I swam a mile!

I made it a goal to swim a mile before heading off the Hawaii. I reached that goal last night. After getting the kids fed and ready for their bath, Jeff took over and I headed to the pool. It took me 45 minutes to get ready because as usual I lost just about everything that I needed. And when I did find all my swim stuff and arrived at the pool, I forgot my key and had to go back home.

It was nice that the day had been so warm and the night was equally as nice. I jumped into the pool and did a few warm-up laps. Now I needed to do the 32-33 laps to complete the mile. Because I wanted to practice for Lavaman, I had to try and do continuous swim. This is a little tricky in a pool. After about 10 laps in the single lane and trying not to kick off the wall or stop between laps, I decided to snake the pool.

This meant I would swim down 1 lane and back up another lane. After a few laps of using two lanes I added a third lane. Once I snaked those lanes I would then come back. I think at most I did 6 laps without stopping or touching a wall.

Keeping track of the laps is tricky, especially because my mind wonders and when swimming I'm so focused on trying to breathe, keeping form, and generally not dying. I now keep change next to my stuff. Each lap gets a penny. So I had 2 dimes, 2 nickels, and 4 pennies to keep track of the number of laps I completed. This worked very well.

It took me about 1.5 hours to complete the mile. I didn't feel exhausted getting out of the pool which I felt was a good sign. I'm still a little worried about the race and pretty anxious about everything but I expect that is normal.

When I got home the kids were still awake and very excited to see me. Cameron asked me about my swim and told me she wanted to go next time.