Completed the 5 mile swim challenge today. Mercifully, this will be the last blog entry about me swimming for a while.
- 2 x 200
- 2 x 100
- 1 x 200
- 2 x 100
Total distance: 1,000 yards.
Total distance in the challenge: 9500 yards
Total distance required by the challenge: 8800 yards
So that just about does it.
The was a profound difference between this swim and my first swim on 8/1/2024. My stroke feels better, less labored. My heart is no longer screaming along at an alarming rate, and I no longer feel like I’m drowning. My flip-turns even few smoother. I can also feel strength returning in my upper body, and my core seems to be firming up as well.
Don’t worry. I’m still a fat old man. 9 swims isn’t going to change that.
But I guess I’d better keep going. Better than a dodgy lower back, anyway. I’m just not going to keep recording these swims is all. Recording your exercise on the internet is some kind of narcissism, I’ve always thought. A bit too inwardly focused. I’m not particularly up for it. I only recorded these because it was a challenge. But I figure I’ll drop a post on the exercise activity once a month or something, just to keep me honest.
In other words, on to other challenges.
C’ya!