I am sad to report that my 25K Swim Challenge is no longer happening. Due to finals and the Christmas break the pool at UMBC will be closing in a few days, which does not provide me ample time to finish this challenge.
I am still going to continue swimming as often as I can because I am really starting to enjoy my time in the water again. And I fully plan on retaking this challenge once I know the pool will actually be open for enough time.
In other news, I went for a 6 mile run yesterday during a downpour and it was incredible. It was so therapeutic to just run soaking wet while every one else is cozy inside. I felt truly unstoppable.
This run left me pretty sore and my IT band pretty angry but I needed those 6 miles. That is the longest I have run since the Baltimore Half Marathon. I was so proud of myself for just getting out there and running for as long as I felt like and as slow as I felt like.
Now I am off to finish the massive amount of homework I have to do and to start studying for finals!
Showing posts with label 25K Swim Challenge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 25K Swim Challenge. Show all posts
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Swim and Run Sunday
Today has been a great day. No reason in particular, but I woke up a little more cheery this morning ready to start my day. Unfortunately, it has been a pretty busy day full of cleaning, schoolwork, and some swimming and running on the side.
As many of you know, the weeks after Thanksgiving break mean finals for college students. Unfortunately, finals also means teachers cramming in all of the stuff they forgot to teach us earlier in the semester.
Over the next two weeks I have a final in all five of my classes plus two French papers, and French quiz, a French test, three psych papers (I'm taking two psych classes so all three papers are not for just one class), and a Russian quiz.
I have an eight page psych paper on immigration and how immigrants adapt that's due tomorrow plus a Russian quiz tomorrow. Needless to say, I have spent most of my day writing and studying.
I decided to head to the pool for a swim before even starting any of my schoolwork so that I wouldn't get overwhelmed and not go at all.
I only did 1,500 yards before swim lessons took over the pool causing me to call it a day early. Today marked the first swim of my 25K Swim Challenge, which means 23,500 yards to go!
I came back to my apartment and knocked out a serious amount of writing before I decided to head out for an easy three mile run.
I ended up doing three miles at a 9:38 pace, which is really good considering I really haven't been running that much in the past few weeks.
I knew I would get swamped with schoolwork this week so I decided to plan my workouts in advance so there is little chance of missing a workout.
Now I am ready to tackle the next two weeks and have a great Christmas break!
As many of you know, the weeks after Thanksgiving break mean finals for college students. Unfortunately, finals also means teachers cramming in all of the stuff they forgot to teach us earlier in the semester.
Over the next two weeks I have a final in all five of my classes plus two French papers, and French quiz, a French test, three psych papers (I'm taking two psych classes so all three papers are not for just one class), and a Russian quiz.
I have an eight page psych paper on immigration and how immigrants adapt that's due tomorrow plus a Russian quiz tomorrow. Needless to say, I have spent most of my day writing and studying.
I decided to head to the pool for a swim before even starting any of my schoolwork so that I wouldn't get overwhelmed and not go at all.
I only did 1,500 yards before swim lessons took over the pool causing me to call it a day early. Today marked the first swim of my 25K Swim Challenge, which means 23,500 yards to go!
I came back to my apartment and knocked out a serious amount of writing before I decided to head out for an easy three mile run.
I ended up doing three miles at a 9:38 pace, which is really good considering I really haven't been running that much in the past few weeks.
I knew I would get swamped with schoolwork this week so I decided to plan my workouts in advance so there is little chance of missing a workout.
Now I am ready to tackle the next two weeks and have a great Christmas break!
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