7km in 2 hours 10 minutes!
I am happy.
Dad came to the pool to time me, and Anita's daughter was there too. Christine told me she wants me to be able to feed while moving so I had to kick on my back while drinking my water bottle. I think Dad was impressed with me and with how consistent I was. I feel strong! I was so surprised that I wasn't totally exhausted by the end of it, Anita said the same thing, like we could have kept going. We didn't, mind you, but we talk big. We both even made it to Masters this morning and I did an 18 min run this afternoon. I think a big part of my training is also proving to myself that I can do this, and I'm beginning to really believe that I can. 7 km is about a third of my total distance. I'm told pool swimming is easier than open water swimming because you don't have walls to push off of every 25m in a lake, and there are waves, so the two are not directly comparable, but lets say 1/3.
Here's some more math for you. Apparently the conversion between running and swimming distances is roughly x4. For example 7km swimming is roughly equivalent to a 28km run. So basically I just did a swimming half marathon and then some! Which is obviously crazy for me since I could never do the running equivalent, but I've been reassured that people are very rarely good at both running AND swimming.
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