Here's something I love about this: It's all totally new. I got a golf score (seconds plus strokes for 50m) of 87 in the pool yesterday, I've never gotten sub 90 yet, and at the start I was getting 136, so it feels like a huge progress. Being new to this, everyday is a personal best, there's no past to measure up against.
I love that about having a coach too, I only know what I know, and being new to the sport that's not a lot. I love learning it in bite sized pieces, through conversations and workouts. Tiny steps.
Just saying, it's really healthy for me to practice not really knowing the big picture and just swimming one lap at a time when the whole workout is hard to wrap my head around.
Time off makes it way easier to do my workouts, I'm back on the pony, sore and feeling strong.
I swam 1.4 miles yesterday with a trainer ride. Today is a swim speed workout, trainer ride, and a track workout, and a trip to Portland.
Time on the trainer is also a great time watch ALOT of TV on the internet.
Here's the current faves:
Transgeneration is an eight episode documentary about the lives of four transgender college students. It's super inspiring in a coming of age make your own kid of music got to be me sort of way. Also it's on Netflix Instant Watch.
Also thanks to John and Abby, the Mighty Boosh is rocking my rides. Fuzzymanpeach.
The Epic Continues... This is the blog I started when I signed up and began training for Ironman Coeur d'Alene, my first Ironman triathlon (2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike, 26.2 mile run). I trained for 10 months. On June 26 20011 I went to Idaho to do it, something went wrong in the cold water, I didn't make the swim cut off and was pulled from the race. Huge bummer. In a fog of disappointment I signed up for Ironman Canada on Aug 28 to get er done.
I knew you'd make the right assessment of Old Gregg. Let's get some creamy biege soon.
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