2000

I decided after taking two days off from swimming to see how things went for a long swim this morning. I just started and kept knocking off hundreds. I totally lost track and at one point tried to figure out what split I was on. You really can't read small watch text with goggles. I wasted a simple 8 seconds looking and decided just to do my best.

I used the big clock on the wall and just tried to swim past 30 minutes as I was cruising. I wanted to make sure I got a full mile in so I made extra sure. After it was all done I ended up with 2000 yards. My farthest swim to date. The other cool thing was I swam a 34:17 for the mile which is 3 minutes faster than time.

I could barely raise my arms though at the end. I just need to be able to set them on the aerobars and start the cruising on the bike. Overall I was just a little short of the official half ironman swim distance. I wish I would've kept better track because having a nice benchmark time for that distance would've been nice.

I might be able to find some more speed but it's just a matter of feeling comfortable once I get out of the water and not drowning.

Only 3 weeks til Xmas..