The other night I came across a great web site with tons of interesting articles about triathlons. One in particular about swimming by Ian Murray
It caught my attention right away because of the opening statement
"I didn't learn how to swim until 1997. I was 29 years old."
The piece continues on and talks about defining moments in Ian's swimming journey.
"In every good athlete's past are certain names, specific times or big milestones that mark development."
Some of these "milestones" made so much sense I have adopted them. Like making your body as long as possible in the water, lengthening your stroke as much as possible and using your hips to help corkscrew your kicking motion for extra power. Even though today was the first attempt at applying these new lessons I feel that they will be with me for all my future swims.
"Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight" ~Ian Murray~
Exercise
2000 meter swim
(4 sets of as fast as I could go 500 meters, with 60 seconds of rest in between sets)
Swimming is great for stretching out the leg muscles after the run.
Diet
Breakfast
Toast with homemade Jam, coffee
Snack
None
Lunch
Leftover Thai from last night
Snack
V8
Dinner
Pizza and the rest of the Thai.
Snack
Nacho chips with salsa.
(it sure is hard to reduce food intake with all this exercise, I'm always sooo hungry!)
No weight loss since the 5 pound drop to 210 :(
