It's the flag of Portugual

 SWIM 700 yards in doesn't matter

COMMUTE 10 miles

Figured out the flag, the one I saw at the pool last week that I didn't recognize.  Portugal. And as the angry red squiggly line just informed me, I can't spell it either. It's Portugal, not Portugual. Fuck it, I'm leaving my title as is. 

Next to it, I've just figured out, is the Kenyan flag. Maybe by mid-fall I'll have the whole pool area identified.  

Up for a pool rez at 6am this time, earlier than last weeks 7am, so I could get home and walk. LA has the dog this week, so between trying to keep habit and steps and avoid the lonelies I planned a BP to Lemp walk. 

I searched for a training plan before leaving work yesterday, and randomed across a Speedo beginner plan called Make1KWet (I'm omitting the stupid hashtag) cuz I figured Speedo might have some different workouts. But they want me to buy gear (maybe I should anyway, after it was stolen in 2018 I never repopulated my gear bag) and the plan seems a bit long. Says here 3 months to swim 1k? Doesn't that seem a bit long, considering the first workout has 600 total yards? Lemme look...."our aim is for you to swim a 1K comfortably in the time  it takes you to run 5K or cycle 10K; a 3 month training programme" AH HA!!  It's a programme, not a program. That's why. No, but really, it ends with a 1K time trial.

Besides, who am I to mock a 600 y set when I'm blown out by 450 yards? Yup. That's me. I've never been a great swimmer and now I'm just awful. I can feel my left arm falling through the water, my neck craning awkwardly to breath, and my feet sinking. I need more time with drills right now, and less time with swim. 

But for now, it was WU 100, then 8x25 2x75 4x50 CD 50 mostly moderate and steady. I put in an extra 100 thinking I could, but my form was shot so I quit. 

For the record, I did a 25 in 28-29 seconds and a 50 in 1:03. Not hurried, just swimming. Or should I say, "swimming"

It's only a twice-a-week plan, I think I need more. I've got the SlowTwitch Guppy plan in my swim gear. Maybe add that in.

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Got home last night and fell in to an old habit. Some habits I keep, some I try to break. This one just won't die. It wasn't much, but it's just the idea of it.