9/21/09

Yesterday -

I walked the Susan G. Komen for the Cure race, a 5k. It took about an hour and twenty minutes, which is slow, but considering how many people walked, not bad.
By the end, I was very sore and tired overall. I didn't sleep a lot Saturday night, and between that, running (on Saturday night), and walking Sunday morning, I was beat. I came home, rested for the rest of the day, and felt a lot better.

Today -

I wanted to keep it low impact, since I was so tired and sore yesterday. I decided to swim. I swam 24 lengths, 12 laps. I *think* the pool is 25 meters, which makes for a total of 600 meters. I felt like that was a pretty good start, and I felt pretty good during it. If I was timing correctly, I swam for approximately 25 minutes.

Swimming workouts are going to be interesting. The hard part is going to be swimming in a small space for long periods of time - I wonder if the lack of change in scenery is going to make swimming boring. Especially towards the end, I also felt like I was in an odd space mentally, just because of how weird it is to be underwater for long periods of time - it's a different world. :) I'll have to play with ways to keep engaged during swim workouts. I don't want to get bored since exercise - wise, swimming feels awesome, and is the best kind of workout for my upper body. It's too bad things that play music are not conducive to getting really wet. :D I also shall be doing research as to proper swim form, since that will keep me healthier and faster.

It's been awhile since I've biked, so that's the plan for tomorrow.