20 Minutes Swimming and a Brick in the Evening

This morning I swam at the Y for 20 minutes. I'm grateful to be able to use the pool there this week, but it's hard to get used to the hot water. This evening I got to Sugar Land Memorial Park at 6:15pm for the newbie ride. Turned out I was the only newbie. I was chatting with Jannelle, who is training for the Half Ironman in New Orleans on April 5th, and discovered that my race swim should only take about 30 minutes. It's 1000 meters, which is 20 laps in the 50 meter pool. I'm very excited about this as I now have more time for the cycling leg and may even finish in a respectable time. We did 3 laps on University Blvd. The wind was really strong. Pam F. stayed with me as I was the slowest of the group. I did get my speed up to an average of 14 mph, so that is a vast improvement for me. After the ride, I ran for 15 minutes.