I will post some pictures when I get back home, but I am over in Dresden Germany for some business and found a 50m old school East German era pool 1.5K walk from my hotel. So today I did an early morning 3500m swim and an evening 4000m swim. Really nice 50m long course:




I have been targeting 90k swimming per month with these challenges and it occurred to me that today is the 99th day of the year, so I checked my yearly total and surpassed 300k (302K as of today). That's usually a decent year of swimming for me. Of course, I did zero run and XC skiing this winter, so the swimming did not seem like "that much"...basically a bit under 1 hour of swimming per day. I am used to doing 2+ hours of training per day spread over many sports. Right now it is mainly swim and some trainer time. Definitely feeling fit based on my bike FTP. Swim times have also come down a few seconds per 100m, but seems I can hold form and speed for longer sets.

Oh and today it was pretty funny some guy in an IM Austria hat ends up in my lane and next thing you know he is drafting my feet, then I am drafting him and it went on like we were in a triathlon swim leg in a respectful way each taking our pulls! No communication due to language barrier but mutual respect.