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Fic Update
Aug. 22nd, 2010 03:16 pmI've finally finished ch. 25 of Leap of Faith and sent it off to be beta'd. Man, this was a stubborn chapter. Now I'm off to go swimming. Aiming for 21.5 laps at a minimum today. Didn't go yesterday.
Aug. 22nd, 2010
Fic Update
Aug. 22nd, 2010 03:16 pmI've finally finished ch. 25 of Leap of Faith and sent it off to be beta'd. Man, this was a stubborn chapter. Now I'm off to go swimming. Aiming for 21.5 laps at a minimum today. Didn't go yesterday.
25 freaking laps today! I so rock the pool. *glees* At ten laps I was like, I don't want to even get to 20 right now, I want to quit and sit in the hot tub, but I pushed past it and right around fifteen got some real power going. Now I need to decide whether I am going to go for 50 laps next or simply try to do 25 laps faster. Today it took me 45 minutes to do 25 laps. Fortunately no one else wanted to use the lap lane during family swim. It's probably better for me to stick with 25 and work on speed until school starts because they have a three hour daily lap swim during the day and I could be in there long enough to hit 50 if I wanted to then without worrying about inconveniencing other people. It's pretty dead during the day the staff tells me, usually just one die hard swimmer in there at a time.
My crawl stroke is improving and smoothing out again. I wear goggles, but have decided if I close my eyes when I turn my head to breathe it for some reason makes the whole process go smoother. It sounds weird but it works and getting the timing down on the breathing again is what will help me go even faster and smoother through the water. So far crawl stroke and frog stroke are the only strokes I can do in a straight line. *laughs* Everything else is a bit crooked.
I added in the back stroke today, just on two lengths of the pool. Got to add that in carefully and build up those particular shoulder muscles. I do not need to screw up my rotator cuff just when I'm starting out. The frog stroke is my strongest stroke and I tend to do it the most. I can swim half the length of the pool before surfacing on that one. I also do the side stroke a lot, the buttefly a little, and something on my back that I'm not even sure has a name. It's sort of like doing the butterfly but on your back and your arms don't go above the surface of the water but they go around like the butterfly stroke underneath and your legs flutter kick. My goal is to at least do half crawl stroke because it is the best for overall body movement and exercise and then the side strokes for at least 1/4 of them.
I feel good. The endorphin high is awesome. I really feel like I'm making some progress on building up the strength in my knee and starting to improve my fitness. Now that the exericise is moving along again, I should probably start poking at my food. I've been...lazy lately about cooking and eating out too much and having too much in the way of convenience foods. I need to go back to my healthier way of eating and cooking. I've got all the ingredients. Maybe I can ride this energy high and make up some easy meals for the next few days tonight.
My crawl stroke is improving and smoothing out again. I wear goggles, but have decided if I close my eyes when I turn my head to breathe it for some reason makes the whole process go smoother. It sounds weird but it works and getting the timing down on the breathing again is what will help me go even faster and smoother through the water. So far crawl stroke and frog stroke are the only strokes I can do in a straight line. *laughs* Everything else is a bit crooked.
I added in the back stroke today, just on two lengths of the pool. Got to add that in carefully and build up those particular shoulder muscles. I do not need to screw up my rotator cuff just when I'm starting out. The frog stroke is my strongest stroke and I tend to do it the most. I can swim half the length of the pool before surfacing on that one. I also do the side stroke a lot, the buttefly a little, and something on my back that I'm not even sure has a name. It's sort of like doing the butterfly but on your back and your arms don't go above the surface of the water but they go around like the butterfly stroke underneath and your legs flutter kick. My goal is to at least do half crawl stroke because it is the best for overall body movement and exercise and then the side strokes for at least 1/4 of them.
I feel good. The endorphin high is awesome. I really feel like I'm making some progress on building up the strength in my knee and starting to improve my fitness. Now that the exericise is moving along again, I should probably start poking at my food. I've been...lazy lately about cooking and eating out too much and having too much in the way of convenience foods. I need to go back to my healthier way of eating and cooking. I've got all the ingredients. Maybe I can ride this energy high and make up some easy meals for the next few days tonight.
25 freaking laps today! I so rock the pool. *glees* At ten laps I was like, I don't want to even get to 20 right now, I want to quit and sit in the hot tub, but I pushed past it and right around fifteen got some real power going. Now I need to decide whether I am going to go for 50 laps next or simply try to do 25 laps faster. Today it took me 45 minutes to do 25 laps. Fortunately no one else wanted to use the lap lane during family swim. It's probably better for me to stick with 25 and work on speed until school starts because they have a three hour daily lap swim during the day and I could be in there long enough to hit 50 if I wanted to then without worrying about inconveniencing other people. It's pretty dead during the day the staff tells me, usually just one die hard swimmer in there at a time.
My crawl stroke is improving and smoothing out again. I wear goggles, but have decided if I close my eyes when I turn my head to breathe it for some reason makes the whole process go smoother. It sounds weird but it works and getting the timing down on the breathing again is what will help me go even faster and smoother through the water. So far crawl stroke and frog stroke are the only strokes I can do in a straight line. *laughs* Everything else is a bit crooked.
I added in the back stroke today, just on two lengths of the pool. Got to add that in carefully and build up those particular shoulder muscles. I do not need to screw up my rotator cuff just when I'm starting out. The frog stroke is my strongest stroke and I tend to do it the most. I can swim half the length of the pool before surfacing on that one. I also do the side stroke a lot, the buttefly a little, and something on my back that I'm not even sure has a name. It's sort of like doing the butterfly but on your back and your arms don't go above the surface of the water but they go around like the butterfly stroke underneath and your legs flutter kick. My goal is to at least do half crawl stroke because it is the best for overall body movement and exercise and then the side strokes for at least 1/4 of them.
I feel good. The endorphin high is awesome. I really feel like I'm making some progress on building up the strength in my knee and starting to improve my fitness. Now that the exericise is moving along again, I should probably start poking at my food. I've been...lazy lately about cooking and eating out too much and having too much in the way of convenience foods. I need to go back to my healthier way of eating and cooking. I've got all the ingredients. Maybe I can ride this energy high and make up some easy meals for the next few days tonight.
My crawl stroke is improving and smoothing out again. I wear goggles, but have decided if I close my eyes when I turn my head to breathe it for some reason makes the whole process go smoother. It sounds weird but it works and getting the timing down on the breathing again is what will help me go even faster and smoother through the water. So far crawl stroke and frog stroke are the only strokes I can do in a straight line. *laughs* Everything else is a bit crooked.
I added in the back stroke today, just on two lengths of the pool. Got to add that in carefully and build up those particular shoulder muscles. I do not need to screw up my rotator cuff just when I'm starting out. The frog stroke is my strongest stroke and I tend to do it the most. I can swim half the length of the pool before surfacing on that one. I also do the side stroke a lot, the buttefly a little, and something on my back that I'm not even sure has a name. It's sort of like doing the butterfly but on your back and your arms don't go above the surface of the water but they go around like the butterfly stroke underneath and your legs flutter kick. My goal is to at least do half crawl stroke because it is the best for overall body movement and exercise and then the side strokes for at least 1/4 of them.
I feel good. The endorphin high is awesome. I really feel like I'm making some progress on building up the strength in my knee and starting to improve my fitness. Now that the exericise is moving along again, I should probably start poking at my food. I've been...lazy lately about cooking and eating out too much and having too much in the way of convenience foods. I need to go back to my healthier way of eating and cooking. I've got all the ingredients. Maybe I can ride this energy high and make up some easy meals for the next few days tonight.