As I wrote yesterday, I have been struggling to fully recover from pushing hard at Ironman Chattanooga.  Even though I am still hurting, I decided that today was the day, to start doing something in terms of working out.

With my legs feeling bad, the obvious choice was to head to the pool.  I figured that I could easily swim without further impacting my legs.  All I needed to do, was swim with a pull buoy.  So that is what I did.

Mid-afternoon, after getting my flu shot, I headed to LA Fitness.  Luckily the pool was quiet and I had a lane to myself.  I chose to do a simple swim workout.  I did a 4 x 500 swim with the pull buoy.  Swimming was fine.  Turning around at the end of each lap however, was tough with my sore legs.

I swam quite well and got into a rhythm. This resulted in negative splitting the workout.  I have worked hard on my swim this year, and I finally feel like I am seeing progress from all that effort.  

Even if I am still hurting in the morning, I have decided that tomorrow, I will do an easy spin on my bike trainer.  Movement is good and I find that my legs hurt the most, right after sitting still for a while. I am slowly getting there.