Did I say 8km? March 26, 2006
Posted by clayton in : workout , add a commentWell, I thought it'll be about 8km total for today's swim but it didn't quite go as I thought it would. Had a 3km run, morning swim, 6km jog and an afternoon swim.
The morning swim: Man, was I lonely…None of the swimmers came. Wasn't surprised either because the fastest guy burned out, one girl said she wasn't gonna come, another girl goes to cram school, another girl barely comes and another guy never comes on Saturday morning. 400m warm up, 200m*3 kick(6:00, my weak point…), 100m*14 pull(2:00), 2sets of 200m*1swim(3:30)+25m*8swim(0:30), 25m*4 sprints which turned out to be 30m*4 because the coach said I need to practice my flip turns, then finally 100m cool down. Total of 3400m for the morning. I really didn't have any time to think about how lonely I was, hehe. I felt lonely after the swim.
6km jog: First of all, my way of deciding what I'd call a "jog" or a "run" depends on the distance and time. It it's 10km+, I call it a run. If my pace is faster than or at 5min/km, I call it a run. If not, it's a jog. 1st lap-9'17, 2nd-11'08, 3rd-11'01. Total of 31'26. I wasn't in the mood to go out and run but I felt guilty after saying I'll run and ended up not running for the past few days. So, I went in the middle, went out for a jog. No panting, no pain and it felt pretty good with the sun shining.
Afternoon swim: 400m warm up, 2sets of 25m*16swim(0:30), 50m*40(1:00), 50m*2sprints, 25m*4sprints, 100m cool down. This time, the girl who goes to cram school and the guy who never comes on Saturday morning came. At first, I was shocked when I saw 50m*40 but it wasn't hard at all, I guess I was just scared of the number 40, hehe. Swam a total of 3500m in the afternoon. After the swim, the cram school girl and the guy who never comes on Saturday morning both went home pretty fast so I made a decision…I played around with the little kids. They're funny, first they talk about swimming and 2seconds later, they start talking about cartoons and then after another second they talk about their dreams, amazing… One of the kids came up to me and said, "I wanna ride a bike" because the coach had his outside and the next thing he said was, "I wonder if I could become a professional swimmer" How can they connect "riding a bike" to "becoming a professional swimmer." Anyway, it was nice swimming and playing around.
Tomorrow: I'll take it easy, maybe go out for a ride or stay on the trainer. Maybe go out for another jog. Definately gonna clean my room!!! There's so much clothes on my desk that I found my cat sleeping on it today…