me how to "kick but not kick" while butterflying/breast stroking with the pull buoy. He also helped me to start on my journey to achieve the perfect flip turn. The first step, spin and land on the black line. Second step, do it after a few strokes. Third step, do it while swimming into a wall. Fourth step, do it and kick. I had a hard time kicking, just couldn't go straight after kicking. Today was a nice, valuable day.
Tomorrow: I hope my cold gets better. I hope it doesn't rain. I hope I run. I hope I bike. If it rains, I'll hop on the trainer and maybe play with the yoga ball, do some stretches/muscle training. I'm getting the hang of balancing on the ball without touching anything. Wait for the rain to stop and RUN!!!!
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