Barely missed second place! [Iron Mike's Marathon Swims » Iron Mike's Marathon Swims --]

I last posted about the mile time trial I did with Upul, my new friend at the pool here. He’s offered to time me for 5 distances: mile, half-mile, quarter, 200m and 100m. I’ve done the mile so far, and thought I swam it in 30:47.

How excited I was when I walked in on Monday to find that I had swum that mile (1600m) in 30:07.94! And only missed second place by 23 seconds. Goal for next time.

Was going to swim the 100m this week, but Upul was out on Thursday and Friday. I’ll attack it next week. Then I’ll work back up the chart, one time trial a week.

There’s also that t-shirt at 50 miles. As of today I’m at 17 miles since starting on 9 September. Plus now we can swim more than three times a week. Starting next Monday, I’ll swim six days a week. That t-shirt is getting closer and closer!