My Gung-ho start to Pigman Training

SWIM: 1hr 2200 yards. MMM. 5x250 main set.
STRENGTH: 15 min Tabatas: 8x20s (10s) of plank, pushup, crunch, squat. Total of 32 20 second intervals.

Actually managed to get to swim almost on time today, I walked in at 5:30 instead of after 5:30. Class starts at 5:30!! So get there EARLIER!

I was all gung-ho this morning. It is the 1st day of Pigman training and after a week of rest and recovery I’m jazzed about training. The next 8 weeks will be a steep climb to get to what I consider to be a solid base of training, since I’ve been running so much my swim and bike are behind. But I can deal with that.

So I marched onto the pool deck and instead of picking the slowest lane, I asked CHG “which lane?” and hopped right into the crowded 2nd lane. I haven’t swum since the Weds before the race, so I was a bit rusty. Gung-ho’edly-rusty at that. I was on the attack. I’d listened to the Savage CD Vol 1 on the drive to the pool and had Just Go stuck in my head. I was full-on, head first, charging back and forth across the pool.

Of course it didn’t last long. Soon enough we had fins on and my right ankle was unhappy with it. But I kept going, hoping my ankle would pop back into place on its own soon. Then the intervals: 3x600 broken up into 6x300. I re-dialed that to as many 250’s I could get done, knowing that my lane mates would lap me in the 300’s. I had trouble swimming straight; I kept hitting the lane lines with my right arm and hand. As part of my gung-ho’edness, I stayed after class to talk to CHG about it. I’m crossing my left hand over my head—put that on the list for Wednesday’s swim.

Then a crossfit session, using my new xfit app to generate a workout. The plank was supposed to be pull-ups, so I sub’d that out for planks. This was harder that it sounds to do; I imagine that tomorrow I’ll be feeling the pain! Yea! This is part of the Savage training: build lean strength for the WHill. Cuz I’m gonna gung-ho’edly attack that too come September.