2600 yards? Oops, nope it was 2700.

SWIM 1 hour 2700 yards
BIKE COMMUTE 9.4 miles

I've been having head cold symptoms that lingered but never really bloomed into a full-fledged cold, until maybe last night. I kept waking up every 90 mins or so, and could only sleep on my back for fear that schtuff would just run out my nose. You know it's annoying me when I actually make the effort to look for cold medicine, which I happily found at 1:37am. Didn't expect to find it. Wonder how old it is...? (Just checked, expired in 2016. But it still works!)

So when this was all going on I told myself that I don't have to swim the full hour, I can swim what I feel like doing, considering the poor sleep and sickness. But the alarm chimed at 5am and I got up and rolling right away. So off to the pool, feeling good.

My plan was from the triathlete swim book, endurance #2 for 2600 yards:
WU 6x75
MS 2x200 & 100; 2x200 & 100; 2x300 & 100
CD 6x75

I had my little note card all filled out and I didn't do the math before starting. Foreshadowing...

I did the MS as 200 swim, 100 fins, 200 pull, 100 fins. I actually took the time to rest (now that I better know how to pause my Garmin for swimming). And I needed the rest. My swim got sloppy as I got tired. I hit the 30 min mark and felt good enough to continue. 45 min mark the same. 60 was within reach.

The only change I made was at the CD, I did 250 instead. 200 pull CD pace and 50 kickboard to get an even number.

The watch read 2700 yards, and I figured it was somehow due to my stopping it. Maybe when I stop the watch before it counts the turn-around? I think sometimes too I forget how many laps I did and do an extra? Over brekkie I looked this over and found that the it was supposed to be 2x200, NOT 2x200 & 100. So the 100's were extra. No worries, I like finning :)

At the end of my session in the adjacent lane was a woman I have been seeing at the pool for years. She's the one who likes to talk to Anton. She asked what I was training for, said nothing yet as I'm post surgery, she's 70 yo and has had 2 knee and 1 hip replacement, chat chat etc. Then she says her husband, aged 71, crashed on the bike on March 3rd. Ended up with a displaced collarbone fracture and a bunch of broken ribs. What was he out doing this morning? Biking!! Gawd I love this stuff.

I used up my bottle of Twister Peppermint this morning. It's my post-swim reward, my fave lotion. Of course I have more. But this is like a progress benchmark. How many lotion bottles will I use this year?

So even with a head cold I'm feeling great, my bike commute was smooth sailing. Combined with yesterday's run I've got this YAY feeling going and I'm calling up race pages. I've already looked at www.Run100s.com and found two new midwest 100's - Kentucky and Iowa - both around birthday time. And yes I checked, my bday in 2019 is on a Friday, and in 2020 on a SUNDAY. You can most certainly bet there WILL BE A RACE THAT DAY. And thusly the 2020 goals tag is created. LOL!!!