More Swimming

Day 22
ibuprofen: 400mg
31 days until triathlon

Today was the longest-yet swim (though there is much more to come), and I thought it was time to update the internal dialog as I am swimming:

OK, you can do this! Deep breath, stroke stroke stroke stroke, roll over to breathe, oh yeah kick....not too deep...there the surface is, keep kicking stroke stroke, roll over, see it's sort of working, breathe....oooh look at the pretty designs on the bottom of the pool from the waves....breathe, keep moving, almost there.....

So that's about one length of the pool. I personally thought it was a great moment when I started noticing the patterns on the bottom of the pool instead of freaking out about being able to breathe. Swimming is still the hardest part for me, and I seriously doubt I will be able to do a crawl stroke for much of the race, but I'm doing so much better.

I am really trying to look at each day, each training, each small victory and build on it. We spend so much time feeling like we have failed. It's hard to combat that in the mind and heart, but I'm making a conscious (Lola, did I spell that right?) effort to remember those victories and let them pile up into a great big stash of energy in my spirit.