This morning was our first official swimming training--though without the team-- and one of the things that we were supposed to do was swim for 20 minutes straight and see how far we could go. If we could make it a half mile or more in the 20 minutes we can be considered ADVANCED swimmers. We both did it! For me (Andrea) the swimming is the only part of this where I can have a shread of pride about my athletic abilities. I am going to be seriously dogging it on the runs for a while so it just makes me feel a little better that I can be comfortable and confident in my ability for some of this. And I have to say that it feels pretty good (despite my very sore muscles) to have completed a solid workout by 7:15 am. I certainly wasn't motivating myself to do that.