Tapering fun

[andygates]

Things this apex week's taught me so far: Sleep is sacred, at least 7h; I can't sustain two intense workouts a day, one needs to be footling; Hit the sack prepped for morning training before breakfast for keenest results; A week's plan laid out in one go is really easy to follow; If you miss a session, let it go, don't bollix up your schedule trying to cram it in.

Yesterday's swim was the third helping of cream on this week's cake (after a tough brick on Monday and a gorgeous ride of the Tivvy Triangle into work on Wednesday). Two sets of 250m - 10 lengths - nonstop using Hutch's breathing advice. Some warmup and footling too. Left me feeling like I could sustain that trundle for as long as I needed to, so my stroke is finally (after what, 6 months?) going aerobic. Happy happy joy joy! Celebrated by buying some fish fingers :)

PM run was a write-off though and today is listed as rest day. Argh, wanna go run... but no, rest is training too.

Memo to all training types: check which towel you pack to public changing areas. Scurrying across the mixed change area from the men's showers to your locker past the morning's clutch of littleolds clutching a face towel to your nuts is not ideal. They squawk like baseball turkeys.

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[thudthwacker.livejournal.com]

Sleep is sacred, at least 7h.

Oh, amen. I hope to be able to do that sometime soon. The wife has suffered from serial insomnia and the daughter has been somewhat ill for the past few days, so sleep has become scarce in general and oft-interrupted.

Scurrying across the mixed change area from the men's showers to your locker past the morning's clutch of littleolds clutching a face towel to your nuts is not ideal.

Which is a terribly funny picture, but hold a moment: there are men's showers, next to which is a room with men and women, and then, what? A separate room with lockers? Or do you just take a chance on flashing a little blue-haired lady every time you get changed, and it's just harder to avoid when wearing nothing but a washcloth?

[andygates.livejournal.com]

It's a large mixed changing area with cubicles and lockers. And off to one side (wetside, though that sounds like some deep-sea sci-fi that only made it to VHS) are male and female showers and the pool. One would normally pass the blue rinsey girls whilst wearing a much more appropriate towel ...