swim focus - week tres

also known as week fighting the sickness. also ALSO known as the week three update that i put up AFTER the week four preview. i am a genius sometimes. 

we've been achoo-ing for over a week in our house. a bunch of kids at playgroup had the sniffles, there's a 'work bug' (no code pun intended) going around the CTO's office, AND the CTO came back from SFO with something. methinks we've just been trading viral strains back and forth.

so, this week we're all snotty, scratchy-throated, and coughy. i don't feel too TOO bad, thankfully. nothing a little tea, extra vitamin C and rest won't cure.

though i had a good interval workout planned, i ended up taking Wed off. the CTO looked at me like i was crazy when i started to pack my things for the gym. (i may have sneezed 3 times in a row, coughed, and had tissue stuffed in my nostrils) then he says,

"you realize you don't have to swim tonight, right? you are in the off-season. it's okay to take a day off during the off-season. save this power-through-it, i'm-so-tough attitude for when training actually starts, so you have something left."

my first instinct was to argue (my parents are lawyers, after all) but in the end, he was so very right. i ended up sleeping like a husband Wed night.

from someecards 

and, the whole time in the back of my head, i'm thinking: best case scenario, if i feet better by Thurs i could still get my 5 days in! (here's a hint. this is not a best-case-scenario type of week.) Thurs ended up being a complete fucking mess wash bc the dudebaby had a meltdown at the gym playroom (they had to come get me out of the pool to calm him down. we left early bc he was such a fusspants, poor kiddo.) as for the rest of the week, i could tell i still wasn't feeling 100%. but kiddo made it through Fri's workout without a meltdown. and it felt GOOD to be in the water. (holy crap i can't believe it...am i actually starting to enjoy swimming??) the CTO had a hackathon all day Saturday, and i forgot to make playroom reservations, so there was no swimming. instead, bebe and i ran. hopefully the hackathon will end early enough today for me to get to the pool before any gnarly weather hits.

back to swimming. this week in workouts:

Mon: OFF
Tues: horrid 1 mi drills. took me foreverandever to get through (still in denial about having the ICK)
Wed: OFF
Thurs: 250wu, 6x25 drills, 8x100 @ mod :15 rest, 200 kick, 200 pull   get out and rescue bebe
Fri: 1 mi continuous TT, 200 kick, 200 cd
Sat: OFF-swim, 3mi run in AM
Today: 200wu, 200 drills, 8x50 @ max :30-45 rest, 2x100 kick, 200 cd

4 out of 5 ain't bad. i'm going to need some good juju to get me to the pool today...send it my way if you can spare!