"Day off"

Just a quick post today, I am looking after the gremlins (my children) so anytime spent at the keyboard rather than with them is time that they are potentially lighting something on fire.

I am looking after the kids today because today is my rostered day off at work, which means I get to have a guilt free day off. Not exactly a day off though, as anyone who has looked after children for a day can attest to.

Training today has been made up of the Friday morning swim session at Swim Smooth. A bit of a flat session actually. Considering that swimming on Wednesday felt pretty okay, the session this morning was a bit of a surprise. Well perhaps just a bit of a surprise to me, sometimes you get the feeling that coaches understand what is going on with yourself better than you do.
 Daryl read my blog post from yesterday and sent me an e-mail suggesting that I have yesterday afternoon off and consider having today off training. I knew that I had today off work and so I said that I was happy to have the afternoon off, but was keen to swim this morning, to which Daryl agreed. I wanted to get down to the pool this morning because whilst swimming has been feeling okay recently, it has been a bit disjointed and so I wanted to keep up some consistency this week.

However, once I was in the pool I was surprised that I just felt flat. Not terrible, just no edge. I got through the session okay, but it was a 85% session, rather than a 100% session. But that is about all I had.

Now I suspect when Daryl reads this he will nod sagely to himself and possibly say 'I told you so'.

Strange really because what I wrote in the blog yesterday wasn't supposed to be that much of a 'woe is me' type post. It was at least a little tongue in cheek after a very frustrating morning. But I guess when those sorts of things are starting to happen, and get vented, it can be symptomatic of an underlying issue. I suspect this is possibly what Daryl saw. It is a good reminder that I should be on the look out for those signs in myself.

Now I better go, the gremlins are very quiet in the living room.

A little too quiet...