Marine Corps Birthday Swim Challenge.... Completed!

 The pool here does a Marine Corps Birthday Swim Challenge every year at Birthday time.  The challenge is to swim the number of (100 meter) laps that the Corps is celebrating.  This is the 241st birthday, so you had to swim 241 laps, and you had to do it between Oct 10 and Nov 10. I planned to swim 12 laps 5 days each week to get it done.

Well, this year there was a bit of an extra challenge. The pool heater broke. And the water was cold.  And getting colder.  It was 76 degrees the first week, which is when I learned about the broken heater and the complexity of getting it fixed.  Realizing that the pool was not going to get warmer any time soon, I had to decide if I was going to try to get it done as fast as possible, or call it quits.

I decided I was going to get it done till the temp went below 73.  The Lord smiled upon me and it held steady at 74 degrees the entire second week, and I swam like I never had before.  Coff, coff.... Despite the doctor telling me I ought to cut back because my shoulder probably has an overuse injury.  Motrin was my friend.  I got it done on Saturday of the second week.

The top 25 get a free T Shirt and bragging rights.  I was finisher #8.  Whoo-hoo!

Me at the pool, ready to swim my last 20 laps, and not excited about getting in the cold water.

Here is my lap count sheet.  I just want to be able to look back and say, yeah I did that!