Toughen Up Cupcake!

So I was going to post about the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad 24 Hours but I decided that could wait for one more day because I have not done a Cupcake post in while and I did a Cupcake thing today!!!!!!

The original Cupcake post and explanation is

HERE :)

I have been in a Master Swim class two days a week and today our coach said that after our warm up we were going to do a 1500 time trial. (Down and back is a 50 in our pool) We were told that we could do it however we wanted, swim 500 rest, swim 500 - whatever but we were going to be timed. I decided that my goal was to start and not stop. I have been working on improving my flip turns so I thought this would be the perfect chance to start and not stop.

I started swimming....

then I swam some more...........

then I swam some more

Pretty soon I was singing to myself

justkeepswimmingjustkeepswimmingjustkeepswimmingjustkeepswimming

at about 800 I started with the mental games -

I cannot believe that I am only halfway through

my head is starting to hurt

maybe if I just stopped for a second to take a break

WHY CAN'T I REMEMBER TO BRING MY OWN GATORADE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

stuff like that

But you know what - I just kept swimming. If it hurt - I kept swimming. When I felt tired - I kept swimming.

I told myself that I could keep swimming and you know what

I could!

This is me - after my workout, red in the face, running late so no makeup, but I had to take a picture of myself to remember

If I remind myself that I can

I CAN!