When I heard the Y pools would be closed for a week before the fall session, I became temporarily insane. I reacted as though they’d be closed forever, taking the little children to open swim right before bed-time the day before the pools closed.

It was just a week. Why was I tripping? I was irrational, and I know that partly had to do with the fact that I’d been out of the pool for a month, and just when I found out I could get back in the water, the pool was going to be closed. It might as well been another month, for all my raging emotions.

Then it clicked for me that, duh, it was only closed a week, when I learned that my daughter had an observation in the pool yesterday. I planned to swim the next morning.

I was in the pool at 7:08 this morning–a little late for me, but it worked out ok.

The fatigue factor was pretty high, since I’m still not all the way back up to my former stamina. I hate how fast that breaks down. I thought I could handle 900 yards again today, so that was my goal.

I had to force myself to swim 50 frees. Ouch. But I felt like I could swim backstroke all day. In the end, I had swum 200 free, and 300 back. My shoulders were feeling it, too. I had also swum 275 breast. That stroke count included a 100 IM. My time, 2:48.76 was about 8 seconds faster than my last IM, so I was pleased. And even though I struggled with my freestyle, I only swam 100 total elementary back, my recovery stroke, so it was a good day in the pool.

I hope to return next week. We’ll see what my body says about that.