Aborted swim at South Sh!tty pool

SWIM 16 minutes and ... 750yards?
RUN 58 mins and 6 miles, treadmilled

What a day. The only thing that seemed to go good for me was the run. And even that sucked as I did it on a treadmill.

My swimming has really fallen off. For all the spring and summer up to CDA I was logging the yardage above and beyond expectations. I wasn't necessarily getting faster, but the endurance, comfort, and confidence were there. In the end, my CDA swim was cold but I never tired. So, while still slow, I succeeded in improving that aspect.

Then *BAM*. It comes to a stop. The motivation to even get to the pool died. Once I get to the pool, I'm OK. It's just that I'm not getting to the pool. Besides, I'd rather ride and run than do laps.

My schedule swims are M, W, F, with one of those either being a day off or an easy swim day. Come Monday morning lately, I'm too tired and I take a rest day. Come Weds and Fri and I just want to sleep in, so I do. It's not helping any that DH is leaving the house late too. It just kills my motivation to wake up and not do it right away. I need to just get out the door and git'er done. But I don't.

My GTD challenge hit 100 miles on July 11th and as of today is only 107.59. Only 7.6 miles since CDA! OK, sure, it's a rest period. The progress indicator showed I was 10+ miles behind my 200 miles in 2012 goal. No way that would happen. So I re-adjusted to 150 miles, figuring that come Redman I wouldn't be near a pool again. So now my goal pace is "88.36 miles required as of today" and only 42 miles to go. That just didn't seem right either...but I left it, thinking maybe I'd go back later to split the difference and reset it to 175 miles.

Boring day at work sitting at my desk...so I left early. Brief delay as I swung by BRR to buy some Nuuns and register for the 30K Skippo (I wasn't going to do it, but I fell prey to the excitement!). Got to the YMCA, got dressed to swim, and realized I forgot my running clothes in the truck. I knew that if I didn't run right after the swim, I might not do it. It was damned hot out and had me thinking I'd treadmill to recover for Thursday. So out to the truck. A delay. I get to the deck and the first 3 lanes are FULL of kids, there had to be a 100 of them. Lane 4 had 2 elderly "lap" swimmers moving very slowly. Lane 5 along the wall had the water aerobic elderlies hanging on the wall. I asked the lifeguard which lane, and she whistled for lane 5 to empty--she kicked out the old people! OK it's what I needed but not really what I wanted. I felt bad! They took their time leaving, delays.

Finally I'm in my lane with another guy doing laps with me. My plan was a 3300 with 6x300 sets descending. I wasn't excited about it, but I knew that once I got rolling I'd feel better. While doing the WU, I realized why the GTD challenge seemed too easy at 42 miles to go--I needed to swim those 42 miles before Redman!! So I'm not resetting it to 175!

Right at the end of the first phase of the WU during a turn I see something else in my lane. I push off, and sighted a big woman walking in my lane....back and forth...I swim towards her and realize she's "swimming" towards me. More of a doggie paddle/walk swim...WTH?! My lane mate and I hit the wall and watch to see what happens. She's at the other wall. The lifeguards start explaining "circle swim" to her, but it didn't seem to be going anywhere. It seemed for a few mins that we were going to reverse circle swim, that's new to me! My lane mate is frustrated, saying his swim was never meant to be.

I pushed off to swim to the other and end set an example. I hit the wall...and she was gone to the rec area. Back to "sides". A few more laps, then whistles all around. My first thought was that one of the kids was in trouble. Nope. But it did have to do with the kids. One of them "left an item" that had to be picked out with a net. The pool was closed for 45 mins.

My lane mate was right in the end, the swim wasn't meant to be.

So I left for the treadmill, figuring I might come back later. Instead of the 4 easy miles on the plan, I did 6 at about a 9:30 pace. My mind was wandering, unfocused, and enjoying it. I thought about sweet potato recovery bars...I thought about not licking my lips after the swim...I thought about the weekend's training. Boredom! But Done!