I went to swim this morning with my regular Luna bar and Nuun cocktail. It was clearly NOT ENOUGH!! It was a rough morning in the pool. It started decent but got bad real quick!
I have said this before and this probably will not be the last time I mention it: I HATE THRESHOLD SWIMS! I always get nervous whether it is just a work out or a testing day. Today was no different. The lane I swim is has a threshold pace of 1:45 per 100 meters. I am pretty sure I am in the wrong lane but Chris, our mean awesome coach, insists that I swim there. When I drop down a lane he always asks “are you tired today?” Why YES I am tired but that is no different than any other day that I am awake and working out at 5:30AM!!
Anywho! We had a rather long warm up and then our main set was: 8×200 at threshold pace. Which means we had to complete the 200 in 3:30-3:35 and then we got 20 seconds of rest. I was done after the first 4. I thought I was going to die after 6. By the 8th one I thought someone please kill me…but at least we were done!! I just had a HARD mental toughness day. Erica told me she had a hard day too so it was not just me. 
I got home and was totally RAVENOUS! I was so hungry I thought I might actually die right now. I drank some chocolate milk and made an egg scramble on a brown rice tortilla:
I do actually eat healthy. I know it is hard to believe with all the treats I bake. I just like treats. Lots of them!!
I was also very tired. I took a quick power nap and went outside to find out that it was raining. Dang it! 
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I tried to embrace it because starting next week my commute doubles and it will still be raining for the next 5 months!
To top off my day: I had a 5-year-old bite me! The most ironic thing about that is: He said “remember when I bit you the first time I saw you.” As a matter a fact I do! I am always very careful with him because of that first time! I was in a hurry and my boss was supposed to see him and she was running late(big surprise)!! I was just caught off guard and it HURT!!!
I was pleasantly surprised for the dry commute home. Thank you rain gods!
Did you do anything in the rain today? OR What did you NOT do in the rain today??
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It can only get better….RIGHT??!!
In the rain? Nope it was sunny and 60 here today:).
So Jealous!!
But I WILL be with you in the sunny and 60 degree weather this weekend!
Yeah!! Bird Legs and Triathlete Treats reunite!
Did you ask the boys mother if he had a rabies shot? Your eating of sweets must make you tasty… for dogs and now humans
That would have made for a better story if I had asked her if he had a rabies shot!!
Holy crap that sounds like an awful day! Especially the biting part — that is outrageous! Who does that?!
I felt like a cat in water at swim yesterday! So hard! Your breakfast looked amazing. I need to get some rice tortillas.
Rice tortillas are the best!! I like brown rice pasta too! Trader Joes baby!!!
Great swim- I can imagine a workout like that would be mentally tough. I can’t believe a kid bit you! I’m glad you had some reprieve on your way home!
I had a bust of a day so far- woke up at 4:45 to swim before work, got to the gym, and they told me the pool was closed because the lifeguard didn’t show up! I didn’t have my workout stuff with me either
To get up that early and get to the pool and it be closed…that has actually happened to me too but it was for maintanance! I hope you had a better day!!!