After not being able to workout for a whole week because of a bruised rib from playing ice hockey I got back to training for the triathlon. I woke up early in the morning and swam laps at Golds Gym. Holy cow, after about 4 laps in the25 meter Olympic pool my arms felt like pasta noodles. I had no idea how hard swimming would be. I have had 4 shoulder surgeries also so I bet that didn’t help either. I decided after the swim that I really needed to focus on my swimming. Almost every day thereafter I would swim on my lunch break. It would amaze me to see the people that were swimming 60 – 70 laps in the pool at a time when I could barely swim 10 – 20 laps. All was needing to swim for the first triathlon was 12 laps in a 50 meter pool (300m) and I would be fine. This scared me pretty bad but I kept training and sooner than later it seemed to get easier.