This week was a week of experimentation. Shelly and I are trying to figure out how to work the Longhorn training plan into our week. Our two experiments this week were swimming in the morning at the Medical Center gym, and adding weights to our schedule.
Swimming in the morning was great...in that we were able to get to the gym at 5:30 a.m. and get a lane each to swim in. We did find out that shaded goggles don't work so well in the dark (duh) and that crickets love to hang out in the pool in the early morning (gross). We only swam 500 meters because that's what the first week of the plan calls for. After that, both of us agree that we'll bump the swimming up to at least 1000 meters each time, which is still cutting our swim time in half from what we've been doing. We'll follow the program...to an extent! But we can't be swimming only 500 meters at a time. After we swam, we ran around the loop at the Med Center for 2.5 miles and then drove to work with enough time to spare to get tacos at the cafe on the way to our desks!
Adding weights to our schedule was easy. Walking around after doing them wasn't so easy. We did squats, walking lunges, step-ups, crunches, pushups, and plank on Tuesday morning, and we both felt it on Wednesday and Thursday! I have never had such a sore behind. And we only did one set of each! Today's weights were more for the upper body - I guess I'll find out tomorrow if they made me sore. A sore upper body will make for a weird swim tomorrow at the lake.
So I think we've figured out the schedule, for the most part. We've even worked in a rest day on Mondays (which means doubling up a swim and a run somewhere else during the week). Now we just have to wait until July 5 to actually start training.
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