A Killer Compliment

Good morning. As I struggle through the professional portion of my day, I am recalling fondly the events of this morning. First off, it was a celebratory swimming session today. I have resolved to stay at 1400 yards or greater from here on out with swimming. I spoke to Trish about this. I don't want to hit a plateau with swimming. Right now it is really tough to be swimming. I have a lot of demands on my time and it's tough to get up at 5:30, in the winter, when it's below freezing and go swim in the dark. I want to continue to be challenged as I first was when I started this whole swimming gig. If I'm challenged, then I'm not bored, and not losing steam and motivation in those cold dark mornings. Anyways, I talked to Trish, and we're going to start working more on endurance and getting in a lot of yardage in preparation for my triathlon. Today's test was a test of endurance and pacing myself. The challenge was to swim 400 yards continuously, allowing 4 "bonus" rests of 20 seconds anywhere I felt I needed it. I ended up pacing myself very nicely, although initially it felt slow, and was able to finish the 400 and use only 3 of the bonus rests, so that was pretty awesome. We're going to keep working on it next week and get me to a 500 (continuous) and maybe an 800 (continuous) by March.

Afterwards, I was warming up in the hot tub and decided to make small talk with a guy I see every day at the gym, on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the hot tub. He's kindof a big guy, in the same way I'm a big girl, and is always working out. We talked about what we're doing and what we've accomplished at this point. And that's when he delivered the killer compliment. He said that whatever I'm doing must be working because I "move like a fit person". Well, that was enough to make my morning. So thanks again to Mike, and I hope you have a great day too.

So on that note, give compliments. You might just make someone's day. :o)