I had great intentions of beginning this elaborate training plan, but then it started getting very cold and snowed and I allowed it to put the kaibash on my swimming program. It never really got to where I wanted it from there that season.
Four years later, I'm feeling like my next iron distance will be the equivalent of getting my degree. I've gained great wisdom and experience, but I'm still not an expert. Since I've made all the mistakes of overtraining, undertraining, not training, training injured, allowing injuries to interfere unnecessarily with training, following a plan too closely, ignoring the plan, I think I'm ready to make new and original mistakes.
I've done something I haven't done before, which is to fully embrace the swimming pool. I have my flippers, paddles and new goggles and I've already signed up for 6 weeks of lessons. I believe I have the potential to be among the first people out of the water and even though it can be annoying to get passed on the bike, it's fun to get out of the water and see all those bikes sitting at the racks as I jog out of the transition.
Goggles have been problematic recently. As for many people, I struggle with comfort and leakage. I had pretty good luck with Aqua Sphere, but the pair I had eventually wore out and I was never thrilled with them. I tried another Aqua Sphere goggle, the Seal XP, which has a wider covereage on the face that I thought would solve both leaking and comfort, but as it turned out, vision was a problem, they weren't more comfortable and leaked on the edges.
I'm going with another Aqua sphere goggle with a big lense and I'm also going to try the Swedish goggles as well. I had a friend try to convince me to use these when I first started out, and they were just too weird for me at the time. I'm going to try them again this season (I actually never got past putting them together) as the person at the swim store swore by them.
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