Hump-D-Dump Day. Stress on the DUMP.

SWIM: 35 mins and 11oom
RUN: 40 mins and 4 miles

So after feeling relatively good last night, Weds was a reversal of good feeling. I actually managed to get up on time for the swim after only 5 or so hours of sleep. I almost didn't swim, when it came time to leave for the pool I drug my feet. I wanted to go, but didn't want to swim.

What was I thinking? Go for the social aspect and hang out on the deck?

So I went. Got there late. And told myself That Was OK because I only wanted to swim 40 mins anyway. Just another justification. I started after everyone else had warmed up, not that it mattered really since I didn't really do any of their sets anyway. Well I did one--the 4x200m but all I finished was a 3x200. I was doing 100m in 2:20-2:30. It was frustrating! I even tried paddles for one 100, it was tiring but I don't think I'm using them right. I'll have to go back to that post earlier this spring and see what CHG said about the paddles.

And after practice I talked to CHG about a 1-on-1. I'm missing something. I just don't know what.

Then a long day at work, with not much to do. Days like this destroy my motivation. I hate sitting like that. And I didn't bring enough to keep my tummy full for the day. So when it came time to go home and run, my motivation and hunger were ruining my mood. And once again, I wanted to run but didn't want to go. I had just enough time. GO!

Early in the run I wondered if I wanted to run only because I'd feel guilty if I didn't. And who was I going to let down if I didn't run? I don't know.

Not much later than that in the run, I realized this was not going my way. I wanted to walk, stop, sleep, crawl--anything but run. I felt miserable. And my HR was screaming high [more on this later]. The HRM kept reporting 175+ numbers and I was barely moving. I was pausing to walk, catch my breath, and manually check the HR. No way was it 190+ like the Garmin said. No freakin' way. WTH?

But I made it to my 2 mile turnaround, by this time giving up on drills and just working to finish. The drills just drove up my HR and my fatigue, ironically they are efficiency drills. I was happy to reach the turn around, even though I didn't really want to be there. What a conflict. A stupid conflict.

Then my left foot started to hurt (in the Kinvaras). Then I was sweating buckets. Then I was thirsty. Oh geez did I have a long line of waaaahhhhhhhhhhh for this run.

Regarding the HRM-I don't think it's working. So no HR data here.