Exasize!
Yay, I'm at the rec. An hour and a half of swimming, boy do I feel like a *pro*.
Now I'm off to Highland to get some study in. Today I lucked out in taking my *make-up* midterm for my Poli class. Prof won't be in this afternoon, so I'm taking it tomorrow. Tomorrow, yes indeed, I'm going to ace it!
I feel pretty calm lately. Which doesn't happen so often! It's a strange thing to be feeling like a maniac with hormones running through your skin...and then feel like nothing in the world could ever bother me.. ack! the troubles of a girl..
An interesting thing occured to me while I was swimming. I usually associate swimming with meditation; you control your breathing, the movements/rotation(s) of your body, and the longer you continue doing repeated patterns, it gets easier. I watched this guy work on 100's (that is, 4 laps) at a minute, fifteen (1:15) with 15 seconds rest. If I counted right, he did repeated increments of 3, then a 50 cool down with about 30 seconds rest until the next set of 100's. And I imagine he's probably far from sprinting:which means he's probably one hell of a lot faster than 1:15 for a hundred!
Alright, I know this doesn't sound so exciting--but it helped me to figure out what I was doing wrong with my stroke, my technique. I'm not worried about going fast. I'm not looking to 'beat' anybody. But I'd like to measure my time again with what I did in highschool--which then, brought me to about 1:06 on my hundred free, 1:11 on my 100 breast. Sometimes I wish I would have stuck with swimming rather than swim recreationally!
I feel this huge urge too to teach swimming. I wanted to assistant coach at some highschool this fall--but lack of planning has already brought me half-way through the highschool swimming season without doing that. There's always club..
Alright, have to get my butt in gear.. I don't want to be up ALL freaking night studying!
;) I also have to find some time to chat with my roomie...
~ Cp
Now I'm off to Highland to get some study in. Today I lucked out in taking my *make-up* midterm for my Poli class. Prof won't be in this afternoon, so I'm taking it tomorrow. Tomorrow, yes indeed, I'm going to ace it!
I feel pretty calm lately. Which doesn't happen so often! It's a strange thing to be feeling like a maniac with hormones running through your skin...and then feel like nothing in the world could ever bother me.. ack! the troubles of a girl..
An interesting thing occured to me while I was swimming. I usually associate swimming with meditation; you control your breathing, the movements/rotation(s) of your body, and the longer you continue doing repeated patterns, it gets easier. I watched this guy work on 100's (that is, 4 laps) at a minute, fifteen (1:15) with 15 seconds rest. If I counted right, he did repeated increments of 3, then a 50 cool down with about 30 seconds rest until the next set of 100's. And I imagine he's probably far from sprinting:which means he's probably one hell of a lot faster than 1:15 for a hundred!
Alright, I know this doesn't sound so exciting--but it helped me to figure out what I was doing wrong with my stroke, my technique. I'm not worried about going fast. I'm not looking to 'beat' anybody. But I'd like to measure my time again with what I did in highschool--which then, brought me to about 1:06 on my hundred free, 1:11 on my 100 breast. Sometimes I wish I would have stuck with swimming rather than swim recreationally!
I feel this huge urge too to teach swimming. I wanted to assistant coach at some highschool this fall--but lack of planning has already brought me half-way through the highschool swimming season without doing that. There's always club..
Alright, have to get my butt in gear.. I don't want to be up ALL freaking night studying!
;) I also have to find some time to chat with my roomie...
~ Cp