I just made it over the hump in the great barrier reef swim. I'm now swimming about 2 miles a day which means that if I keep that pace I should be done with this in about 9 days of swimming, which is about three weeks. Maybe a little less if I pick up a mile here or there during the week or the weekend. But the weekends have been horrible.
The pool was almost empty today which really slowed me down. I notice that I keep pace a lot better when I have someone to chase, or at least, someone to compete against, even if they don't know that they are competing against me. I started out pretty quick, with laps around 50 seconds. But then I slowed to just over a minute.
Around lap 60 another guy entered the fast lane, and that was good. He was fresh and relatively fast. I was determined not to get passed by him, and that drove my times back down into the 55 second range for the last few laps. It was nice to be able to finish so strong. When I did two miles yesterday I grunted through the last few laps.
A friend of mine said that when he was swimming a lot he really wanted to get into a 50 meter pool because at 25 meters he felt like he was "just getting started". I'm starting to understand what he means. I get across the pool in about eight long strokes, excluding the kick off from the side. And it's only in the middle where I get the nice glide effect. It would be nice to get that for longer periods of time, and I think a 50m pool would do that.
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