training

Last week I worked out 6 days. I've been doing better with my swimming, but I find it hard to swim when there are lots of people in the lanes. I'm constantly worrying that I'm going too slow, and so I speed up, but then I get tired really quickly. there are three double lanes at the pool. Their names are slow, medium (or intermediate?), and fast. Prior to today, I have only been swimming in the slow lane. It means I have to occasionally pass people, but hey, swimming in the slow lane definitely decreases the expectations people have of you. Today the slow lane was really full when I got there and there were fewer people in the medium lane, so I decided to take a chance. I'm really not sure what I was thinking.

Morning swimmers are pretty hard-core.

While there were maybe 2 swimmers in the medium lane who were slower than me, the rest of the swimmers definitely didn't understand why I was taking so many breaks. I much prefer swimming on the weekend, when the lanes are fairly empty (only 2 or 3 others to share the lane), and I can focus on technique rather than worrying about whether I am not following the proper swimming etiquette. I have only been swimming once after work, and I think it was less busy than the morning, but more busy than the weekend.

Anyway, I followed a workout Jodi sent me and did:
100 yd warm-up
300 yds of drills
200 yds steady swim (30 sec rest before next
200 yds steady swim
Then 4 x 25 yd sprints with 20 seconds rest in between and
finally a 100 yd cool-down.

It was great to have a plan instead of just going in there and doing some laps. I found it easier to keep track of things when I was counting them in groups rather than the number of laps.
All this to say, I'm enjoying swimming more than I thought, and I think I probably need to get over my social desirability bias and just swim the pace I want to swim.