BACK IN THE POOL
After two weeks of not being able to swim due to an infection in the road rash on my hip I was finally able to get back in the water the last two day...not sure if I should have but I needed to! I was starting to get a little nervous about the swim especially because it is the area I am least prepared for. So yesterday morning I took the wetsuit to the pool, quckly pulled it on and it was a disaster!! I swam about 200m and my arms were DEAD! After about 1000m I packed it in and headed home very dejected. This morning I went back to the pool and took my time getting my wetsuit on and discovered that was the difference...whew!!!
I made sure I got the wetsuit up as high asI could on the legs and crotch and then that my arms/shoulders were all the way in and I had no trouble. I banged out a few thousand meters without any trouble and at a nice comfortable pace (about 9 minutes/100m). I'm hoping to even average 9 1/2 minutes for the race. If all goes well this shouldn't be a problem.
It's amzazing what your mind can have you believe when you let your thoughts wander for a bit. I went from feeling good about everything to thinking the swim might be a little tougher than I thought to thinking I may DNF because I missed a few swim workouts this month!! While my swimming definately has suffered over the last month due to this road rash and a few other things if I DNF it won't be because of these missed swim workouts!!
12 Days to go!!!
Cheers
After two weeks of not being able to swim due to an infection in the road rash on my hip I was finally able to get back in the water the last two day...not sure if I should have but I needed to! I was starting to get a little nervous about the swim especially because it is the area I am least prepared for. So yesterday morning I took the wetsuit to the pool, quckly pulled it on and it was a disaster!! I swam about 200m and my arms were DEAD! After about 1000m I packed it in and headed home very dejected. This morning I went back to the pool and took my time getting my wetsuit on and discovered that was the difference...whew!!!
I made sure I got the wetsuit up as high asI could on the legs and crotch and then that my arms/shoulders were all the way in and I had no trouble. I banged out a few thousand meters without any trouble and at a nice comfortable pace (about 9 minutes/100m). I'm hoping to even average 9 1/2 minutes for the race. If all goes well this shouldn't be a problem.
It's amzazing what your mind can have you believe when you let your thoughts wander for a bit. I went from feeling good about everything to thinking the swim might be a little tougher than I thought to thinking I may DNF because I missed a few swim workouts this month!! While my swimming definately has suffered over the last month due to this road rash and a few other things if I DNF it won't be because of these missed swim workouts!!
12 Days to go!!!
Cheers
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