An Emotional Triumph

The Narwhal Triple Bypass Swim Challenge:

3 workouts, 10,000 yards, 1 day!

AND I DID IT!!!!

Let me break it down for those of you who might not be familiar with swimming.

10,000 yards is 4.5 times as much as my normal daily swim.
10,000 yards is 400 laps.
10,000 yards is equal to 6 swimming miles.

My lungs felt great.  Although I did wake up the next morning feeling stiff as a board, but now I have an excuse to go get a massage.  ☻

Even though a handful of people from the MAC team completed this challenge, I overcame more than just swimming 10,000 yards.  Part of me wasn't sure I could do it.  Others didn't think I could or should do it.  I'm so glad that I gave it a go and ended up succeeding.  Granted all I did that day was literally sleep, swim, and eat...in that order...three times that day. 


The Workout

Stage 1
1000 warm up
4 x 250
10 x 100
10 x 50

Stage 2
800
12 x 50
600
6 x 100
400
20 x 25's kick

(At this point, I knew I had a 150 left from my 800 to make up from the warmup.  I also thought that we only did 2 x 600 when we actually did 3!  So, I stayed and "made up" the 600 hundred that I thought I was behind on.  So in Stage 2, I actually swam 4100 yards.  Yea, I'm an idiot.)

Stage 3
10 x 100
2 x 200
6 x 100
8 x 50

(Or something close to this.  My brain was fried and all the workouts were merging together in my mind!)

GO TEAM NARWHALS!