Sunday, January 8, 2012

I Got a Cold in My Nose

Date: Sunday, January 8, 2012
Time: 11:15 a.m.
Location: Tucson, AZ
Short Course Yards
169 days to Olympic Trials

400 free swim

300 IM
25 scull/25 drill/25 swim

200 kick
100 breast/100 free

100 breast drill

400 free swim with snorkel

300 IM
25 scull/25 drill/25 swim

200 kick
100 breast/100 free

100 breast
25 underwater breast pull/25 breast pull head out of water/25 breast swim head out of water/25 breast swim underwater

400 free swim

300 IM
25 scull/25 drill/25 swim

200 kick
100 breast/100 free

100 breast swim with double pullouts

200 easy
25 scull/25 kick

4x15 breast breakouts on :45

100 easy

Total: 3,400 yards (70 minutes)

Friday after workout I felt horrible. As I wrote on that day, I wanted to sleep for hours, but day wore on, I started to feel congested in my head and sneezing uncontrollably. By Friday evening, I was so stuffed up that the only way I was going to sleep was to take some cold medicine. It did the trick.

It's a good thing Saturday was my day off. I slept a lot that day, going out briefly to teach swimming lessons. By Sunday morning my stuffy nose was pretty much gone, but I still felt icky. Today's workout was supposed to keep my heart rate down and keep me in shape for the meet next weekend. The last 400 free was a little too hard. I went a 4:43, and my heart rate was about 170, a little too high for that speed.

Having a cold is a minor inconvenience this weekend. I could feel much sicker, and I'm glad that this cold is likely to go away by the time I get on the plane to Austin. Tomorrow is my usual day off, and I'll use it to continue to get better. More cold medicine tonight!

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