I can't sit still...

With my knee hurting and in talking with my coach, I decided to rest it, as I need it to be 100% for the Ironman and that is only 5 weeks away.

My plan today was to do nothing, but I couldn't. I was sitting on the couch at 7:45 pm going nuts, I didn't know what to do with myself. Sitting and watching TV was not something I was used to. At that moment I decided to go to the YMCA and finish off the swim I started yesterday. Swimming and cycling does not really effect my knee like running does.

I ended up swimming 2200 meters, hard. It was a speed work session and I had some great times, finally. For some of the 100's, I was swimming at 1:38. For one of the 50's I did it in 43 seconds and I went so hard, I couldn't have went 1 second faster. I felt really good mentally as well. At the pool, there was a guy who was going as fast as I was on a kick board, I couldn't believe it, nor could anyone else at the pool. This guy was like a motor boat, I would never have guessed that a guy could do 100's at a 1:40 pace on a kick board.

During yesterday's swim I was ruminating about an email I got from my son's hockey league head office. I am coaching my son's team. They had a complaint that I was using an illegal player, a Rep player who should not have been on the team, which I was. I just couldn't believe they caught me and now they wanted answers. They told me the players number was 27, but my rep player did not have a jersey with 27 and I told them that, hoping they would go away. But they didn't. They insisted I had a player, then I told them I did have a rep player who was a year younger and from the players pool and he only scored 1 goal and we lost anyways. They then emailed me back and told me that they made a mistake, it was another coach named Payne that had the illegal player and they emailed me by mistake! Whew, I was nearly busted.

After the swim last night, I sat on the couch, watched the Tour de France and iced my knee with a bag of peas.