As I mentioned in my Under Armour What’s Beautiful Challenge vlog earlier this week, Bo and I have made it our goal to work out together each day on our trip. While yesterday was a rest day for me, this morning we spent 45 minutes together bright and early. We were in bed last night by 10:30 and therefore woke up at 6:30 in order to reset our body clocks and get started early!
We checked out the hotel gym before decided to head out to the pool for a swim workout. 
We opted to swim in the outdoor pool as it is 34 meters and heated to a warm 80 degrees. The views of the big ships coming down the river and the sunrise was a perfect way to motivate me to choose swimming as a workout. For those of you who have read my blog for a while you know I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve swam laps in the past year. Bo, however, is a very strong swimmer who often swims 1-2 miles two to three times a week.
Bo put together a workout for me ahead of time keeping in mind that I needed to finish the workout feeling challenged but not defeated.
My workout: 100 meter warm-up, 3×300 meter freestyle with short break in between each 300 meter set
His workout: 100 meter warm-up, 3×500 meter freestyle with short break in between each 500 meter set.
Overall, it was a perfect morning workout and I am excited to spend at least half of my vacation workouts in a pool. Bo promises I’ll feel stronger as soon as tomorrow’s swim!
Are you a swimmer? If yes, what is your stroke of choice?
Swimming is my first love! You WILL feel stronger! It usually takes me 20 minutes to do 12-14 (freestyle) laps in a 50 meter pool at the beginning of summer. By the end of the summer I’m up to 25-30 laps easily in 20 minutes. Swimming is incredible and made my summer training so much better! Hill work wasn’t so tough because of the strength I gained through swimming 🙂
I love swimming! I swam competitively for 10 years and I loved it! It’s the best total body/low impact workout. When I stress fractured my heel running last fall, swimming allowed me to keep up my endurance and cardio. I’m even swimming in a race this summer with some co-workers across Lake Tahoe (sans wetsuit – I’m freezing just thinking about it!) Butterfly was always my stroke but these days I stick to freestyle when I hit the Equinox pool in SF!
Enjoy your vacation!
Are you doing the Donner Lake swim??
My husband is doing it too! He’s done it once before and I’ll be there to watch. I could never swim it because A) I’m not that strong of a swimmer and 2) That water is daaaamn cold!
Good for you! 🙂
I have no idea what Donner Lake swim is but good luck to your husband! We are just here touring!!