Friday, August 12th 2011

Swim:  easy 2,000 meters

Core strength workout took about 2 hours

Comments:
My schedule said “recovery swim” which I did in a cold lake without a wet suit — I figured the cold water would help my legs.
I swam early in the morning, so had the day free …. but I was too tired to do anything, and stayed at the house while Sophie and the girls went into the mountains sight seeing.

Late afternoon, I met Mario at the gym for our core strength workout.   I have 4 core workouts a week – 2 normal core and 2 core strength.  The strength training sessions are hell.  We will video tape the next session for the documentary.  After the workout, Sophie picked me up and drove me to a small river near our house … and I stood in the cold water to ice my legs.

Its worth mentioning… some austrian boy scouts were near by and told me the water was 16.5 degress celcius …. It took me a few minutes to where I could tolerate the pain from the cold water …. I kept having to jump out becasue the cold water hurt so much and in the end I lasted 10 minutes up to my thighs in the cold water.

The day I swam the english channel last September the water was 15.3 degrees. 

The power of the mind.

Saturday – I have a 8 hour training session.  6 hour bike and 2 hour run.