Hopeful Loser

February 19, 2008

I’m not exactly one of them

Well Molly, I’m not exactly one of them. Not yet anyway. Far from it actually. And Greta, I’m not sure I can even swim.

Last night I went swimming for the first time in a really long time. I can’t remember the last time I actually took a real stroke rather than just splashed playfully and lazily in a pool or the Jersey surf.

It went OK. I really enjoyed the company (two moms of my daughter’s friends) and I actually had a lot of fun. But….. I sucked! One of my friends isn’t doing the triathlon but she is training us because she was nearly an Olympic swimmer at one point. That was really helpful because you would have thought that I never swam before and she gave me a lot of tips. I forgot how strenuous swimming could be. I was sucking wind in no time. I never kept track of how many laps we did but we swam solidly for an hour. I had to alter my strokes from regular to side stroke and sometimes breath stroke but I kept on moving. I even used a kickboard for a bit. It was awesome, but I sucked.

I am totally worried, but more motivated than ever. I’ve got to hustle and thank goodness we have slightly over six months to train.

Posted by hopeful @ February 19, 2008 11:23 PM

Comments

I hear triathlons are terribly addicting....I suppose there are about a billion other things that are worse than getting addicted to swimming/running/biking.

You should be wonderfully proud of yourself. I think it's awesome.

Posted by: Molly at February 20, 2008 10:59 PM

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