Phew!

I made it through the long swim this morning...2200 yards. My triceps are really sore but my shoulders feel fine. This is positive and maybe means I'm doing something right with my stroke. My half-iron swim time was about 40:16 which puts me on track for a 80 minute iron time. The last 200 yards wasn't too bad. I slowed down a bit but not much. I'm thinking I could've went probably another 1000 yards but not sure if I could've went the entire way at that pace.

My form is coming along and definitely helping my time. I tried to stay comfortable throughout the swim. It worked pretty well as I got into a nice rhythm. Of course since I'm such a swim novice, that at each wall turn my rhythm would get all screwed up. I'm hoping that the "open water" will help with that.

The only problem that I'm worried about is nutrition. I feel totally hungry coming out of the pool just after a half. I'll need to start trying to figure out what to eat before race.

I feel that I'm back to where I was before the pneumothorax as today's time was 30 seconds faster than my December 2200 yard time. I did go with tri-shorts which have way less drag than my normal beach swim trunks that I've been wearing. This bodes well for getting into the full wetsuit for some bonus speed.

5 months 17 days...