14:45 for the 400!

Rumor had it from the Monday swimmers that we would be 'timed' for the 400 meter swim this week - unlike most rumors, this one turned out to be true! One of the local ladies skipped our first session - the ever popular spin bikes - so as not to be worn out before the timing - but the rest of us had what we thought was the most demanding bike workout yet! So it was with somewhat wobbly legs that we switched to our swim gear!

After our usual 'easy' 100 meter warm up swim (and gracious that water felt good!) our worst fears were confirmed - indeed it was timing time. As the indoor pool is 25 meters (one way), that meant 8 round trips to get to the 400 meter mark. Since we are mostly 2 to a lane, lead swimmer took off and 5 second later second swimmer took out - surprisingly there were no instances of bumping into each other when we passed along the way!

I am not fully convinced that the lady who was in the lane with me (lead swimmer - so she did the counting) got us for 8 lanes - although I'm not disputing it! While I was the last in our swimming group at 14:45, even if we only did 7 round trips instead of 8 that would still give a total time of under 20 minutes.

The reason for the timing at this point in the training is so that we have some idea of how we are doing and so that we can be placed in the appropriate swimming order for the mini-tri that will be in about 10 days - we'll put all the pieces together but with shorter distances than the actual event!

We also got a draft of the story to go in the Vincennes paper to promote the event / encourage other registrants - amazing what a great job the Steering Committee PR person did with the information we had provided!