Swimmin' like a rock

I love to complain about how bad of a swimmer I am. Every race I get out of the water baffled by the time on my watch. 'How can I be so slow when I work my arse off!?! Grr!!' - That's normally what runs through my head in T1. But, if I'm brutally honest I know exactly why those numbers don't diminish over time. The proof is in the pudding, and this week I've had my taste.

Guess how many times I made it to the pool in the past week? One time, and I didn't even get to swim, there was a meet going on... so zero times! I made it to the river for a few swims, the quarry, and I even got in the dirty ol' channel, but how many times did I get in the pool... goose egg. Long and slow seems to work just fine in my book, yet it I never fail to be perplexed that I can't swim fast in a race.

I love to throw up a lung when I ride and run, but for some reason I can't do it in the pool! How do you swimmers not rip your eyeballs out from the boredom? I know I need to suck it up and get it done, after all the only way to become a better swimmer is to, well, swim.

I have a race next week. My last two races were pretty uneventful, and this is a fast course, so I'm looking for a good confidence boost - just racing against myself and the clock. A swimmer friend told me he swims a bit everyday leading up to a race, so I'll try the strategy. Starting Monday (that's not an excuse to have the weekend off, that's because no pool in the city is open this weekend!) I'll swim everyday. It's a silly little goal, as that's only five days, but for me it's a toughy. So bring on the green hair and that sexy chlorine smell, I'm gonna learn to swim!