Wednesday, October 24, 2007

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...

3 comments:

  1. Nice work Alan. You have already come a long way in the pool. 37 minute mile, when less than 3 months ago you could not do 100 yards, thats progress.

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  2. well, this probably won't help your swim time much...but Emily found a place over by us that has a 12 egg omelette and some monstrous burger, so if you want to get ready for the now way in the future binge across America trip, there you go...

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  3. You are one hard workin mo fo! Keep after it man and be patient with yourself. Swimming apparently comes with time and training... and like you said... you've got 10 months to refine.

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