makes a whole load of difference!
Yesterday I stayed at home, the headache didn't go until about 3 and the 3rd lot of drugs. Woke up this morning and the headache was back but less sore, so took some paracetamol and ibuprofen together and that sent it packing fairly quickly.
This meant I was able to keep my promise and take Gnome swimming after lunch today. We've just got back! Yes another 70mins of messing about! He's starting to improve a lot and wants to swim more often which is great. I'm all for encouraging fitness! Add this to his plans of walking Hadrian's Wall with V-Rap and the kids next year and I can see a fit Gnome in the future! Another reason to lose the weight - to keep up with him!
Most of the time in the pool was messing about, with me trying to impart some wisdom on him and help him swim. Today he managed to swim both on his front and his back a whole width of the big pool without any floatation aids! Ok so he wears goggles and now (like his mother!) gets over the nose-up-water problem with a nose clip but if that gives him the confidence to get swimming then fine. He can't use the clip at school so will still have to work on breathing but we're getting there!
I was able to get a few lengths in too. I did a timed length of front crawl in 31secs! An improvement of about 10secs in these last couple of weeks of training hard! Breast stroke was 35secs which used to be nearer 45-50 when I timed before (as in before this recent swimming session so last year!) Proof that I am getting better! I'm much more confident at crawl now too! OK So I die on the end of a 2nd length but I used to die doing 1! (beams)
Finally I did 10lengths timed in 7mins 30. Last year I would be taking nearly 9mins for 10lengths! Just shows what improvements can be made with a bit of work!
I'm hoping that all this swimming is maintaining CV fitness so that when I go back to plodding I don't suffer too much! OK I know my legs will be unhappy and with Reading just over a month away I think I will be doing walk run with shorter run sets than at BM (maybe 5:1 coach??) but with the crash and the PF Reading is no longer a PB run really is it! So I will enjoy my birthday meal out and enjoy the run/day with my mates!!
Tomorrow I hope to do either a long bike ride of about 2hrs or a long swim of over 1hr.
Oh and the WW so far is going well! I haven't said anything but my tracker has been on the desk so maybe hubby has seen it and chosen not to say anything. Right ... off to have a bath with Fraggle's lovely soap to stop me smelling of a swimming pool!
Yesterday I stayed at home, the headache didn't go until about 3 and the 3rd lot of drugs. Woke up this morning and the headache was back but less sore, so took some paracetamol and ibuprofen together and that sent it packing fairly quickly.
This meant I was able to keep my promise and take Gnome swimming after lunch today. We've just got back! Yes another 70mins of messing about! He's starting to improve a lot and wants to swim more often which is great. I'm all for encouraging fitness! Add this to his plans of walking Hadrian's Wall with V-Rap and the kids next year and I can see a fit Gnome in the future! Another reason to lose the weight - to keep up with him!
Most of the time in the pool was messing about, with me trying to impart some wisdom on him and help him swim. Today he managed to swim both on his front and his back a whole width of the big pool without any floatation aids! Ok so he wears goggles and now (like his mother!) gets over the nose-up-water problem with a nose clip but if that gives him the confidence to get swimming then fine. He can't use the clip at school so will still have to work on breathing but we're getting there!
I was able to get a few lengths in too. I did a timed length of front crawl in 31secs! An improvement of about 10secs in these last couple of weeks of training hard! Breast stroke was 35secs which used to be nearer 45-50 when I timed before (as in before this recent swimming session so last year!) Proof that I am getting better! I'm much more confident at crawl now too! OK So I die on the end of a 2nd length but I used to die doing 1! (beams)
Finally I did 10lengths timed in 7mins 30. Last year I would be taking nearly 9mins for 10lengths! Just shows what improvements can be made with a bit of work!
I'm hoping that all this swimming is maintaining CV fitness so that when I go back to plodding I don't suffer too much! OK I know my legs will be unhappy and with Reading just over a month away I think I will be doing walk run with shorter run sets than at BM (maybe 5:1 coach??) but with the crash and the PF Reading is no longer a PB run really is it! So I will enjoy my birthday meal out and enjoy the run/day with my mates!!
Tomorrow I hope to do either a long bike ride of about 2hrs or a long swim of over 1hr.
Oh and the WW so far is going well! I haven't said anything but my tracker has been on the desk so maybe hubby has seen it and chosen not to say anything. Right ... off to have a bath with Fraggle's lovely soap to stop me smelling of a swimming pool!
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And yes - you swimming will keep up your CV fitness - and once your legs get used to running again, you'll not be as far behind as you thought you were!!!
take care
Why can't Gnome use the clip at school? Grrrrrrr!