It isn't all storm clouds

Grumpy last 24 hours or so. You know those days where you start off by thinking 'I don't think this is going to work out very well'. Then you go into your day, trying to remain positive and make it work, but in the end it doesn't work out very well.

That pretty much summarises my day at work yesterday.

Which is annoying, because it started out so nicely with that session on the Kickr.

As a result of the frustrating day, I was a bit peeved by the end of yesterday.

It wasn't just that I felt the day had been a bit of a waste of my time, but also by the time I got to the end of it I was out of time and inclination to go for the run that I had on my program. That certainly didn't help how I was feeling.

A new day though, and today things are looking a little rosier. My plan today is to catch up the run tonight (when I should have plenty of time), this, combined with what ended up being a nice solid swim this morning, has got me feeling a little happier.

The swim this morning was made up of 100s, heaps of them. Well about 20 to be precise, but I think that is enough to be considered more than a few. It was one of those sessions where you get a little reminder of the fact that you have improved. Sometimes, in the world of 1% gains, it is very easy to lose sight of the improvements you have made, so it is nice when you have a session that points it out to you. I started swimming with Swim Smooth a bit over a year ago now, and I can safely say that when I started I would not have been able to do this morning's session. Not that it was particularly tough, not overall, it just had a couple of nasty bits that would have derailed me previously.

The session was made up of 5 lots of 4 x 100m. Unusually for one of our sessions, the turn around time for each of these sets got slower the further we went. However, the idea of that extra rest meant that you were supposed to go quicker the further you went. On top of that, the first two sets were done on what you could term, 'tight turn arounds'. The idea being that for the first set you only got a few seconds rest between the 100s. It was a deceptively solid set, which you were feeling by the end.

I got to the end of the session still feeling solid, which, combined with the swim I had on Wednesday, is making me feel a whole bunch happier about swimming.

So maybe the world isn't such a bad place after all.