going on strike

i believe it's been 11 days since my hams started hurting, and drama queen that i am, can't remember what it feels like to run happy. swimming was starting to hurt in spite of my denial (my drug of choice), and it took me a good two days to talk myself into not working out all together for two days at least, until things were at least feeling like they were improving. i feel like i'm telling my legs, no working out until you stop complaining! which means that prospects for philly are not looking bright at all. ::sigh:: what a bummer. but priority #1 is to train imlp healthy and i have until mid-december to get there.

saturday's swim was fun- 4200m w/ a workout full of n/s and desc, in decreasing m's. the end of the set had 5x100 "best average" and i was kind of worried about running out of time to do this, so i did them in the middle and was pretty pleased to note that my 100 times on my own are still more or less what they were before. this time around, i've been working on relaxing by trying to pretend that i'm on drugs, taking longer and wider strokes, and trying to find the "zen of swimming" as one of the tnya coaches had told me earlier this week. i feel like i'm getting the hang of it and am enjoying swimming, in groups and alone. then i went to get a horrendously painful but very helpful massage from my favourite masseuse, christine. christine was quite amazed by how tight my muscles were and laughed at me while i whimpered and she continued to chat away. for a blissful 1 hour afterwards, my leg didn't hurt at all. i'm worried about my advil intake (from 12-16 a day last week) so am trying really hard not to take any more.

after the 45 minutes of torture, i went tv-shopping w/ A and fell asleep while he was making a very exciting purchase.. i am such a supportive gf! it was actually amusing b/c i was napping next to another lady who was sitting on the couch while her man was wandering around the aisles of best buy. then fro-yo with sb, G9, fb and A before the girls went to fb's house to watch sex and the city with soup, fruit, dark chocolate, wine and champagne.

i was determined to sleep in on sunday, and A woke me up at 8:30 -- actually, a couple times before that but i refused to budge -- to watch ironman on his awesome 40" 1080 lcd hdtv (see.. i pay attention) and home theatre. then i did responsible things like work on my budget and work on work stuff. it is so strange not working out. what do people do who don't have a workout schedule...? all of the sudden there is so much time. i.e., when i got home, i cooked (and i use the word "cook" very loosely) two pots of soup, two meat dishes and got tomorrow's breakfast and lunch ready, and did more work so that i could sit on frozen peas. i really hope i feel better soon...all this sitting still and productive-ness is making me uncomfortable.