Wednesday, January 2, 2008

I'm Pooped

Tired. Spent. Worn out. Dead. Too pooped to participate!

I think it has been my diet these past few days, or maybe I'm just increasing my volume a little too quickly. But no matter what it is, I'm drained.

This morning I woke up and jumped on the bike trainer for an hour; we'll call it 20 miles because the effort was good. Then I spent most the day being a bum. I had a pizza for lunch and my mom made cheeseburgers for dinner, so I had crap in the tank when I went for my swim tonight.

The game plan was to swim a mile, but after half that I was completely drained. My form was falling apart, each lap was sending my heart rate up to 170+, and my arms were dead. Rather than toughing through it I decided to call it a night and come back another day. Since I'm still trying to get my technique down, swimming half a mile with poor technique would have only done more harm than good. On the bright side, though, I'm glad it isn't injury holding me back this time!

Then I had a super-fun adventure trying to get my registration sticker on my license plate. I followed the directions, but apparently the glue doesn't stick when its around absolute zero outside. So I decided to try out super gluing it to my license plate, and so far so good. Although now I have super glue all over my fingers, and I'm probably going to spend the rest of the night trying to peel it (and my skin) off my hands!

5 comments:

Stuart said...

Must be all that sleep you've been getting...you're not used to the activity. Gotta be lean and mean with bags under your eyes you can trip over!

Nancy said...

ABSOLUTE ZERO!!?? Where the hell do you live? :D Just kidding.

That super glue thing is a little scary but pretty cool if it works. Thanks for the spreadsheet. I went to an ISU basketball game so haven't delved into it yet.

Marcy said...

Nailpolish remover is supposed to get that stuff off (I think . . if I remember correctly) Although I'm pretty sure you don't have a bottle of that laying around in your room :P Or maybe you do . . . . ;-)

Bill Carter said...

I here you brother. I am feeling so blah right now I can't even believe it. I don't know if I've got a little bug or it is the weather, time of year or what, but I stink. My times are lousy and I am really struggling with my pace... Oh well. Its got to get better right?? Hang in there in the meantime.

nwgdc said...

nice reference to "absolute zero!" that's 0 Calvin, right? -273 C? oh how i miss the chem classes...