Hey gang,
I'm being watchful of the weather (and a free-lance deadline)--so I'm hoping that I don't run into the same problem as I did about a week ago.
At that time, I had set out to do a pretty long workout (need the yards for my open water swim!). Unfortunately, the lifeguards chased us out of the pool b/c of hearing thunder. They told me that they'd wait a half hour, but that the clock would be reset if there was more thunder.
Won't even get started on why this should be the case, but more important for my purposes is to get a sense of what you do if your schedule is tight and the time you set up for swimming a specific workout is thrown out due to something like this (heck, you can substitute other events that close pools, if you want, as the t-storm is just one way such a thing can happen).
Do you wait until who knows how long and hope the pool will reopen? Do something dry-land that will at least use the swimming muscles? Bag it and decide it's not your day? (As it happened, it was last Friday and although I'm not superstitious, mostly, it seemed as if that day was full of things that went wrong. Won't go into all that.)
I want--no, NEED, to make sure I'm staying abreast of the training and I hate missing time for something like that--and probably just need to plan better to go early in the morning when there are fewer thunderstorms--but that said, stuff happens (even early in the morning), so I want to have a good back-up plan--or be all Zen about it and know that over the long haul, I'll be ready.
Thanks for any thoughts!
Well, my happy news today is that I was able to do my workout--all 7200 yards--without weather interference, thank you God!
I think that sometimes I get kinda stressed about making sure I keep up with the workouts b/c it's a 5 miler, and I'm none too fast, but I know at least I can swim on and on for a while--today's workout called for 6000 yards, including a minimum 300 yds warm-down. My times were slower than they were supposed to be for the rest of the workout but somehow getting to that warm-down was such a relief that I kind of got on a roll and went for 3x500 easy, to get in the extra yards. At that point, oddly, my stroke felt better--I felt more relaxed, knowing that I'd done what was prescribed and wanting to swim just to swim for a bit, no times to aim for, just moving through the water in a nice hypnotic rhythmic way. It seems so much easier to up-end a swim workout and so that makes for some stress when a key workout is coming up--and when I finish it, the relief is so immense that I get new energy.
p.s. re the swim/swam/swum question--heck, why not just add "swimmed" to the mix! :) :worms:
Well, my happy news today is that I was able to do my workout--all 7200 yards--without weather interference, thank you God!
I think that sometimes I get kinda stressed about making sure I keep up with the workouts b/c it's a 5 miler, and I'm none too fast, but I know at least I can swim on and on for a while--today's workout called for 6000 yards, including a minimum 300 yds warm-down. My times were slower than they were supposed to be for the rest of the workout but somehow getting to that warm-down was such a relief that I kind of got on a roll and went for 3x500 easy, to get in the extra yards. At that point, oddly, my stroke felt better--I felt more relaxed, knowing that I'd done what was prescribed and wanting to swim just to swim for a bit, no times to aim for, just moving through the water in a nice hypnotic rhythmic way. It seems so much easier to up-end a swim workout and so that makes for some stress when a key workout is coming up--and when I finish it, the relief is so immense that I get new energy.
p.s. re the swim/swam/swum question--heck, why not just add "swimmed" to the mix! :) :worms:
