Take from the run, give to the swim, everyone wins

RUN 9 miles in 1:17, 8:33m/m ave
SWIM 2800y in 1:10, 10x125 as 50S-25D-50S

A few things this morning that seem to be working for me. I ate more between the run and swim -- using my new baby rice cereal with a banana and almond butter -- to boost the blood sugar so I didn't fade in the swim. I finished 2.5hrs ago and I'm still feeling good. So maybe that extra boost is something I need to keep doing? Usually I'm dragging after 2.5hrs in the morning.

I needed more positive head talk today in the run, I kept defaulting to the "so tired", "I think I'm depressed", etc mental chatter. I wasn't chatty even outwardly, I was getting wrapped up in my mental miseries. But I kept reminding myself that the 'old me' is eclipsed, gone, done, I need to move on and quit dwelling. So instead I told myself that "I could do this all day", "I'm doing great, so many changes ahead", and "gosh this feels so easy!" and it helped. Negative mental energy is not helpful at all.

Then instead of running 10 miles I took those extra minutes to the swim and continued with my goal of an extra 15 mins of swimming and doing more drills-focused work. I took the 25-choice out and did 25-drills instead. It sucks to be slower than I used to be, as pool-DH said this morning "sometimes it's a few steps back". The wide-front swimming seems to be slowing me quite a bit, I think my hips and legs drag lower when I do it?

Pool-DH commented today on how good I looked -- like I was strength training more. I'm still uncomfortable with that. Get eclipsed, girl!

One of the senior exercise group had some strong perfume or lotion on, UGH, right at the black line in the pool it freaking REEKED. But I sucked it up (figuratively) and kept going. And the benefit was that I got to chat with my lane mate who was doing his first 20 laps after shoulder surgery 4 months ago. Takes a lot of patience to recover like that, could I do it? Hope I don't need to find out.

I need to quit procrastinating on many many things, they are weighing over my head and bringing me down. It's just a few emails, errands, and to-do around the house. Nothing hard. Just gotta do it.