MILEstone

Things are so busy at work I didn't get a chance to write about this first time event for me that happened at the pool yesterday morning. I had a planned breakfast before work yesterday so I figured I'd go for a long swim before in order to be nice and hungry.

I decided to try for an actual "mile" in the pool. It's basically 70 laps or 17 100s with an extra 50 tacked on at the end. I got up and went to the pool. The first 300 or so is always a pain in the ass. I swear I go faster at the beginning because my body is so cold I'm shivering down the entire length of the pool. I tried my best to keep good form as I did my best to keep track of each 100. I took splits so I could see where I was at post swim.

As I was counting 13, I knew I had it in the bag. I could tell that I had seemed to slow down so I really did my best to focus on good form as my arms were getting tired. I finished the mile in a lightening slow time of 37:40. Ugh....oh well I still have 10 months before Canada as I hope to get to about 34 minutes. I was pretty tired once I finished. It was like a body fatigue and of course my arms were crazy sore. I had this pain in my left triceps that made it difficult to lift my arm.

I only have to be able to do 1.4 more miles after that. I'll just keep slowly building up to it.

Work has been so crazy that I skipped my pool workout this morning. I figured it was okay to take an extra day off from swimming this week.

Well I got get to it here at work...