Swim break though today!

Well after a few weeks of efforts with a serious sinus infection in between, I finally was able to link together a number of laps and do >100 yards at a time in the pool :-). After a warm-up, I did a 200 yard swim which surprised the heck out of me, I rested for 3 minutes then did another 200 yarder that I had to stop only because I looked up for the wall and swallowed a ton of water! Water sure does force it way down the throat when you act like a whale scooping up plankton, lesson learned there! I recovered from this and then swam a 300 yarder! I could have done even more but I was just so happy to do this and I don’t want to over train since I’m new to this swim deal.

It sure is nice when all of a sudden the technique comes together and you just start gliding on the water effortlessly! I was excited when I felt this happening and had to make sure I didn't start going to fast. The sprint Tri is in 23 days, I want to get up to a continuous 600 yards in the pool then try an open water swim or two before the tri. The local club will be doing 3 open course practice runs that I can join up with.

I'm averaging about 2:20 per 100 yards on the swims today with having to turn at the walls. That works out to be about a 14 min 600 yarder, that sounds good to me when I punch in the numbers for what I expect to do on the bike, run and transitions.

Whoo hoo!

Don