To the pool...
Oct. 17th, 2003 10:03 amSo, I went to the pool this morning. Everything went according to plan, for once, although I was ten minutes late getting out of the house because I forgot to set my alarm. If it hadn't been for Kouryou-chan getting into bed with us at about that time, I might have missed it. My brain was insisting that, really, all this effort isn't really worth it, I don't seem to be getting much out of it. 'Course, this is only the third week and my tendonitis has diminished appreciably. Still can't do much more than 90 seconds worth of The Plank, but that's a different story.
I mananged the usual: 700 meters or so, mostly breast stroke and crawl with some backstroke kicking-only to improve the strength in my thighs and calves. They feel like lead right now; my forearms, too, and that's probably because I'm trying a more aggressive and energy-intensive crawl than usual. I even managed to butterfly for fifty meters, but that was about it.
And the right eye of my goggles keeps leaking. Usually, for the warm-up, I have to try over and over to re-seat it before it behaves. Finally, though, I did get it and the rest of the swim went without fail.
I seem to be at something of an attitudinal limit. I reached the 20 minute mark-- the minimum-- and after giving it another hundred meters gave up and decided that I'd done what I had to do, that was enough. I really should go at least the full half hour, and reach the full kilometer. Afterwards, I felt the nausea come back pretty hard, and the dizziness was there, but it wasn't so bad.
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I mananged the usual: 700 meters or so, mostly breast stroke and crawl with some backstroke kicking-only to improve the strength in my thighs and calves. They feel like lead right now; my forearms, too, and that's probably because I'm trying a more aggressive and energy-intensive crawl than usual. I even managed to butterfly for fifty meters, but that was about it.
And the right eye of my goggles keeps leaking. Usually, for the warm-up, I have to try over and over to re-seat it before it behaves. Finally, though, I did get it and the rest of the swim went without fail.
I seem to be at something of an attitudinal limit. I reached the 20 minute mark-- the minimum-- and after giving it another hundred meters gave up and decided that I'd done what I had to do, that was enough. I really should go at least the full half hour, and reach the full kilometer. Afterwards, I felt the nausea come back pretty hard, and the dizziness was there, but it wasn't so bad.
( News )
Oh, and even if you don't read the news, read this: Sex three times a week decreases your risk of heart disease, improves your physical fitness ("The bed is the best piece of exercise equipment ever invented"), reduces your risk of depression, lowers your susceptibility to colds and flu, reduces the risk of urinary incontinence in older years, and according to some reports might even improve oral health.
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