Wednesday, August 26, 2009

FIRST POOL DAY! I was so excited and even a little nervous going to the pool today. It’s been a couple years since I swam laps…so I wasn’t sure how it would be, but it was awesome! It felt so good to be back in the water. It was hard though! We ended up only doing it for 40 minutes and in the future we’re going to make sure we have a full hour. I kind of thought it would be a piece of cake to do 8 laps (200meters)…but it definitely wasn’t. We had to stop and take a short breather every 2 laps. We did 300m of swimming, and probably another 150-250m of just kicking with kick boards. It’s going to be more work than I thought, we need to focus on breathing and kicking drills, and also I need to teach Ben the breast stroke, since in open water you need to look up now and then to see where you’re going.