However, I was first in the slow lane, and one of my fellow draggers, Tom, followed right after me when I began to swim. He was kidding me and complained that I was swimming too fast for a warm-up after I finished my second lap, breathing heavily.
Perhaps that is a big part of the problem, I don't actually start at a slow pace. I tried to start slower today, but think it's the initial panic kicking in and I want to get to the end as soon as possible. Still will take a while to get over that panic hump.... however, I did get over the panic about 12 minutes into the swim, so I could be slowing down, some.
Or, I could just be a distance person.... I find that about 25 minutes into the swim, I feel I could go forever.... maybe I am better at endurance than short and fast since I grew up playing soccer, definitely an endurance sport (with a ton of sprints thrown in.....)
Today was pretty cool. After an initial warm-up/drill session, they removed all the lane lines (those things that float to keep you from running into the guy in the next lane....). It's amazing how they keep the waves of all the swimmers down. I thought they were just there for the "stay in your lane" reason, but it turns out they are also there to diminish the turbulence..... So I've had my first open-water-simulated swim. Very choppy, but I didn't feel any issues (especially since I could see the bottom and push off from the wall every 25 yards - and there were no snakeheads..... ok, not an open-water-simulated swim, more like a choppy-pool simulated swim......). We swam for 30-minutes non-stop like that. Can't complain. Again, though, I swam about 10 minutes, got out of breath, switched to back-stroke for 25 yards to catch my breath, but then went without a hitch for the rest of the swim - I could breathe and didn't have pain in the shoulders or anything - could have kept going if I didn't have to brave the traffic to get back home.....pretty cool.....
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