Maybe stress can be a good thing.

-
I am totally stressing. Generally when I stress I eat. But when the stress gets really bad, like now, I can't eat and my stomach feels like crap. I'm eating Tums like candy and all the food I eat just seems to sit in my stomach and not digest. It's horrible. It's all the stuff that's going on right now. I'm hemorrhaging money - in the next 4-6 weeks I'll have to pay out over $7,000 which I don't really have and I don't know what's going to happen. That's the worst part the not knowing. If I had to pay out the money but at least knew where it all was going to end I'd be okay. But right now it seems like I don't have control of my own life and I can't take it. Do you think I might be a bit of a control freak???? Nah!!!!

Anyway, faced with the choice this morning of laying around and crying "Oh, woe is me" or getting out and working my butt off to try and relieve the stress, I chose the workout. So I went swimming, and it was amazing. I pushed myself -hard- because I wanted to burn off some of this stress. It didn't really help but I got a helluva workout.

200m warm-up: 5:39 (really cruising working on form)
4 x 50m: 1:09, 1:07, 1:08, 1:11 (look at those numbers - woo hoo!!!!)
200m pull: 5:53
4 x 50m: 1:15, 1:21, 1:28, 1:16 (not as good as the first round, but definitely acceptable)
200m kick: 11:03 (some commotion in the pool, I had to stop a couple of times)
4 x 50m: 1:10, 1:09, 1:24, 1:07 (again, woo hooo!!!!)
4 x 25m: :47,

Well, it seems that's all I got. My watch has a 30 lap limit and I reached my limit. Bummer. Anyway the total time was 56 minutes and I did a total of 1600m. I am very pleased with those numbers. I can't believe how on Feb 13th my fastest 50m was 1:17 and today it was 1:07. That's 10 seconds faster!! That's a lot. Now I need to work on consistency so all my laps are close in time.

So there's 3 1/2 weeks till my tri. If I work hard the next few weeks maybe I could do the 500m swim in 12 minutes. Wouldn't that be awesome.

Okay, I'm off to tour a shrimp farm- don't ask!!!

Comments

:) said…
Nice swim!!!! Hope the stress lets up soon...
12:23 PM
Nancy Toby said…
That's some speedy swimming! Funny how practicing helps, eh?

Hope your situation resolves soon. The money part must be worrisome. Take care of yourself.
1:26 PM
Backofpack said…
Hope the stress lets up soon. Working out has to be way better than sitting home! (If I knew anything about swimming, I'd comment on it, but truth is, I know nothing...but it sounds like you did great!)
2:40 PM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

There are many ways to measure success,

-
and today I found yet another one. The Great Aloha Run this morning was just awesome. I didn't break any records, it was not my best time by far, but I think this was one of my best races ever. After getting up at 4 a.m., driving to the finish line, catching a bus to the start, standing in line for the port-a-potties(more on this later), I still found myself with over 45 mins before the race started. So I found a place to sit and people watched for 1/2 an hour - that is always fun. Finally, at 6:45 we headed out to the start. One of the things the Great Aloha Run does is they have the Sounds of Freedom. These are military units from all over the island that run in formation singing cadence the whole way. They line up on the side of the road and they have a silent start 8 minutes before the race starts. It's always a special sight to see them go. I'm a flag waving fool and when I see our military I just get all gushy. I feel so proud to live in a country where young...
Read more

Colloidal Silver

-
colloidal silver is very fine particles that are suspended in liquid, usually water. This apparently has antimicrobial properties and has been used externally to treat wounds and burns to prevent infection. Working in the lab we get lots of nasty, nasty burns. You ain't been burned till you've been burned with hot sodium hydroxide - yow momma!!!! Anyway, we always kept a jar of colloidal silver around and used it on burns. It not only helped it heal it seemed to reduce the pain. I don't know how it just did. Now, some folks think you should drink this. They say it has antibiotic properties and is fairly harmless to drink. I don't know if that's true but it sure would be nice if it was. I hate taking antibiotics for a number of reasons. It would be nice to be able to drink something and have the same thing happen. colloidal silver has also been used to keep potable water drinkable for long periods. This sounds like some pretty amazing stuff. Being the scien...
Read more

My blog is great!!!

-
Look to the left there. My blog has been rated by blogged.com as Great!!! I scored 8.5 out of 10. Woo Hoo!!! I don't normally get excited over things like this, but I'm on a mission to create great blogs and this is just a little validation. So for some reason I was incredibly busy last night and stayed up way past my bedtime. As a result I didn't get up this morning. Well, that and the fact that is was freaking cold. We are in this spring weather cycle where it is warm and beautiful during the day, and cold, cold, cold at night. Makes for good sleeping but hard getting out of bed. Fe-Lady is raising funds for a really, really good cause. Go here and help her out why don'tcha. In my humble opinion there is not enough we can do to help out our American Heroes. So go, give, it'll feel good...... That's it for now. I need to get some work done.
Read more