What's this? Two blog entries in ONE day? Well, I'm making a conscious effort to be more diligent about certain things and this is one of them. My Calendar says today is the day for a Discipline in Focus post and this is the time for me to do it, so here it is.
My swim has been struggling a lot lately, but I'm optimistice that my struggles are resulting in me becoming a better, more balanced swimmer. How? Here's how.
For quite a while I was experiencing soreness and tiredness in my left shoulder that was disprportionate to my right. It's one thing to be beat from a swim, quite another to be struggling, and very frustrated, because one arm is overtired. I got to dread my swims. After some discussions with Mark that mostly involved him knocking a little common sense into me...
Mark: You're icing your shoulder when it's sore, right?
Me: Uhm....
My swimming got cut WAY back and I started from scratch with learning to breathe on my right while swimming. I always breathed on my left before. We're still bringing my yardage back up to where it was before, but now it's with me breathing on both sides (though not bilaterally yet) and with the apparently tricky advice that if my shoulder bothers me, I'll ice it. It's a good thing Captain Obvious has a coach or he might forget to bring his bike to the race one of these days.
I'm not nearly as coordinated breathing on my right as on my left, but it's improving a lot and my shoulder feels fine.
1 comment:
2 posts in one day? GREAT! Keep on keeping on!
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