Like a Fish outta water? And other things

So I may do something I never thought I would. I may join the "Fishtwitch" March challenge on slowtwitch. On this web forum, they create these little challenges and then you track and log your training and you can see where you rank in terms of different things (overall volume, distance, time, # of workouts, etc) amongst the other participants in the challenge. So they have some that are run specific (100 in 100), overall volume based on a points system, and there's ALWAYS a monthly "Fishtwitch" one, which is basically just swimming volume. I've never given that one much consideration because I've always know I don't swim enough and never had the desire to swim anymore than I absolutely HAVE TO. Well I figure if I wanna get faster, I'm going to have to get my butt in the pool A LOT more. My goal is to do 10, 000M per week, that's 2000M workouts 5 times per week, for the month of March. I'm pretty sure that if I do this I will match or be close to last YEAR'S OVERALL volume of swimming! That should be an awesome challenge, and it's great for active recovery from running. So I figure by the end of March I'll have some half decent swim fitness, and then I can seek out some help in terms of my stroke, to make it more efficient, and thus make me a little faster. I swam a hard 50M last night, all out, at the end of my workout and did it in 42 seconds, which I'm pretty happy with.

Today we're off to Surf Camp! We need to be in Sydney by 5:30PM but I think Tunes and I are going to go in earlier than that. I want to get to Southside Runner's (a store) to pick up some compression socks. These aid a lot with recovery and injury prevention.

When we get back from this trip I'm HARDCORE into finding a job. I need to get something soon as, even though Julia is making decent money, and enough to cover our basic living expenses, if we want to be able to save and take a nice trip or two I'll have to work as well.

Anyways, I'm off to the pool!