Wow I actually swam today haha
Topic: Thoughts About My Workout
When I first woke up this morning, I wasn't planning on swimming because I actually felt a bit ill. Stuffy nose as usual (I'm constantly taking over the counter medicine for my sinuses), felt a bit of a chest cold, plus I had a bit if diarrhea and no appetite... yeah, I know you all wanted to know that!!!

But by lunch time I decided to make myself go, but I edited my workout a bit since I'd hardly eaten anything. I did my 200 sprints, but held off on the 8 100's, instead just doing a slow 300 because I didn't feel like I had the strength for any more sprints regardless of length or stroke. I was planning to do 8 100's IM order after the 200 sprints but my strength was just gone, I'm sure due to my lack of food. Besides that, my 200 times were a lot faster than usual. I've been averaging 3:45 and today my slowest time was 3:35 for my last four 200s. My fastest 200 time was 3:12 so I am quite proud of myself for that! It's always nice to see some improvement!!

I'm really glad I decided to go. I ran into Kent again though as I was leaving. I met him last Friday after I finished swimming when we were sitting in the jacuzzi. He seems like he is interested in me and I am really not attracted to him physically. He's a bit overweight (but not too horrible) and I don't like guys who are overweight. I know it sounds really shallow! He asked me if I would be at the rec center tomorrow and I said I'd be there around 1pm. Now he's going to go tomorrow expecting me to be there. Why is it that I always find these overweight men interested in me? They probably like me because I am thinner than they are hahaha.

I am so tired ...
Topic: Thoughts About My Workout
Another workout where I didn't think I was going to finish it. After my third 200 backstroke I was sure I wouldn't get past five of them but somehow I managed to finish all ten of them. I was so amazed that I was able to finish it! I was so tired too and still am.

I feel more physically tired than sleepy and have been yawning an awful lot during the last hour or so. I don't know how long it will take for me to get used to these hard workouts. It's weird because I don't remember being this exhausted when I'd start on a new swim team when I was younger. Maybe it's just me getting older, I don't know. At the same time, I also wasn't swimming 4000 yard workouts in high school and college except for the one year on my high school swim team.

I'm not sure what sort of workouts I swam when I swam for Scottsdale Aquatics Club in Scottsdale in fifth and sixth grade. I just remember that I could never keep up with everyone else and that I wasn't swimming every day at that time. Now I wonder how I would have done if I had gone to practice every day back then, but at the time I hated it because everyone was so much faster than me. It's hard to say. Well now is my chance to find out even though I'm 15 years older than I was then.

Wow, I can't believe it was nearly 15 years ago when I quit that swim team. I don't even remember what our mascot was. It's almost half my lifetime ago.