{"id":1676,"date":"2010-04-16T12:01:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T19:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/?p=1676"},"modified":"2010-04-16T12:04:38","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T19:04:38","slug":"swim-training-1000m-wed-450m-fri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/2010\/04\/16\/swim-training-1000m-wed-450m-fri\/","title":{"rendered":"Swim Training (1000m Wed; 450m Fri)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to do my lunchtime workout on Wednesday &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymile.com\/people\/RaDragon\/entries\/1479871\">1000m swim<\/a>! I was particularly encouraged to workout by my &#8220;new&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.runninginpigtails.com\/?p=3171\">virtual training buddy<\/a> Sheryl! Yesh, we have a shareable Google calendar and each entered our training timetables into it. It&#8217;s one of the better ideas that either of us had had (yet)! LOL. Anyway we&#8217;re hoping that this will help us get back to fitness and obtain the &#8220;personal records&#8221; we crave for this year: me for the San Diego Rock &#8216;n&#8217; Roll marathon and Sheryl for the California Int&#8217;l Marathon. I think that by being accountable to someone else&#8217;s training, you&#8217;ll find renewed vigour to your own daily schedule and you definitely won&#8217;t feel so alone when doing it! Plus, if either of you skip a workout, it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IcTNIAWetRI\">METAL SPATULA<\/a> (1:09) time! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, that being said, I skipped my scheduled &#8220;Strength and Stretch: P90X&#8221; workout last night. Eek. But I have two good excuses:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Sisy was hungry and I had to make her and my little bro supper<\/li>\n<li>Sisy wanted to go swim at 6:30AM on Friday (today)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So what does a good li&#8217;l sis do? Comply. Resistance was futile. \ud83d\ude09 Checkout the delicious (yet easy) meal I made for them last night:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1677\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-content\/2010\/04\/chicken-tortilla-strips.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1677\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1677\" title=\"Marinated chicken over tortilla strips\" src=\"http:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-content\/2010\/04\/chicken-tortilla-strips-360x240.jpg\" alt=\"Marinated chicken over tortilla strips\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-content\/2010\/04\/chicken-tortilla-strips-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-content\/2010\/04\/chicken-tortilla-strips-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-content\/2010\/04\/chicken-tortilla-strips-226x150.jpg 226w, https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-content\/2010\/04\/chicken-tortilla-strips.jpg 972w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1677\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marinated chicken over tortilla strips<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I was literally about to begin the P90X workout when my sis came home and forget to grab some take out. &gt;_&lt; Thank goodness that I had just gone to the market to buy food; otherwise, we would&#8217;ve been eating my &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/2010\/04\/13\/weekend-food-recap-4\/\">nuked salmon<\/a>&#8221; dish.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, since I was able to go swim with her at six-friggin-thirty this morning, I guess missing my workout last night wasn&#8217;t so bad. It turned out great that we were there when the pool just opened as there were only a handful of (senior citizen) swimmers <em>and<\/em> I got my *own* lane! At the same time, I hadn&#8217;t swam that early in the morning (and was still too sleepy!) and the fact that I have my long run training tomorroz (17 miles!), I ended up doing some sort of mini-workout with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymile.com\/people\/RaDragon\/entries\/1498874\">100m drill<\/a> and some paddle-board exercises (450m total for nearly 25 minutes).<\/p>\n<p>Overall, a great workout week. Two and a half stars on my calendar and one big star will be slapped (for sure) after my long run tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>TGIF!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to do my lunchtime workout on Wednesday &#8212; 1000m swim! I was particularly encouraged to workout by my &#8220;new&#8221; virtual training buddy Sheryl! Yesh, we have a shareable Google calendar and each entered our training timetables into it. It&#8217;s one of the better ideas that either of us had had (yet)! LOL. Anyway  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/2010\/04\/16\/swim-training-1000m-wed-450m-fri\/\"> read more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[129,4],"tags":[109,195,107],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1676"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1680,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions\/1680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}