"Just keep swimming, just keep swimming..."

Think about it: you are all snuggled up in bed and you wake up and it's dark and cold outside, snow on the ground and all that... who in their right mind would want to jump into a swimming pool in The Vail Valley in Colorado? It kind of sounds like a bad dream.

Getting in the pool for Masters Swim can be tough... but once you are in, ahhh it's gorgeous, and you feel brave and proud of yourself for making the choice to be there. Yes, that's right, it is a choice. A little realization I have made is: getting out of bed is hard, no matter what time of day you do it, but you still have to do it!

My first 2 summers doing triathlon I didn't train for my swim at all, yes I know, shocking. I thought that I was fit enough and hey, I am Australian, I was raised in the water, how much faster was I going to get. I was convinced that working on my bike and run would be more fruitful in reducing my race times. Ohh how I was wrong.

I was completely frustrated last July that I was adding time to my swim leg from races of the previous year. So I decided to start training it 3 times a week. Not surprisingly, I actually started looking forward to being in the pool and saw improvements in my times, funny that!

I have recently backed off and are only swimming twice a week and it was making me sad. I felt like I was undoing all my hard work over the summer. This morning it took over 40 mins before I was feeling good in the pool. Every now and then I feel like I can swim forever, that's what I felt like today. I got in this zone that felt like a "swimmer's high". I turned into Dory... "just keep swimming, just keep swimming..." I swam 3600m and was in a great mood for the rest of the day :)