psych!!

Yesterday's swim totally SUCKED!  My neck muscle was feeling raw and sore before I went out... but I didn't feel it that much while swimming.  I don't think it was the wet suit.  I dunno.  I think it was all in my head.  The plan was to swim 750 - across Meech Lake at Blanchet Beach and back.  When we got there I watched the kids while C swam out and back.  When it was my turn, I was just not stoked at all.  I didn't feel tired or anything just sort of apathetic about the whole thing.  I squeezed into the wet suit and out I went.  I felt really buoyant and I barely needed to kick my legs.  So, in that way the swim was easier.  For some reason, though, while I was on my way out across the lake all I could think about was how inefficient my swimming is and how freaking long it was going to take to get this over with.  So I'm thinking the whole focus on my swim stroke was due to the fact that I didn't have to even think about my legs.  I tried to kick just a bit harder to leverage the fact that they weren't tired at all.  I could totally feel my arms slapping rather than cutting the water, and I could feel my stroke stopping short of the surface of the water rather than following through... and that's how the swim went the whole way.  I turned around about 50m early (maybe more I dunno) just to be done with it.  Not sure what lessons can be learned from it other than take a day or two off between swim workouts?


The beauty of triathlon training is that even though I had a crap swim workout yesterday, I'm still stoked about training on bike and running today.  Variety is the spice of life for us ADD folk :P