Ever get that feeling like you’re not really ready to swim, but it’s now or never?  That’s kind of where I am these days.  I got up around 3:45, but didn’t head out to the pool until just before 6.  I thought I’d have to shoot across town when I found the street in front of the Y closed, but it was just the street, not the Y.

It is definitely getting easier.  I am not struggling through that first set of freestyle.  My flip turns are getting more routine, although I did have a funky too close to the wall thing where I bumped my heel on the edge of the pool.  This was followed by a too far from the wall turn that had me inhaling chlorine through my nose and struggling to come up above water after the turn.

I didn’t want to be a wimp about it, but I stopped doing flip turns after that one.

My IM times are the big story:  My first IM time was 1:41.20–3 seconds faster than my previous best time!  My second IM time was very close to my old best time:  2:44.66.  That performance kept me motivated to finish my set at 1600, even though I was tired enough to want to stop at 1500.

Since I swam 100 more yards than last time, I not only reached my goal of swimming 500 free total yards.  I ended up swimming 525 both free and back.

My next goal is to swim 1700.  I’m not sure whether I’ll accomplish that this week; I’m running/walking in a girls on the Run 5k on Thursday, so it just depends on whether I feel up to swimming strenuously or not.