Just getting to my off day…
Charlie kept both of us up last night – Elizabeth barely slept and I was up pretty regularly from 2:30 on. That certainly didn’t help the body exhaustion I wrote about yesterday! Today, I’m tired in just about every way possible! Thankfully, tomorrow is the off-day. I wonder if I’ll this obsessed with my off-day every week for the next 8 months? Probably.
Anyway, this morning I got up to swim and lift. The swim went well. Today was my long set day and I swam for the 45 minutes in five sets (I think: 600, 550, 450, 400, 300) with only small breaks (20-40 seconds) between sets. It felt good. After swimming, I ate half a Clif Bar, had some Gatorade and did two circuits of my strentgh training. I was supposed to do 3-4 circuits today, but given the fact that this is a new, additional strength training session and that I’m trying to get three workouts in today, I didn’t feel badly skipping 1 or 2 circuits.
Tonight I had a going away dinner for a friend from Clifford Chance. I haven’t been going out very often on work nights, but I wanted to go to this dinner to congratulate her in person and see her off. The problem was that it didn’t leave me with a whole lot of time to get in my evening workout. I left work a little early and came home for a quick ride on the trainer. I was supposed to ride for 45 minutes, but only got 32 in. I feel like I don’t have a good excuse for skipping workouts, but on the other hand, I don’t miss them very often and I do have 8 months until the big day. I can’t let that be a habit, but every once in a while I can cut myself a little slack.
Swim – December 6
Time: 45 minutes
Distance: 2300 yards
Strength Training – December 6
Time: 30 minutes
Bike – December 6
Time: 32 minutes