I apologize for not participating much in this thread. October has literally been the culmination of perhaps the most miserable year of my life. This month I closed down our office and gave everyone their termination letters and then gave myself my own and before and after that I have been going nuts investor/venture capitalist meetings to try to get a new startup off the ground. I keep telling myself that everything has to come down before new opportunities can be born, so I am trying to keep a glass half full perspective on life, and the pool has been my saviour. I have used this time to both connect with my thoughts and stresses and also disconnect.
But early in October, I did some math and it occurred to me that if I just kept going to the pool and not let everything falling down around me get in the way and use the pool as a source of meditation and stress minimization, I could have the "dual objective" of actually getting to 1000 km for the year on Ironman Hawaii weekend. For 33 years since I did my first tri, this weekend has been the biggest athletic weekend for me....most times as a fan, 3 times as an athlete.....so I thought that if I just swam every day 60-90 minutes and only had a few days off, then I could hit the magic 1000 km
Friday came around and I was at 993 km and I had a college reunion on the weekend too, so I had to squeeze in an early Sat AM 3K swim leaving 4 km for Sunday evening when I got home. After a night of partying and not much sleep with old friends and a long drive home, normal humans would not do exercise, but I can't change my DNA of being objective driven and hauled myself to the pool and got a touch over 4000m done.
But keeping with my focus for the year, none of my swimming this year as been mindless meters. Almost every workout I am going hard at some point in all strokes and ended Sunday with 400m Fly-Free as 25m fly sprint-25m fly recovery-25mfree sprint-25m free recovery and repeated that continuously for 400m to get over the 1000 km. Mainly I have gotten to the point that I can actually kind of recover from a fly sprint by just winding it down and taking the ooomph off the pace a touch. I told myself that once I get over 1000 km for the year, I would give the 1000m fly-free TT (as {50/50} x 10) another go (I did it in the spring). Also want to give the 200 fly a go.
Dev
But early in October, I did some math and it occurred to me that if I just kept going to the pool and not let everything falling down around me get in the way and use the pool as a source of meditation and stress minimization, I could have the "dual objective" of actually getting to 1000 km for the year on Ironman Hawaii weekend. For 33 years since I did my first tri, this weekend has been the biggest athletic weekend for me....most times as a fan, 3 times as an athlete.....so I thought that if I just swam every day 60-90 minutes and only had a few days off, then I could hit the magic 1000 km
Friday came around and I was at 993 km and I had a college reunion on the weekend too, so I had to squeeze in an early Sat AM 3K swim leaving 4 km for Sunday evening when I got home. After a night of partying and not much sleep with old friends and a long drive home, normal humans would not do exercise, but I can't change my DNA of being objective driven and hauled myself to the pool and got a touch over 4000m done.
But keeping with my focus for the year, none of my swimming this year as been mindless meters. Almost every workout I am going hard at some point in all strokes and ended Sunday with 400m Fly-Free as 25m fly sprint-25m fly recovery-25mfree sprint-25m free recovery and repeated that continuously for 400m to get over the 1000 km. Mainly I have gotten to the point that I can actually kind of recover from a fly sprint by just winding it down and taking the ooomph off the pace a touch. I told myself that once I get over 1000 km for the year, I would give the 1000m fly-free TT (as {50/50} x 10) another go (I did it in the spring). Also want to give the 200 fly a go.
Dev