Today I updated my USMS Master's Swimming online fitness log for my progress on the Nike Go the Distance challenge. I set my goal for this year to swim 150 miles in 2012!
Today I made it past the 50 mile mark which means I am on track to make it to my goal this year. Yeah!!! Today's Sunday Funday swim was a full group with all of Team Tininenko in attendance (Brent, Lauren, and Alexa) as well as myself and Carie. Carie's friend Hannah also came but did her own workout.
For the workout: we started with a 1000yd warmup ladder. The ladder breaks down as 400yd swim, 300yd drills (75 per stroke), 200yd kick, 100yd IM or pull. My friend Kyla and her son Karsten showed up during the drills portion of the warmup. She normally swims with us for Sunday Funday but she was on baby duty today. I had her watch some of my kick because lately when I've been doing breast stroke kick drills I feel off kilter. It's as if one foot comes up higher than the other. She thought it looked like my hips weren't even which makes sense. I've been feeling like my hips were a mess lately while I run too. I'm probably overdue for a visit to the chiropractor.
Next up was our main workout set. The workout Carie had picked for today called for 6-8 x 200 with the odds IM and the evens all free descending pace. They selected a 4:00min interval which would give them plenty of time to recover for the descending pace challenge. I decided to go with a shorter distance of 150 on a 3:00 min interval and increase the number of reps. I managed to get in just shy of 11 reps while the others did the 200's. For the first 8, I did a 25yd stretch of backstroke in the middle on the odds and 25yds of breaststroke on the evens. For reps 9 & 10, I did pull and then for the 11th and final I only got in 100yd of straight free.
We did an easy cooldown and then hit the hot tub. The hot tub was super crowded tonight with some other people plus our group of 6. We might have exceeded the occupancy limit but the lifeguard didn't say anything to us.
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Monday, October 31, 2011
Holiday Season Challenges
If you are like me, every year you go into the holiday season planning to get a jump start on new year's resolutions and not gain weight. Two of our fellow bloggers are here to help!
Amanda over at Run To The Finish is hosting the Holiday Bootie Buster Challenge. I participated in this last year and had a great time. Amanda has established point values for different types of activity and eating habits. You track your points for the duration of the challenge and have the chance to win random prizes. There are also opportunities to get bonus points by doing fun things. New to the challenge this year is to select your activity level as either a Builder, Doer, or Advanced. I was amazed last year to see how many points some people earned so I'm excited to have the levels this year since someone training at a much higher level is going to earn way more points than someone training to maintain fitness. The HBBC runs November 19 - January 6 and you still have plenty of time to sign up.
Mary at Fit this, girl! just announced her own challenge today. Her challenge is called the Reverse Resolution Challenge. Mary is a fun blogger to follow and I'm excited to try out her challenge this year. For this one, Mary asks you to commit to two resolutions (or goals) and then select three measurable actions to accomplish during the challenge. The challenge will run November 1 - January 1 and each week Mary will send out two emails to the participants with helpful tips and ideas for improving fitness. You commit to report in via email to Mary each week on how you are doing against your goals and action items.
I think these two challenges will work well together and hopefully provide me with that extra bit of motivation for the next two months. My goals are to rediscover my fitness and build my long run back up to a 10 mile distance by January. My second goal is to try to lose 10 lbs by January. I have definitely let my fitness slip in the last month since completing my half ironman and losing a few extra pounds would be awesome!
If you want to join either challenge, visit the links above. Both are offering some great prizes and even better the motivation and inspiration to tackle those January resolutions a little early!
Amanda over at Run To The Finish is hosting the Holiday Bootie Buster Challenge. I participated in this last year and had a great time. Amanda has established point values for different types of activity and eating habits. You track your points for the duration of the challenge and have the chance to win random prizes. There are also opportunities to get bonus points by doing fun things. New to the challenge this year is to select your activity level as either a Builder, Doer, or Advanced. I was amazed last year to see how many points some people earned so I'm excited to have the levels this year since someone training at a much higher level is going to earn way more points than someone training to maintain fitness. The HBBC runs November 19 - January 6 and you still have plenty of time to sign up.
Mary at Fit this, girl! just announced her own challenge today. Her challenge is called the Reverse Resolution Challenge. Mary is a fun blogger to follow and I'm excited to try out her challenge this year. For this one, Mary asks you to commit to two resolutions (or goals) and then select three measurable actions to accomplish during the challenge. The challenge will run November 1 - January 1 and each week Mary will send out two emails to the participants with helpful tips and ideas for improving fitness. You commit to report in via email to Mary each week on how you are doing against your goals and action items.
I think these two challenges will work well together and hopefully provide me with that extra bit of motivation for the next two months. My goals are to rediscover my fitness and build my long run back up to a 10 mile distance by January. My second goal is to try to lose 10 lbs by January. I have definitely let my fitness slip in the last month since completing my half ironman and losing a few extra pounds would be awesome!
If you want to join either challenge, visit the links above. Both are offering some great prizes and even better the motivation and inspiration to tackle those January resolutions a little early!
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