Germantown Aquatic Center

The Germantown Aquatic Center (located at the Germantown Soccerplex complex) is a crazy busy place. ALWAYS. Everywhere and at all hours of the day, there are kids and adults swimming and playing in the pools. It's madness, but I finally found a time and day when the pool is calm and quiet. The magic time is between 1 and 2pm on the weekdays. Kids (most of them) are at school and adults (many of them) are at work.

Here is a picture of the kid's pool...Looks like fun, doesn't it?

This week is a challenge week for training which means, the workouts are harder and and the distances were swimming, biking and running are longer. Every challege week is followed by an easy training week.

On the agenda for today's swim was a 5-minute warm-up, a 20-minute continuous swim (freestyle, no stopping) followed by a 30-second rest and another 20-minute continuous swim. For cool down, we were to swim 3 X 100, no freestyle. Today's swim was the best swim I've had since Chris and I started training for the triathlon. Not only did I not have to share the lane with anyone, but I didn't feel like an asthmatic elephant! Yeah!! That's progress.