I drove to Summit City Bikes, local shop, in the biggest snow storm of the year last night.
There I hooked my bike up to a stationary trainer along with about ten other guys, and we pedalled in front of a TV playing a DVD of other people pedalling and grimacing on their bikes. After sixty minutes or so the pain finally ended. The title of the DVD was Maximum Threshold Training. You know that's going to hurt, and it did.
I swam today, briefly...1,750, so one mile. Two strange things happened. First, during a backstroke set I was having very lucid visions while under water dolphin kicking off the wall (this is when you are underwater, looking through the water to the ceiling). My new goggles have really opened things up for me. I felt more comfortable in the underwater world, seeing clearly all the bubbles blast past me near the surface of the water, than the world outside of the water. The water was calm, there was no one in the pool, so as I rose to the surface I could see, geometrically, the plane of the waters surface. It was so smooth I didn't want to break it for a breath. Creepy huh? I was exaggerating this experience by kicking like a dolphin nearly the length of the pool upside down, underwater. Endorphins maybe? Possibly, because the other strange thing that happened on the next set was that I got a cramp. I can't remember a time when I've gotten a cramp swimming. It was bad enough that I decided to get out and call it a day. One bad cramp spoiled my swimming 'trip'.
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