All of the open swim times at the alma mater's pool are at least 90 minutes, which means I can tackle the two miles in an hour goal in a better way than before, by swimming two miles a day and trying to increase my speed to get down to an hour. Maybe I'll have to be more official and try a mix of speed and distance workouts, but I'm still pretty casual about all this. As long as I can get to 10 miles a week - without injury, god damn it - I think I'll be happy.
I suspect that to keep eating what I like and maintain the weight I want, I'll have to slowly raise the mileage or the speed to burn more calories. But those worries are a ways off...
Step one in the new goal-reaching scheme is to swim two miles at a time, so I stepped up to a little over 3,000 yards Sunday. Sixty laps in 60 minutes is not too tough, but I'm not quite there. I raised the warmup to 750 yards, then at least 2,250, then a short cooldown. I think that with the break and the likely extra laps, I probably was around 50 yards a minute, but who knows? And I suppose, who cares? It was a very good swim, in pleasantly chilly water.
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