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I reached three milestones today. First, I swam 1,800 yards for my mile, putting my cumulative at 50,200 yards with 1,709,800 left to go. So, w00t, I am at 50k!

More interesting, I did that mile without stopping (other than the micro-breaks where I hit the end of the pool and have to turn around; since I don’t do the kick turn, that adds a bit of time longer of “rest” then it would be with the kick turn, but I think it’s negligible).

Finally, I did that mile…in exactly one hour! Okay, one caveat to that. I’m 90% sure it was one hour. See, when I got in the pool I looked at the clock and saw that it was “two minutes away from 5:30″, where “away” means the minute hand was that far from 5:30. My entire swim, I was certain it was 5:32 when I started, but when I saw I could reach the hour mark, I immediately began to doubt and thought, What if it was 5:28 when I started?

In any case, I finished at 6:32. So either I swam it in an hour or I swam it in 1:04. Either way would be a record, and since it’s not yet under the hour mark I’m not overly concerned with which one it was. Still, as I said, I’m 90% sure I started at 5:32 and with only 10% uncertainty that maybe it was 5:28.

Got 2,000 yards today. Total is now 48,400 with 1,711,600 left to go.

I forgot my water bottle today, and since I didn’t want to risk a repeat of my leg cramp I only did a thousand yards today. Still, that puts me to 46,400 total with 1,713,600 left to go. As you can tell, it’s been a pathetic week so far. That’s mostly due to our month-end close at work, but we finished that today so I’m hoping to get back on track. Now I just need to remember my water when I go swimming, cuz for some reason the pool water…not a good thing to drink.