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Here fishy, fishy!

I didn’t sleep all that well last night and woke up groggy and totally unmotivated. But, something silly like lack of sleep isn’t stopping me! I had a cup of green tea to wake me up (anyone who knows me might be surprised that I’ve taken to either drinking hot beverages or caffeine, but rest assured, both are normally banned for me, but some mornings, I just have to get going and I justify hot, caffeineted green tea because of its antioxidant value. Don’t worry, there’s no way I’m drinking coffee!), and then hustled my butt to the pool and jumped right in. The swim workout today was a another different one and was supposed to be about 3,000 yards in 1:15. Something is definitely screwy with that session though because even though I cut it a bit short (skipping most of the final 10 minutes of cool down), I still swam 3,650 and it took me nearly 1:30. The main set was 5×500 at moderate effort, and there was a lot of kicking and sculling. I swam the 500’s pretty strong, though not a strongly as yesterday’s 300’s. I’m comfortable blaming my weakness on yesterday’s swim.

Later, I went back to the gym for a quick strength training session. I’m in a strength “maintenance” phase, so, not counting the warm-up and cool-down on the bike, I was only lifting for about 20 minutes.

Swim – February 21
Time: 1:26
Distance: 3,650 yards

Strength – February 21
Time: 35 minutes