Did You Know it’s Light Out at 5:30am?

Now that I’m actually on a schedule, I feel like I have harder training days because I can’t just think, “oh, I’ll finish this workout tomorrow” or “maybe I need to work in some more rest time.” The schedule has other plans. I’m suppose to do something else tomorrow. I can’t put this workout off.

Yesterday was one of my harder days so far. First of all, it was Monday. That’s hard in itself. Secondly, I needed to ride for 75 minutes and swim for about, oh, a million laps or something. In order to do both, I got up at 5:20am to get to a 5:45 cycling class. (Did you know it’s actually light out at that hour? I had no idea.) Then, when everyone else headed to the showers at 6:30, I stayed in the cycling studio and rode another half hour. Insanity.

I worked a full day and headed back to the gym for some swimming. I made it about 27 laps. My shoulder started aching a little bit so I stopped at that point. I usually try not to strain myself, but Monday the H.IM had other plans.

The good news is all the swimming workouts I’m not quite finishing must be paying off. My friend who has been giving drills and tips said that my stroke is looking much better these days. Progress is good. Lindsay Brust