Monday 3/24

These dark mornings are killing me... no early morning swim. No time. 30 minutes on the stair master and then 15 minutes slow run around midtown track. The run went well. I felt good, slow, but no tightness or pain in the shins. My swim lesson tonight was good- no more flippers. I got some help on my difficulty managing my breathing- breath "from full to half." Also, I should try not to breath out at all during the first stroke after each breath. Blugh. Swimming is hard. In addition to the practice without flippers, I realized that I need to keep practicing the skating drills. It was recommended that particularly the underwater switch and the arm one. My goal at this point early on in training should really be to do more swimming.