So, I did some math, which I’m capable of doing if everyone leaves me alone and it’s quiet and I have a calculator.  Amway, I’ve only swum 189.66 miles this year so far, counting last night’s awesomely fun masters workout. (Besides warm-up and cool-down, we did a timed 5 x 100 SCY swim, during which I swam 1:13, 1:14, 1:16, 1:18 and 1:21. And that’s from the wall, ya’ll!) Back to the point: I’ll need to do just over a mile a day every day to hit my goal this year, which was 300 miles. So, to make the math easier, I’m aiming for 8 miles a week between now and New Year’s Eve.

Will I do it? I don’t know. Really, it doesn’t matter. But it’s fun to have goals. Maybe next year I’ll just track time. I say loudly and often that I am more concerned with time horizontal than distance. (My back complains if I don’t have a lot of horizontal time prior to an OW swim.) Perhaps I’ll put my money where my mouth is in 2014 and just track minutes.* We’ll see.

*This year so far I’ve swum 108 hours 3 minutes. That’s it. Pathetic.