Two Laps Around Swaggartland (almost)

Swim/run today. I continue to feel inept at swimming. My lungs don't really feel like they're improving and I have to take more breaks between laps than almost everyone else. Even if I breaststroke it the whole way, I lose enough oxygen to make me gasp for breath and accidentally swallow water. Oh well. I know I can at least make it without quitting.

Mandy told me (during one of my side breaks) that I wasn't keeping my arm by my ear while taking breaths (in freestyle). I did another few laps keeping that in mind. There were small moments of feeling relaxed and at one with the water and a lot of longer moments of feeling like a sinking horse struggling to stay afloat enough to roll over and breathe. There's some kind of cardio hump I have yet to get over. Maybe it'll happen in the next few weeks. I have yet to try the swim clinics (because they're at 5:30 in the morning).

I jogged almost the whole 1.5 miles (plus ramp and stairs). I walked the top of the ramp both times and walked a little bit after the stairs the first round. But my running is improving for sure. Mandy (from her post atop the stairs) told me on round one that my swim was looking A LOT better since day one. I must have looked frustrated today. I told her thank you (while jogging up the stairs). On round two she asked if I'd jogged the whole thing and I said "almost," and she said "Where was the walk?" and I said "just at the top of the ramp" and she said "good job" in an enthusiastic tone. She's such an attentive teacher.

G is going to show me her 12 mile bike route and then when she gets back from vacation, we're going to run the LSU course together. It feels like it's getting closer. I need, like, four more months.