Slacking on Postings

So I missed postings for the Thursday and Friday. Seems we've hardly been home!

Thursday - did my leg workout at the gym and swam another 1/2 mile. I'm really, really enjoying the swimming and the kids are getting into it too. I always enjoy things we can do as a family.

Friday - Tennis lesson AM, swam 1/2 mile (all freestyle this time), and very fun couples tennis in the evening.

Had a bad night (stomach-wise) and will see what the day brings. I left my racket at the courts last night hoping I'd get up and run there this morning, but there's no way. I'll see if I can even play. I am determined to get some kind of run in today as I've been looking forward to it!

I want to get a second suit for lap swimming as mine is many years old and not in great shape. Went to Dick's and couldn't seem to get the sizing right, but I was there when I only had a few minutes. Funny how I'm not all that huge but I'm toward the top of the swimsuit sizes. On the other hand, Spencer (who is 8) wears a suit that falls under the "mens" category. I challenge any grown man to fit in his suit. My friend Meredith who is tiny was lamenting the fact that she had to get a size large suit bottom at Target and she said how wrong that is - what kind of message is it sending? Sheesh.

Better get dressed for tennis! More later.

Late addition: ran the 3-ish mile loop around the club and where usually I have to walk up three hills, today I only walked up one, so there's definite improvement where running is concerned. Now, for tennis, I think the only thing that might help me there is a sports psychologist!!!

Jogging with the Doggy

Did my 60 min walk/jog with THIS as my companion. As good as she is, it still upped the mental workload in a significant way. Trixie is such a love and works so hard to please!

Swam 16 laps (800 m)...half a mile! It's starting to feel better and I am enjoying it. Grant moved up to Spencer's swim team practice group so we can all swim at the same time.

Tennis...I was just so-so. Fortunately, my ankle/foot is feeling better and I can move again. I think the swimming and stretching is helping. Yeah!

Great day on food...no overeating of any sort nor any junk. Of course, I'm not in bed yet.

Rain, rain go away

Tennis was canceled, bummer. I watched some of the French Open and was READY!!

Got in the gym workout @ 7 am for shoulders, back and arms and although I feel great, my chest is actually sore to the touch from Sunday! My abs are feeling it too.

Took the steps to the 6th floor of McBryde Hall and felt the burn by the top.

Swam laps to the best of my ability, and actually felt the burn in my legs there too. And the burn in the lungs. Funny how much I enjoy the ability to breathe, at will, at any time or place. This one breath every three arm strokes is just a bit limiting!

It's amazing how hard freestyle is for me right now. I hope I'll look back on this and marvel at how far I've come. Right now I can do ONE lap (50 m?) of freestyle and have to take a short break to catch my breath. I can do breast stroke till the cows come home, but freestyle is another story. I'm guessing I did 10 laps of that and a bunch more of breast stroke. I'm enjoying it!

I met another woman, Becky, at the pool who is kind of doing what I'm doing for the same reasons. She's doing some running and swimming, plus classes at the same gym. We talked about swimming and maybe running some together. And she's in the same boat juggling kids too. Neat! She actually did a triathlon last summer. I don't really want to go that route and throw biking in too. I can't let tennis or strength training go and I can't possibly add in anything else (or the expenses that inevitably go along with it).

Bottom line: I'm enjoying all this exercise and am feeling so much better about myself. Finally, rather than just thinking about doing it, I'm actually doing it.

Go, girls!

Not done for the day

So I see from my schedule I still have abs to do. Ugh.

I'm good on cardio - 30 minute trail run through grass concluding with wet shorts, shoes, and three ticks on my wet legs. Today I got some tips on my freestyle stroke and swam for probably 30 minutes...off and on with breaks. Now I can start tracking that. Then I had tennis. I wasn't too great there either, but it was fun and it sounds like our dream for a ball machine will come to be!

Good on food today until just now and I ate two snack-sized candy bars that I bought for my students. I had a bunch left over, but those were my two and no more are needed!

My butt is dragging, but I'll go do the ab thing!

Swimming

OK, so it won't upload in a readable fashion, but I wanted to see what all my activities look like put together. It's kind of scary when I look at it this way, but taken day by day it's doable. Today was the first day that I added in swimming thanks to a suggestion by Jake. I don't know how much I did but I was in the water about 45 minutes. Clearly the suits I have for lounging around the pool don't work for actual swimming. I have one suit for that purpose and will need to keep it along. There's nothing like that all-over body tiredness from swimming. Mostly I did breast stroke, side stroke, and kicked with a kickboard. I've never been one for freestyle much, but probably should incorporate it for the all-over workout it gives you.

So, I feel like my plate is full and there's nothing more to add at this point. We'll see how it goes!