The first time I lost a lot of weight I really didn't have a athletic goal in mind. Basically I was working out just to lose the weight and that was that. This time around I have goals, like doing this triathlon in April. So now what was just working out to burn calories has become training. And let me tell you, the difference is astonishing. Training means always trying to get better, faster, stronger, etc. And that means intervals.
Let me tell you, I hate intervals. Going flat out, then stepping back, then going flat out again. Nothing makes you feel your age like a tough set of intervals. The results are nice. But the training itself feels like shit.
Another thing that makes you feel your age is when your baby sitter talks about her swim team meets and how she is twice as fast as you are in the water when she is just idling. When she is racing she is "like way faster". Ugh. Makes me want to pull a Yoda and say, "Swim as fast when this old you are you will not."
On a funny note, here is a hysterical ad campaign from Polaroid for their sunglass line.
Posted by jherr at March 2, 2007 03:54 PMShe said she was faster than you??
Posted by: jeanetta84 at March 2, 2007 09:10 PMHer standard time for 100 meters was 1:05, mine is 2:10. And she said that in competition should would get down to 0:52.
I went flat out yesterday and did 50 in 0:41, which would give me 100 in 1:22 if I could keep going. But still, that's absolutely flat out for me.
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