A valuable lesson in triathlon swim happened today. I don't normally swim on Friday mornings because of work, but I was off today and so I hit the pool. Walked in about my normal time (6:05am) and to my horror the pool was so crowded! There are only 6 lanes, and they all had multiple people in them already. I froze, and was thinking about whether I should just go run and skip my swim and try to make it up later, or what. I spied a lane with only 1 person in it, and decided to go for it.
It was crazy. I was passing people on both sides each lap going one direction or another, the water was "choppier" than normal because of all the people in there, and I really had to look around a lot more than I usually do (obviously, so I didn't swim into someone). And the person in my lane was doing a different stroke each lap, of course, so it was harder to look out for her because I never knew what to expect her to be doing. And then one time she passed me and her hand touched my foot! I momentarily panicked like there might be a throw down in the pool, but she kept on swimming, and then I realized that I was hugging my lane marker and she was definitely hogging the middle, and she came up on me, so what was I worried about...other than she clearly didn't want to be sharing because she never did move over. Pool etiquette, woman!
While not ideal for me, I did swim a better time than on Wednesday at the same distance, and it was good to be swimming around so many other bodies because I have a feeling that is going to be complete chaos on race day, except at least then we'll all be headed, hopefully, in the same direction!
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