My schedule was thrown off this week because of Girls on the Run. The big run was the day I would have gone swimming, and I took the next day off to recuperate.  Even so, today was tiring.

My suit is also tired. About two months ago, I bought a new swim suit.  It was a Speedo, so I was excited to have a serious suit.  There was an immediate problem:  it has a plunging neckline, not really great for working out.  It looked good on me though, so I used it.  Now it has a different problem:  it’s breaking down, becoming threadbare in areas.  This happens to all swim suits, the more you use them.  But there’s one suit I bought 4 years ago that’s still holding together just fine.  So I retired the newer suit and brought out the old one.  Go figure!

The “I’m swimming!” glow was still on when I swam the first 300.  Then it was time for my first IM.  It came in at 2:47.02, which by itself is pretty decent, but it’s 3 seconds slower than my slowest time on Tuesday.  I did some more laps, too tired to really work on flip turns and did my second IM in the 800-900 yard set.  This was even slower:  2:50.76, even though I felt like I was flying.

In my 1200th set, I tried to swim 100 free without stopping.  I was panting and disappointed with myself after the first 50.  I went ahead and finished that set, followed by 100 back.  I did flip turns when I could manage.  I banged my heel on the edge of the pool doing a flip turn. It stung, but I kept going.

My total yardage was 1700, which is just 100 shy of a mile.  I intend to stay there a while once I achieve it.