Ah Mondays...

Today's workout:
Swim-30 minutes
Recover-23 hours and 30 minutes

I'm usually a little more tired on Mondays then any other day of the week. But this Monday and last Monday have seriously kicked my butt big time. It's hard to be back at work at 8 am and spend the day sitting in a chair most of the time. I feel like if I could either move around a little more, or lie completely straight, like on a couch, it would be better than this in-between world of sitting for a while and then standing.

Today my shoulders and neck were so painful. It has to be from the waves yesterday. I had to compensate for the big waves by picking my head up farther out of the water, and then bending it down at a different angle than usual to avoid drinking water every breath. I borrowed the nurse's heating pad this afternoon and that helped to loosen up my shoulders a little bit. And I'm super tired.

In the training book it says, every now and then, "If you feel too tired, best to ride the couch today instead of this optional workout." Up until last week I haven't felt too tired to complete the optional workouts. But these past two weeks-oh boy. I can really tell the intensity has picked up. I had no problems today when Kristi said that we should just swim for 30 minutes!

The swim actually felt pretty good. The water was soooooo nice and warm! Nothing like swimming in the arctic yesterday. And it felt good to really stretch out on each stroke. But now I'm on the couch and getting sore again and tired. Tomorrow will be another sick day for me so I can catch my breath before heading into another crazy week of working out.

I forgot to post this picture over the weekend. I was so tired on Saturday evening after our eleven hour day that I didn't even care that I went to bed with dirty dishes in the sink! And that's something that would normally never happen!

So instead of getting frustrated and staying up even later to clean them up, I simply took a photo of the sink and went to bed. Hahaha!

Tonight Chris and I are going to have dinner with Michael Scott. I've been laughing about the last episode all day today.

G'night!
M :)