Friday as you know I went for a tired swim. To an extent this is a good thing because it made me work when tired a bit like the 20m long run helping you push when tired in a marafun.
So my weekend plan was to do a long cycle and then go to the pool with Gnome. Saturday morning I get up, breakfast well on home made museli (good slow burning fuel ideal for long runs and cycles!) and then popped to the villiage with the intention of coming home and going straight out on my bike on my planned 20m+ ride. On my way to the village I soon noticed (as in by the time I got off the driveway!) that the wind was a tad strong. I was being blown down the hill and walking up the hill was a head down and fight it affair!! By the time I got home I was of the mind that cycling would be a bad thing as I am not the fittest of people and I am a slow cyclist! So that was abandoned.
As I had also discovered that the cupboards where empty and that lunch was hot water and air I had to go shopping and by the time I had done that filled the cupboards and eaten lunch all planned exercise was out of my mind!
Sunday came and again it's blowing like mad outside! So Gnome and I were about to go swimming when we remembered he had parade from boys brigade! So made dash there!! Followed by lunch and finally we got to the pool!
We were there for about 70mins and even then I struggled to get him out! So what did we do .... well I warmed up with 100m of gentle swimming then on with the jogger for 30mins jogging. This was not as easy as planned as Gnome (who was in the main pool for the 1st time and not very good at swimming) kept on getting bored and wanting to see what I was up to!
After that he tried the jogger out and loved it!! This was followed by a good 30mins of "water acrobatics" as Gnome called it! He just about managed a hand stand and almost got the forward roll! I had to demonstrate both!!! He also pinched my nose clip and was much happier with using that! So I had an attempted at swimming head down without it, which was horrid but I managed it! I also did some widths of front crawl which seemed easier than Friday in that legs, arms and breathing all worked but the legs tired easily. Hopefully this is something that will improve soon and was also affected by my earlier jogging!
I'm starting to enjoy my swimming even if I am crap at it!! Also I like it when I get the odd improvement (even if it is just for a few seconds!!) so it's good!
I'm back in the pool tonight and again it will be a straight swim but this time I will not do drills just length after length to see how my strength is going! Jogging on Wednesday and also Thursday or Friday (depending on if I have to collect Gnome after school!) then a Gnome swim at the weekend.
I have noticed this weekend that by the end of the day my heel has been tender and that's just from the normal time of feet thing with no extra running or walking so I guess I will not be running at all this week. Physio Thursday so I will speak to him then and see what he thinks too!
So my weekend plan was to do a long cycle and then go to the pool with Gnome. Saturday morning I get up, breakfast well on home made museli (good slow burning fuel ideal for long runs and cycles!) and then popped to the villiage with the intention of coming home and going straight out on my bike on my planned 20m+ ride. On my way to the village I soon noticed (as in by the time I got off the driveway!) that the wind was a tad strong. I was being blown down the hill and walking up the hill was a head down and fight it affair!! By the time I got home I was of the mind that cycling would be a bad thing as I am not the fittest of people and I am a slow cyclist! So that was abandoned.
As I had also discovered that the cupboards where empty and that lunch was hot water and air I had to go shopping and by the time I had done that filled the cupboards and eaten lunch all planned exercise was out of my mind!
Sunday came and again it's blowing like mad outside! So Gnome and I were about to go swimming when we remembered he had parade from boys brigade! So made dash there!! Followed by lunch and finally we got to the pool!
We were there for about 70mins and even then I struggled to get him out! So what did we do .... well I warmed up with 100m of gentle swimming then on with the jogger for 30mins jogging. This was not as easy as planned as Gnome (who was in the main pool for the 1st time and not very good at swimming) kept on getting bored and wanting to see what I was up to!
After that he tried the jogger out and loved it!! This was followed by a good 30mins of "water acrobatics" as Gnome called it! He just about managed a hand stand and almost got the forward roll! I had to demonstrate both!!! He also pinched my nose clip and was much happier with using that! So I had an attempted at swimming head down without it, which was horrid but I managed it! I also did some widths of front crawl which seemed easier than Friday in that legs, arms and breathing all worked but the legs tired easily. Hopefully this is something that will improve soon and was also affected by my earlier jogging!
I'm starting to enjoy my swimming even if I am crap at it!! Also I like it when I get the odd improvement (even if it is just for a few seconds!!) so it's good!
I'm back in the pool tonight and again it will be a straight swim but this time I will not do drills just length after length to see how my strength is going! Jogging on Wednesday and also Thursday or Friday (depending on if I have to collect Gnome after school!) then a Gnome swim at the weekend.
I have noticed this weekend that by the end of the day my heel has been tender and that's just from the normal time of feet thing with no extra running or walking so I guess I will not be running at all this week. Physio Thursday so I will speak to him then and see what he thinks too!
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