OMG Friday Swim!

SWIM 62 mins and 60 laps--3000y aka 1.7 miles!
COMMUTE 10 miles

I had to do the math on that a couple of times before I believed it. 3000-freaking-yards?! (I just double checked again).

More often than not when I miss the morning swim I fail to make up for it in the afternoon. I really don't like swimming all that much so it's easy to skip. But my race training plan and my to do list have a 1000y TT and a race rehearsal effort on them so that's been on my brain.

So when I missed the morning, rode to work (meaning I had to bring gear on the commute), and had to put up with 90+F temps to get there, it's impressive that I made it to the pool.

I had not clear plan of what to do once there. I had a few of my swim cards (I'm still stuck in the 2000-2999 yellow cards, BTW) but nothing exciting. One plan had 600's, I picked it. But once at the deck, the WU of kicks and drills didn't sound fun, and I didn't have fins with me. So I just jumped in an started. Somewhere in those 1st 6 laps, I decided to alternate 300y swim with 300y pull.

Then somewhere in those alternations I kept ping-pong'ing my plans:
"I should do the 1000y TT!"
"Can't--you're using a pull buoy. It won't count"
"I should do the race rehearsal!"
"Again--you can't."
"This could be my Postal Swim for 2013"
"Um....except it wouldn't count!!"
"What if I just swam as far as I can in 45 mins?"
"Slacker. You feel great. Go for 60!"
"Yeah! I do feel GREAT!" 60 it is"
"See, you're not even breathing hard. Why do you keep pulling from the yellow card stack"
"OMG you're right! I should do a 5K OWS someday!"