The first thing I did this morning was weight myself. I was 185.4 lbs. Ideally I'd like to be about 181 lbs for IMLP. I'll be posting my daily weight until IMLP.I ate so well all day until post dinner, when I had that Aero McDonald's McFlurry and the half carton of Heavenly Hash ice cream. It immediately put me in a two hour sugar coma.
The upside of being in a sugar coma is at least you can't eat. I'm going to take the "my body must be craving something in the ice cream" excuse, as opposed to, "I have no will power and dieting hurts too much" excuse.
I did two training sessions today. The first was a 4000 meter swim, followed by weights. At this stage of the game, I normally don't do weights, but I decided I needed to strengthen my arms for swimming.
I've only been swimming about once a week for the past few weeks. I hate swimming. No matter how much I swim, I only race about 3 seconds per 100 faster than if I swim two times a week. I also find I can get my swimming speed back if I do three or four sessions within a week.
My plan is to get about 4 more good swims before IMLP and I should be ready. Biking and running is a different story, you can't make up any missed workouts for those sports, so I haven't. Based on trying to achieve my blistering pace of 1:47 - 1:50 per 100 during a race, I should be able to get there with a three or four good swims before next Sunday.
I also did weights today. I did 2 sets on the upper body and 1 set on the lower body. Over the last three years I've learnt what works for me and what doesn't. Too much rest and taper doesn't work for me. Doing upper body weights will really help with my swim strength. For the lower body, I did low weight and only one set. Other than helping to strengthen my hip area, my lower body doesn't need weight training.
Overall, I was happy with today's training. I don't know how fast I swam in the pool because I forgot my watch, which is probably a good thing based on my fragile swim psyche.
Mod Swim - 4000 meters / 1:21:00
Weights - 40 minutes / end & Chisel
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3 comments:
That is an awesome swim distance. You have a strong pace for 2.4 miles B!
I am hoping I don't have the "my body is craving ice cream" itch. I have dropped 9 lbs this week just by cutting out ice cream and beer (amazing isn't it?) oh and cleaning up some of my diet.
Keep up the good work! Check out my blog today haha, had an incident on our ride last night and ended up at the police station haha!
WOW! I wish I could swim half as strongly as you! Congrats on the weight loss, keep it up. How is it that you lose weight while eating ice cream??? I want to do that.
M, thanks. Good work on dropping the 9 lbs, that must have been one hell of a dump. haha.
M, thanks. I don't think I'm losing weight on the ice cream, I must be dehydrated.
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