Make like a fish... and swim!
Wednesday 13/12/06:
Don't know why, but all day its felt like it should be Friday already! For about a week now I've been promising myself I'll get to bed before 11pm to get some extra sleep - so far I've failed every night! Felt tired when the alarm kicked in at 5.45am, but then remembered today was a jogging day and that propelled me out of bed and out the door! God I'm sad!
Rather humid out this morning with lots of low cloud about. Headed up and out of my sub-division and along the main road. Leg is now feeling completely normal when walking and striding it out feels good. After 10mins I went into a slow jog. I was amazed at how good the leg continued to feel! Picked it up a bit to my usual "easy pace" and continued on for 18mins which gave me approx 3kms. By the end of that I was feeling the leg a little more, but it was still really good compared to previously. Yippee! Another 12mins of walking saw me back home. I even worked up a sweat today for the first time in ages - but then like I said, it was rather humid.
Really happy with how it went today anyway.
This evening, despite not getting away from work till 5.30pm, I was determined to get to the pool! I think my swim cap and goggles had thought they were never going to see the light of day ever again! Got home, had dinner, did homework with Courtney and had her ready to jump into bed by the time I left the house at 7.45pm. Mum had offered to get her settled for me, so off I went and by time I'd driven the 10kms to the pool complex and got organised, I had an hour to do my thing!
The complex its part of a large public park, which also has a rugby club, athletics track, outdoor hockey stadium, skate park, netball courts, etc. And above the pool itself is a gym. After a few warm up laps of breaststroke and a bit of stretching I started my continuous lengths of freestyle in the "medium pace" lane. It was pretty busy and despite 7 lanes being open each lane had 3-4 swimmers most of the time, which is always a bit of a pain. I used to easily manage 50 lengths (1km) of this pool without stopping, but knew my swim fitness would be lacking. Instead I broke it down into 5 lots of 10 lengths with a 1-2 min breather in between each set. Just for fun I pushed the pace on the last length of each set! Then did some cool down lengths in the "walking lane" doing a bit of a walk/run/skip type style, depending on the depth!
It was bliss piling into the spa afterwards and I did plenty of leg stretches while I was in the nice warm water. I can already tell that my neck and shoulder muscles will be sore tomorrow - I guess thats typical of getting back into a different type of exercise.
So all in all a good day on the re-hab front. I also just heard from my sister that she completed the 10km Christmas run at Albert Park (Melb) this evening, in 58mins. Great going for someone who has only recently got back into running. And with all that smoke in the air too. Well done that girl!
Don't know why, but all day its felt like it should be Friday already! For about a week now I've been promising myself I'll get to bed before 11pm to get some extra sleep - so far I've failed every night! Felt tired when the alarm kicked in at 5.45am, but then remembered today was a jogging day and that propelled me out of bed and out the door! God I'm sad!
Rather humid out this morning with lots of low cloud about. Headed up and out of my sub-division and along the main road. Leg is now feeling completely normal when walking and striding it out feels good. After 10mins I went into a slow jog. I was amazed at how good the leg continued to feel! Picked it up a bit to my usual "easy pace" and continued on for 18mins which gave me approx 3kms. By the end of that I was feeling the leg a little more, but it was still really good compared to previously. Yippee! Another 12mins of walking saw me back home. I even worked up a sweat today for the first time in ages - but then like I said, it was rather humid.
Really happy with how it went today anyway.
This evening, despite not getting away from work till 5.30pm, I was determined to get to the pool! I think my swim cap and goggles had thought they were never going to see the light of day ever again! Got home, had dinner, did homework with Courtney and had her ready to jump into bed by the time I left the house at 7.45pm. Mum had offered to get her settled for me, so off I went and by time I'd driven the 10kms to the pool complex and got organised, I had an hour to do my thing!
The complex its part of a large public park, which also has a rugby club, athletics track, outdoor hockey stadium, skate park, netball courts, etc. And above the pool itself is a gym. After a few warm up laps of breaststroke and a bit of stretching I started my continuous lengths of freestyle in the "medium pace" lane. It was pretty busy and despite 7 lanes being open each lane had 3-4 swimmers most of the time, which is always a bit of a pain. I used to easily manage 50 lengths (1km) of this pool without stopping, but knew my swim fitness would be lacking. Instead I broke it down into 5 lots of 10 lengths with a 1-2 min breather in between each set. Just for fun I pushed the pace on the last length of each set! Then did some cool down lengths in the "walking lane" doing a bit of a walk/run/skip type style, depending on the depth!
It was bliss piling into the spa afterwards and I did plenty of leg stretches while I was in the nice warm water. I can already tell that my neck and shoulder muscles will be sore tomorrow - I guess thats typical of getting back into a different type of exercise.
So all in all a good day on the re-hab front. I also just heard from my sister that she completed the 10km Christmas run at Albert Park (Melb) this evening, in 58mins. Great going for someone who has only recently got back into running. And with all that smoke in the air too. Well done that girl!
posted by Vicky @ 12/13/2006 10:14:00 pm
2 Comments:
At Fri Dec 15, 10:28:00 am,
Ewen said…
That 3k easy run was promising. Good swim session too. Looks like the gradual comeback is working.
At Fri Dec 15, 12:19:00 pm,
Anonymous said…
Very pleased to see the 18mins went well.
10ks is a fair distance to the nearest pool. I'm only 2ks from a pool, but haven't managed the motivation to find the goggles & budgie smugglers & get there.
All the best.
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