Hump Day Surprises

Two shocking things:

#1. I am posting twice in one day.

Try and guess #2:

If the wet, crazy hair and circles on my forehead aren’t a giveaway, maybe this will be:

Obviously, #2 is that I am from Belarus! hahaha. Just kidding, gotta love cheapo swim caps from the Knabes bin.  Holla if you know what Knabes is .

#2 really is that I went for a swim today!

My pull buoy helped me sweat pink.  YES, you do sweat while swimming!!

Though I only swam 4000 yards, the workout was the first one I’d done in QUITE some time.  I used this workout as a base and sort of modified it!

• 1 x 800 warm up (300 swim, 200 kick, 200 pull, 100 swim)
• 4 x 150 — 50 kick, 50 swim, 50 drill  2:15
• 3 x :  (3 x 100 IM, 1 x 100 kick)  (IM on 1:45, kick on 2:15)
• 16 x 50 alternating 2 pull, 2 kick (pull on 1:00, kick on 1:15)
• 12 x 25: 1 hard/ez, 1 ez/hard, 1 ez, 1 hard (alternating 4 free, 4 fly)
• 1 x 300 cool down
• Total: 4000 yards in an hour and 20 minutes!

All in all, great workout.  My arms are feeling nice and tired.  Just the way I remembered it!

The one thing about swimming is that you get out of shape really fast.  I hope to swim at least once a week from here on out.  I always forget how much I love it, and how great of a workout it is!

Another thing about swimming that is good but super random: it forces me to brush my hair. HAHA I know that probably sounds really weird, but I NEVER brush my hair.  I am sure that is horrible, but I do brush it out with my fingers in the shower.  Curly hair and brushes don’t get along very well. With swimming, I can’t get anywhere without kid’s apple detangler and a good brush.  My cap makes an abnormal amount of knots in my hair, and it legit takes like 5 minutes to brush after I get out of the water.

Oh well .  Maybe that’s just another reason I should swim a little more!

What’s your workout for today!?