The Key to Blogging is Consistency

Ah, yes, blogging. That thing that I thought I would do all the time. I thought I would have SO much to talk about. People would be wowed by my awesomeness. The truth is: I got bored with me. If I was bored, God knows the rest of you would have been bored reading about my boringness.

So I thought about how to be un-boring. And I realized the truth. That ain't never going to happen.

What I did instead was find ways to get re-motivated. Sure, I was still swimming twice a week with an instructor and meeting with my personal trainer once a week, but I had stopped pushing myself. I was still scared to walk into the pool on my own. What would happen if the lanes were full? Do I wait? Do I ask to share? Will the other people judge me for being such a slow swimmer? Is it ok that after about 75 yards I have to take a breath every time?

I started becoming less worried about what others were thinking and more worried about how I was progressing. In practice I would swim around an 700, but that was with drills and stopping to chat with my instructor. It was time to see what I could actually do.

So I did it. I started swimming all by my lonesome.

And I realized something awesome.

I can swim a full half mile. I pause here and there for a sip of water, but never more than a 20 second break.

Then I realized something else. My sprint tri only requires me to swim a half mile. And I have until August to get better at it, to be faster, more efficient.

My final realization came. I got this.

I also realized, I should blog more.....