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Training? What is this? Is this a new Word for me? Well this is how I felt this week. I have not moved at all. I hope it will be good to take a step back and to be able to move forward.
It was supposed to be the first week of my base 1 phase but I had too many things to do this week that I just could not do them all and I had to prioritize.
I did a double session on Tuesday, swim and bike. Long swim and not so long ride. Overall I was ok.
Then I did not rejoin training until Friday when I has scheduled another very easy double session just to get ready for the weekend but I was too tired because the night before was up all night long and I could only swim. Although I thought I would do a short swim and then I felt good in the water and decided not to do the bike ride and just stay a little longer in the water.
On Saturday I was very busy and lazy, I had scheduled the longest ride of the week and because I was so tired and busy I decided to shift it to Sunday morning, so on Saturday I did not do anything either.
On Sunday I woke up at 5am just to get ready to go to the bike, but once again I was busy, I started to work and I decided to keep working that going to the bike. At 11am I had a solidarity swim to raise money for La Marató de TV3, 3100m swim from L’Estartit to les illes Medes and back. I was late, so I started in the back of the pack. The water felt very cold but I thought it was just because I did not have time to adapt to it. I started to feel good and fast, I was passing many people, the water was still very cold, there were no waves, and it was a sunny day with no wind, what else could we ask for? There were about 150 swimmers. I am very happy of this swim because I had set a goal that I wanted to cover that distance in under 1h and well I did! Even though I swam more than I had to because the turnaround buoy was not a buoy was a rock and I could not differentiate from the background and then my goggles got foggy and I just could not see the course well. A kayak had to come and remind me to move to the left because I was too wide. I remember thinking, good I’ll just have to turn right and I’ll get into the harbor, pool like conditions except for the temperature, and it is going to be even quieter if it is possible and it is going to get warmer. Hell no!!! It got colder, so at the start point and at the end the water was 12ºC and out in the swim the water felt much hotter and it was only one degree warmer. Overall I had heaps of fun and I finished the swim in under 58minuts, so mission accomplished.
This week I just happened to watch a 3D animation of a conversation between an Ironman wannabe and a non-athlete. I liked it a lot and it remembered me how many times I had such talk. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B03dFMG8nR4
This year’s La Marató de TV3 raises money to support research for brain injury and spinal cord injuries.
My heel is not cured yet, sometimes it hurts more than other times and I just want to get over it. It is killing me.
A friend of my talked to me about leaving to a different country and I is an idea that I am strongly consider. It sounds fun if I am allowed to.
PS: I wanted to post only songs with lyrics on the video, and so far I had only posted songs either in English or Spanish, but since I swam for La Marató I’ll break this rule. Ever since I listened this song I loved it and yesterday it was in my mind during the first strokes of the swim, then I just focused to meet my goal.
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