It was OK. I'm trying to make time for me/exercise, but I feel like I'm swimming upstream (literally - I felt like I was working so hard in the pool yesterday and still going so slow).

Working on baby steps and consistency. We are out of town for kid sports the next three weekends, so I'm counting on lots of walking and hopefully sneaking off to a pool once or twice while we are away.

water just gets cranky sometimes, I think it gets annoyed at people peeing in it!

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maybe she's born with it, maybe it's chlorine
If you're injured and need some sympathy, PM me and I'm very happy to write back.
disclaimer: PhD not MD

healthy coping CHECK! only two unhealthy coping days in the past 4 months!
didn't journal every day but did it a bunch
yes on PT stuff

I swam 7 days for a total of 19,731 yards or something like that. Sunday was a 3 mile open water race- had a mid pack finish (small field, 10 or 11 women, I was 6th or 7th... something wonky in the results). Had tummy issues - I kept swallowing air and was bloated the whole race. I was 5 min back from the top woman, so that was out of reach, but the next 4-5 places I was 90 sec back and w/o the tummy issues -and being able to run instead of walk between laps - I think I might have been a little more competitive. So that race I don't really want to talk about, aside from that I am grateful I could do it.

goals this week
healthy coping skills
journal most days
PT exercises
keep swim a level I can do it every day if I want to

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maybe she's born with it, maybe it's chlorine
If you're injured and need some sympathy, PM me and I'm very happy to write back.
disclaimer: PhD not MD

Even if it didn't go how you wanted, it's still training in the bank for future fun.

Yup.
I had a rough Wed and thurs and used unhealthy coping skills both days. I am going to get back on track today. I can do this. I have four months of mostly healthy days (except 4 now) so clearly I can do this.

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maybe she's born with it, maybe it's chlorine
If you're injured and need some sympathy, PM me and I'm very happy to write back.
disclaimer: PhD not MD

Hang in there. Don't let the bad day diminish all the good ones before it.

did a little better today, not perfect

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maybe she's born with it, maybe it's chlorine
If you're injured and need some sympathy, PM me and I'm very happy to write back.
disclaimer: PhD not MD