60 Days to Triathlon- Day 28
This weekend I spent some time focusing on my swimming technique. I did plenty of warm up exercises on my bed again and I nearly fell off the bed each time again! You all remember the embarrassing story of me falling off my bed in front of my husband so I thought that I would practice my ‘bed strokes’ a little not only to not look like an idiot if my husband happened to walk in on me but to practice my balance and grace for the water.
My trainer’s help last week was so influential that it inspired me to truly push myself in the pool. Before I was just taking it slow and not really pushing myself like I should have been partly because I did not have the lung capacity for 15 laps of consecutive swimming and partly because I was embarrassed about my technique in the pool.
So… I practiced and I pushed and got plenty of water in my ears! Swimming is truly the perfect all-body workout and while I would love to do it everyday I don’t know if I can handle the complete drowsyness feeling you get once out of the pool and on a comfy surface such as a couch or a bed. After a good swim I always want to take a nap, which is not always convenient with a beginner walker in my house!
I’m still trying to find the perfect time to swim as well because if I go in the morning then I can come home and shower for the day… but then I’m drowsy the rest of the day and don’t get as much done. If I go in the afternoon then I usually don’t shower right away when I get home because I have to get dinner ready and I end up looking like a bum when my husband gets home (which can get old not only for my husband but me too!), and I never seem to get myself to go swimming at night, although it would be the perfect sleep aid, because I want to enjoy time with my husband! Workouts including swimming just happen to be easiest to plan on a day-by-day basis.
I’m really looking forward to the triathlon that is now only a few weeks away (and by few I mean 5 weeks away). I’m excited to complete a goal and be able to feel a sense of accomplishment for myself. Yesterday while I was getting ready for church I decided to put on a Relief Society CD that included some inspirational music specifically target for Relief Society sisters. I have listened to this CD plenty of times in my life but this is the first time I have listened to it while being a wife and a mother. It was exactly what I needed.
A lot of the songs on there were extremely relatable to me and my current life circumstance and one song stuck out in particular to me. It was about a woman who had to put aside her dreams and wants for her family but she did it not because she had to but because she wanted to and that someday she would return to those dreams. This is kind of what I’m feeling like right now because I am ‘comfortable’ enough in my life right now to be able to achieve some of those dreams… problem is… I don’t necessarily know where to start.
I feel like I’m starting this journey of life all over again and now as a wife and mother am starting to see clearly, even more clearly than when I was single, who I am as a person and my place and purpose in life. I am the kind of person who believes everything happens for a reason and it is our life experiences that truly shape who we are and not the other way around as the world tends to view it. The world tells us that we need to find ourselves before we make life decisions when in reality it is exactly the opposite. I found myself in motherhood and wifehood just as I’m still finding myself through this triathlon training!







