I did it. I was really nervous, but I made it to the swim workout. I was a bit worried because I'm VERY slow. Of course, when I got there, there was a notice that the time had changed from 7 to 7:30. There were a bunch of kids in the pool so I hung out and texted with a friend since I was really nervous.
Finally another guy showed up and I was able to ask a few questions - enough to find out which lane was the slow one.
It turned out that the guy coaching the kids was the same guy for the masters. I thought that it was odd that he didn't introduce himself or ask me any questions. He just put up a workout on a white board and set us off. I was extremely grateful that I had a lane to myself. I was really worried about slowing someone else down.
This is a lot like swim workouts from when I was a kid. I about fell over when he said that there was a 1600 IM set. He had it set up that you would do the fly, back, or breast strokes for 100 yards and then do 100 freestyle. I figured I would just swim free style. At the end of 25 yards, I got a wild hair and decided to see if I could even do the fly for 25 yards. It wasn't pretty, but I did it! Twice! I did some back and breast stroke laps as well. I don't think they were pretty either. I pretty much stuck to free style. I made if for over 45 minutes!
The one oops of the evening was I took off my ActiveLink and shook it to see how I had done on my activity for the day - and it fell into the splash area at the side of the pool. I'm thinking it's gone forever. I'll check with them tomorrow, but I'll probably order another one. Neither the Fitbit or the Jawbone UP can be used for swimming.
I'm not sure if I'll like the coach, but it felt really good to be in the pool, so I think I'll sign up and keep it up at least three days a week.
I was also proud of myself in that I was really hungry afterwards and I really didn't want to wait for some chicken to cook so I just had an artichoke and some string cheese. Probably not the dinner of champions, but I did well with my meals and tracking today so I'm not going to knock it.
More tomorrow!
xxoo
Deb
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