I the day off from work. I thought if I went to the swimming pool in the middle of the day, it would not be very busy. But the pool was packed when I got there. There was one empty lane, so I headed for it. Just before I got, some little 9 year old got there and was about ready to jump in. Grrrr. Fortunatly his mom grabbed him and lead him to another lane. So I grabbed the lane. My plan was to swim long and easy, half freestyle, half backstroke. I swam, and people came and went. The lifeguards changed shifts, and I saw each a couple times. As more lanes freed up, I moved to an end lane. For some reason, there were lots of little kids there. Annoyingly, some of them wanted to play in the lap pool instead of the kiddie pool. So they were swimming around with their foam noodles. And some of the little kids were swimming in and out of my lane. I didn’t mind this while I was at the other end of the pool. But I did yell at a couple of little kids to get out of my lane, and they did. I didn’t particularly want to hit them as I was swimming backstroke.
I swam a total of 85 laps in 1:53 which is about 2.4 mile of the distance of the swim in an Ironman triathlon. This is the longest farthest I have swam. But not I know I can do it.
My shoulders are a little sore and tired, but overall, I feel good. I wolfed a Subway footlong sub afterwards.

Posted by Rob in Swimming on November 26th, 2008 |