20 Perfect Pushups!

Wednesday Highlights:
Executed 20 Perfect Pushups in a pre-practice dryland session. After three times doing pushups, there is some improvement! I've also added F&M-style abs into the mix for a total of 20 minutes of dryland (12 minutes of abs, 8 minute pushup set)
Swam with Cambridge Multi-Sport....600 warmup DPS, 8x50s 25 head lead balance dril 25 FR, 8x75 50 drill, 25 swim (actually this was single arm but i HATE single arm. HATE.)
Main set: 4x125s on 1:50 (but I decided to do 150s and said I will do my best to make the time, ended up making 2:00 with 5-10 sec rest), 4x100 on 1:30 fast, 4x75 on 1:25 REALLY fast.
When I started the workout even though it was going well I was feeling a little asthma trouble, I did my best to focus on good DPS and did well until the 75s...which I held back still and didn't go really fast. Even so I had to get out then.

It is always a hard decision when asthma strikes during a workout. It is even harder when you are an adult swimmer with goals because you have to make and be responsible for all of your decisions. You are still stuck there, feeling the sweat drying to your cooling skin, watching everyone enjoy the workout that you are missing out on, wondering if the best thing to do is to continue or to go home. It is difficult to think rationally because you have too many emotions in the way. What would happen if you keep swimming? What would happen if you don't? And all this is going on in your mind while you feel your ribs sucking your lungs away from your swimsuit and in towards your body.

No wonder I pushed myself too hard in college.

Anyway, I made the right choice tonight....still got about 4,000 in and it was all good quality. I am not happy that I had to leave half an hour early but now I am old enough to realize what happens, and that this can mean more swimming in the long run.

And I got in my 20 perfect pushups.