May 24: Swim - 50m pool, 6:20-7:10pm

It's been a while since I wrote my blog but I've been to 25m pool and 50m pool, twice each. I swam 1.2km each. In 25m pool, 750m was the longest swim in one go, and 500m for 50m pool.

Today, the pool was relatively empty so it was easy to swim. Usually I swim first 200m and take a break, checking my body and how busy it is. However today was pretty empty so I decided to see how long I can swim in one go.

In the next mid-speed lane (mine is a slow lane), a young lady was trying to beat me, so I put some power in to my arms and tried to increase the speed, but still slower than this lady. So I used my legs. I avoided getting cramps by putting some power into my thighs and not to my calfs. Then I was faster than her. In the last 25m, I was able to beat her. And this was so interesting, after the turn, I continued to use the similar technique to my legs. It doesn't get too hard in terms of breathing, but I can feel the water around my face is flowing faster. It felt like when I put fins to my feet in Belgium, and I can feel my body is floating. It was almost 500m point so I slowed down to 2 beat speed and swam the rest of it. Sometimes when the lane gets stuck, then I turn at 25m pool but managed to keep the speed and swam 1km. This meant that I've achieved my goal. As I thought, when I swim continuously, the body get adjusted to the water. Therefore, I think I can swim longer.

From now on, I'm going to focus on my legs and manage to keep 2minute for 100m speed. I'll have to search for the ways to make my legs effective.

For the last 200m, I managed to swim in 38 strokes for 50m. This is a great news. I'm going to aim for 2 beat legs and make an effective speed.

Since I managed to achieve 1km swim without a break, my focus will be to swim 100m in 2 minutes.

May 8: Swim - 25m pool, 7:30-8:30pm

The doctor visit on May 7th ended up finding out that with googles, I am permitted to swim, so it has been 2 months since my last swim on March 3rd. Initially they told me I won't be able to swim for 3 months, so I'm very happy :) I assumed that my muscles and stamina has reduced dramatically so I swam slowly and counted how many stokes I had for 25m, and it resulted as 16 strokes. Yes I have lost stamina (muscles). For a while I swam 50m each by confirming the form, and then swam for 500m. It took 11mintues which is not so bad as I thought. The target is to swim 1km non-stop in 50m pool, and by end of July, swim 750m in 15minutes or so. It might be a challenging target, but since I have no idea where I'll be for running due to my knee, I thought I'd have the swim target higher anyway.

Result: 50m x 6, 500m x 1, 200m x 1, total 1km