Second Week of Training!

This week was our second week of training. I biked to work on Monday, something I plan to do every Monday, but didn't make it home because of storms. Matt and I were on our way to a Memorial Day barbeque, so instead of Matt riding to meet me at the zoo on HIS bike as originally planned, he ended up driving and we put the bike on the bike rack.

I had to miss group swim this week because I'm in the process of getting scuba certified, and the class meets Tuesday and Wednesday for the next three weeks, but Matt went. He ended up getting a $10 donation from an anonymous club member at the pool!

I went swimming at Westmont High School last night to make up for no Wednesday swim. I did 26 laps and found that sidestroke is WAAAAAY easier for me than freestyle. I can do four full laps of sidestroke before getting the least bit tired, whereas with freestyle, I can go almost a full lap. ALMOST. I start having to lift my head up about halfway back because I just can't breathe. I guess swimming is not for people with asthma. I did time my swims, and one lap of sidestroke is only 7 seconds slower than one lap of freestyle, so heck with the freestyle - I'm doing sidestroke as much as possible!

Of course, that won't fly at group swim. Grrrrrrrr.

Today we got several donations. I think people felt sorry for me because I hate swimming so much. But thank you to Stacy, Pam, and Mike, because it really cheered me up. I was getting really down on myself with this whole not finishing the marathon, then struggling so much with swimming, and then having only ONE donation after two weeks of fund raising. And chlorine is SO GROSS. So those donations really did make a difference.

Tonight Matt and I are going to attempt to swim at the Westmont HS open swim. The guard last night said that they usually have one lane out for lap swims, so we'll see. It would be nice to get in another swim this week, since I'm supposed to be doing two per week. Of course, we were in the pool for scuba on Wednesday, so really this will be the third time this week I'll be in the pool. I've been in the pool more times in the last two weeks than I swam at all last summer, Florida included!