.4 mile at 48 Degrees

My new apple watch can record all kinds of things about my swims, part of why I chose it in the end. Today was the first day that I wore it for a real swim, and I was so happy with it! I met my friend at the beach at lunch for a swim out to the point. The initial plan was to do the full triangle that we do, but when we got into the water it was 48, and we decided better safe than sorry, and to return to the beach. The start was really hard for me - my face was so cold and even though I did my mantra of counting my strokes and saying "breathe through it" I was struggling to breathe through it. I finally got into a rhythm, but I had to stop a couple times to give my face a break.

It was actually pretty nice out, but the sky was full of clouds, and the sun went in and out as we were swimming. So, there were some times that were colder. Anyhow, once I got going it was fine. We got back to the beach after being in the water for 20 ish minutes. My friend wanted to complete the half mile, but I was kind of done, and we both wound up getting out. I could tell he was bummed with himself after for not finishing - we were cold but neither of us really had much after drop or shivering, so we would have been fine doing it. Anyhow, we both also agreed that hypothermia isn't necessary.

After we got dressed we had tea - I made mint tea with mint from my garden, and added just a little sugar to it. Wow, it made such a difference to have the sugar in it - I was a little nervous that I wasn't going to be able to finish all the tea bags I made, but now I think I have it figured out! In the end, my watch said exactly .4 mile, with the parts once I got going being around 2'50" pace. For sure not fast, but it's OK. The thing that I was actually most excited about was that I swam in a really straight line! Ha! Go me! So excited to be able to track this stuff even closer.

This evening I used my last class that I paid for at the hot yoga studio. It said it was slow flow, but I didn't realize how slow it was going to be. I'm going to be excited to get back to not-hot yoga for sure!