Running With Jack

The Swim

Last night I stopped at the swimming pool on the way home from work. It was fairly busy, but I managed to get in a 1000 meters of laps before feeling crowded. I alternated breaststroke and freestyle every 100 meters, mostly so I didn’t drive everyone nuts as I seemed to have a hard time swimming straight when doing the freestyle. I still am a very weak swimmer. I probably could finish a sprint tri if I really wanted to, but I would prefer to wait until my swimming improves. The pool is closed for renovations for the next 3 weeks, so I have to find another place to swim next week.

The Diet

What diet? I’ve gained 3 lbs. since my tapering started. I would like to think it is just water, but it probably has more to do with the fresh pastries that I have been shamefully stuffing into my mouth almost every morning at work. I usually go through the pastry phase as the weather cools down and autumn set in. Unfortunately this cycle started early this year, at 6 a.m. this morning it was only 12C/54F and yesterday it only reached 16C/61F – this is August, right??

Anyway, I made sure to bring some fresh fruit with me to work this morning, I only have to stay away from the cafeteria until the danish are sold out :-)

The Taper

I feel pretty much recovered from my PR-breaking half-marathon on Sunday. I have a total of 42K/26M on the training schedule for this week. Compared to the 95K/60M weeks that I was putting in prior to tapering this seems like a warm-up. I woke up this morning feeling in dire need of a long run.