Lessons learned

I made some bad choices today.  After feeling incredible in the pool the last few days, I ran myself down with 1/2 my normal sleep along with lots of work and traveling.  Although I have no problem admitting that age has negatively affected an ability of mine, I don't know of an age that I could have accomplished what I did over the last 48 hours and swim well.  In hindsight I should have bowed out of this meet.  I was very committed to swim this meet since it was in my favorite pool and happened to land on a great time in my taper schedule.  I set myself up for failure with no rest and some manual labor the day before.  Since U of M lacks a scale, it was nice to get a weight checkup on EMU's digital scale.  I'm 166.5 lbs.  Among the lightest weights I've been as an adult.  I've gotten some positive comments from some of the CW team that I look more muscular.  I actually haven't noticed a difference in my physique yet, however it's only been 2 months and I missed the majority of the weights session the rest of the team participated in.  If there is anything positive about today, it looks like I tagged the State record in the 50 back.  Back to sleep.