Normally Monday is my Yoga day, but for some reason, I wasn't really feeling up to it. During the day, I started thinking what I could do instead, and the idea of doing the P90x Legs & Back came to mind. I've been skipping it recently because it makes my quads tight for a few days, and with long runs I didn't want to have my quads be tight and then put nearly 20 miles on them. But if I was going to be skipping Yoga, and probably doing that on Tuesday instead, it gave me an opportunity to get the legs strength routine in this week in plenty of time for recovery for a Thursday mid-week run. Actually, if things went really well, since yoga is a good recovery activity - it's possible that I would be up for a mid week run on Wednesday. But either way, by doing the legs routine tonight and yoga tomorrow, it gave me some additional options.
Then when I got home, I found I had this waiting for me. I ordered it on Saturday (9/24) at noon, with an estimated delivery date range of Sept 29 - Oct 4. It arrived the next business day. WTF. It's almost like USPS is working double time to justify being kept around, what with all the talk of removing post offices around the country.
So, obviously with my new toy, I was anxious to give it a spin. So instead of the full legs & back routine, I did the first half (which still is enough of a workout to induce soreness) and then headed to the pool. The only thing of note with the P90x routine for today is that I'm able to do 4 pull/chin ups consecutively. Then after a 10 second break I was able to knock out a few more. Considering that when I started I couldn't do any, I'm happy with that.
The Sportcount took a little getting used to, but it was definitely nice having something to count laps with again! I had to stop twice, once to adjust my goggles, and again to tighten the finger strap on the counter - but apparently I messed up invoking the units 'pause' function, because when I was reviewing the data after 36 laps, I saw two lap times were way off - instead of about 53-55 seconds, they were more like 1:40.
Either way, total time was about 32 minutes for the 36 laps. I'd have a more precise count, but in my attempt to shut the thing off, I ended up resetting it and lost the exact stopwatch time. I do remember it being about 33 minutes and change, but considering there was a solid minute to a minute and a half that was accidentally added due to messing up the pause function, 32 minutes is a pretty darm close estimate. The good news is that I didn't lose much swimming performance over the past couple months. The bad news is that I went 5-6 laps before I remembered to breathe bilaterally...
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