Swwwwimming!

Last night I went to the pool at Scott's work for the first time. It was fun, I got all giddy and excited being back in the humid, chlorinated arena. I was smiling a lot, and people probably thought I was a little crazy. Swimming has been very touch and go for me since quitting in college, it's always depressing bc I can't help but think how we used to swim 4000 yards a day, 5 days a week or whatever. And then I swim like 1500 and I'm like, I'm old. And then the depression comes. But anyway, I'm trying to approach it differently now, like not think about what I'm doing in respect to what I used to do? Maybe it's far enough in my past now it doesn't seem like a good comparison.

So last night, I swam for about 15 min until they had to clear the pool for thunder. (sigh) I know the drill, but c'mon!

But I got my butt back there today, and I must say that today, I kicked ass at swimming. I felt great. I took breaks when I needed to keep from overdoing it. But I nailed it. I also created kind of a fun and interesting workout which I'm going to post so I can do it again sometime:

Swimming workout 1
Total: 2150 yds
250 yd warm up
10 x 100 - broken (swim 75, rest 10 sec swim 25, rest 20.) Here's the crackhead part - I rotated btwn free, backstroke and breaststroke to keep it fun.
100 easy
300 kick (w/ a board)
6x 50 (with the first 25 sprint, and second 25 recovery.) I alternated back and free.
200 warm down

I can't believe it - but I swam for about an hour. I truly had a blast too.