Nostalgia

Tuesday - 3 mi and Gym
Wednesday - Swim
Thursday - 3 mi and Gym

Ok my entries have been kind of pathetic lately. I was about to write the same thing as I've been writing the last week or so. Foam Roller, will I or won't I get better, blah blah blah. I'll spare you for today.

For the Brown folks (and KT if she ever manages to navigate the world wide web and find my blog), I got to hang out with KT for a bit this past saturday. It was quite fabulous. We went to my fav breakfast joint and chatted it up. I got all the gossip from NY and she got no gossip from me because I am not that exciting. :-P Anyhoo, it always brightens my day to talk to and especially to SEE one of my '05 ladies :) and despite the fact that I had to work that afternoon, I was in quite the good mood.

So a LONG time ago I had a convo with Jilane about how work was getting in the way of my life. And hanging out with KT and mulling over that conversation made me really miss college. I spent so much of it worrying about one thing or another and I realize now how much i had it made. College was absolutely wonderful. I ran, I learned, I hung out with friends, and I got free coffee for working for BUDS. Ok I get free coffee now but I have to work all day to earn it so it doesn't count. I miss having theme parties every weekend. I miss going to the ratty in anticipation of what crap they were going to serve that night. I miss the fact that every weekend something absolutely ridiculous happened and spending sunday morning's run gossiping about it. I miss going to the library right after dinner and then chatting with the team instead of studying, then going to Jo's to eat a whole bunch of crap before going to the dorm to watch a whole bunch of crap on TV. I miss spending hours in the training room rolling and icing, I miss away meets in NY and Boston, I miss per diem, I miss all the inside jokes, I miss bitching for an entire run about being cold and yes, i even kinda miss the bun huggers ;)

Ok, that's all I got for now.

PUMPED!

Run - 2.5

Swim - 60 mins

The combo of yesterday and today's workout has left me curled in a little ball in my papasan chair watching people who are insanely faster than me duke it out on the track in Boston. I am very excited to get to the point where workouts don't leave me feeling beat. But given my lack of prolonged exercise over the last two months, and the new fatigue associated with exercising muscles in swimming which haven't been worked really at all before...it's gonna take time. 

Run felt good today. My plan is to only run every other day but because I need to have a set schedule (because I am OCD) and there are seven days in the week, this requires two days of back to back running, which I am putting on the weekend since I enjoy getting out a little later for my runs. 

I felt like I took a step back today in swimming, but really it was necessary to take the time to tweak my form and really think about my future in swimming, where I'd prefer to be fast rather than slow. Presently I take a breath only on my right side, and every time I take a stroke on the right side. So now I'm moving it up to taking a breath every three strokes, thus hopefully improving on speed a little since I won't be coming up as much, and also so I'm more even in my swimming instead of only rocking to my right side. Unfortunately this means I don't get to breathe as much, which is never fun. I'm not a huge fan of not breathing. So I'm back down to swimming 50yd intervals. Fascinating, I know. 

So, I'm super "PUMPED" about the increase in Bruno bloggers. Jilane started it all, but now Bridget, Nora, and Madeleine? This is fab. And speaking of pumped. So when I was at Brown, I used to make fun of meredith and her constant use of the word "wicked." In fact, I had so much fun making fun of here that I accidentally started using it in my regular language, even when she wasn't around. Same with the word pumped. It was originally a parody of ol' Rickles, but I realize now I use it on pretty much a daily basis. It's to the point where it's one of my "words" kinda like "spaz" and "dude" yet people not from Brown don't realize its origins. So I kinda accidentally became a tool. 

That is all.