Whinging

I succeeded today!  I ate an entire sweet potato.  It was what I consider to be a normal sized sweet potato, which means when I shredded it and turned it into hash browns it yielded just about a US cup or a little over that volume (8oz. or ~240mL).  But my after swim breakfast bowl had a lot more going on than hashed sweet potato (which shredded by my shredder and cooked maybe a tad too long yielded an almost cheesy consistency  which is awesome). It included a slew of nightshades (tomatoes, green bell peppers, and wonderful mouth feel spicy green jalapeno peppers), a big handful of baby spinach, a little over a tablespoon of chopped onion for flavor, some garlic (maybe a couple of teaspoons), an egg supposedly passed by inspection of the USDA to be organic, cage free, etc. and a little olive oil for the stir frying process. Oh yeah, and topped with that wonderful creation Cock Sauce! Well, most people know it as Srirachi Sauce, but it has a giant cock on the bottle, so why bust an un-cleft palette trying to say "srirachi" let alone try to spell it out?

Anyway, second breakfast aside, the day has started fairly well.  I actually got up at 5am with the intent of joining the Master's swim team training session at the pool, to woefully discover that my flabby form has lost everything it had started to gain in terms of muscle from my terrible eating and lack of exercise last week.  Moving week killed my progress because of my inability to be steadfast in my training routine.  Today, sucked, in terms of exercise.

I skipped Master's today, but I did get to the pool.  Before the pool though, I ran through my sun salutation (which felt good, but I know I will be in pain tomorrow) and began my restrengthening on my legs.  This is where I discovered that that excessive five more pounds from almost two full weeks of bad choices really made my workout suck.  Because my ankles and knees are already in poor shape, I backed off on reps today.  We will see on Thursday if I can do more, but the knees were protesting despite the good form.  Oh and the pool!  New pool, high temps (claiming to be between 84*F - 86*F), I seriously felt like I was swimming through pudding. I don't remember ever feeling so sluggish in the water.  I had a workout from Ruth Kazez'z site, and I started it, but promptly decided that I also needed to start this over. After the first 200 of the 4*200 warm up, I switched to a ladder with the intent to finish it.  Needless to say, my body wanted to revolt today and all I managed was this:

200 Freestyle Warm Up
100 Freestyle Swim
4*50 Freestyle
3*100 Freestyle
2*150 Freestyle
200 Freestyle
50 Freestyle Cool down
1350 total

I suppose for an out of conditioned person, this is not too shabby, however it is 300 shy of a swimmer's mile which is my goal anytime I swim.  I will try again tomorrow to hit my mile at the very least.  If I get in a good walk and do well on my cycling endurance training tonight, perhaps I will not feel so heavy and gross. Ah fast food, I don't even like you most of the time, yet last week you were easy and tantalizing.