The last couple of days of been alright.
Yesterday when I got up my ankle protested in a new place. I walked around the house a little bit and it seemed pretty good so I went down to the beach. I took it easy, but it didn't feel quite right so I took the exit at 2 miles. Still a nice walk.
In the afternoon I went to the pool to practice by myself. I brought my new goggles to try out. I'm up to doing kind of an assisted dog paddle type thing with the barbell looking device as quasi water-wings.
Goggles are great! Especially after you get around to figuring out that you can actually open your eyes when you're wearing them. So I did my paddling around with my face in the water, and after a while, with my eyes open. I did really well with the breathing and humming, even turning my head to the side instead of straight up to breath in.
At about the 90 minute mark I was good and tuckered, and decided it was time to get out. On that last little stretch, I guess I was tired, I did the breathing backwards. * choke sputter cough sputter cough*
On that note, I decided it was time to get out. Then I changed my mind. Something in the back of my head told me that if I quit right then I might not go back. I decided to play psychologist with myself, and not leave on a bad note. So I jumped back in for two more paddle-laps and then left under my own control. I'm glad I did, the books tell me that a key to learning to swim and not be afraid is to learn how to feel like I am in control. Sounds good to me.
Today was less ambitious.
I got up to a very twitchy ankle but still wanted to get outside. I taped everything up and went down to the beach just for a little bit. I didn't go far, maybe a mile. But I did run in to a couple of the regulars, made plans for lunch with one for later in the week, and just enjoyed the fresh air.
Intentional day off from swimming today, planning on going for another practice day on my own tomorrow.
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The Group Power workout looks really hard! I am impressed.
I also loves me some good shoe deals too
