Marianne's Trainer Rant.

Brenda is the meanest trainer in the world...BUT I am very thankful for her! :)  She came and spent the night last night because she TOLD me (notice I didn't say ask) that I would wake up at 5:30, pick Mom up at 6:00 and go swim at the Y for a half hour while she kept Hannah.  I have to say I was a little bit disgusted because I was super tired, and I don't even have a lap swim swimsuit right now but Michael woke me up as he left and I actually dragged myself out the door, picked up Mom, and we were at the Y at 6:30.  It has been a LONG time since I have actually done lap swim- way TOO long.  I told Brenda that I wouldn't be able to even swim a 100 (ha!) but she said well just do a 500 the first time and work up from there.  I was pretty proud of Mom and I for doing over double what she said we should start with!!! The embarrasing part though? Ya, 1100 yards use to not even be a complete warm up- ugh! Miss those days.  My arms felt very weak after we were done, and that was only for 30 minutes- in high school we had practice for 2 hours and then in college, I would work out on the elliptical while studying for 30min-1 hr and then after finishing the elliptical, I would spend 2-2.5 hours in the pool swimming laps- oh man, those were the days- I can barely last 30 minutes with any sort of speed or form or technique left by the end- UGH!  Hope to be able to work back up to what I use to be able to do. As miserable as it seemed it was going to be this morning- we actually swam 1,100 yards and I felt soooo good after we were done.
So I guess I have to say- Thank you for pushing me, Brendee! :)