Week 1: The pool is not my friend

So last week I made a return to the pool after some 9 years away from swimming, and man was it ever easy to sum up how I felt.  In one word? CRAP.  The thing with swimming is it's not like running or biking in that if you take an extended hiatus away from it, the worse that happens when you come back is you lose some speed, and you loose a little bit of endurance.   Swimming however felt like I had literally lost EVERYTHING.  I think it took all of 50 meters for me to realise that man swimming is super hard.  Then I probably another 5 meters to realise that there is no way in hell that I'm going to be able to do 3.8 km.  So pretty much at this point right now it's just a case of swimming as much as possibly and hoping that the form starts coming back and in a hurry.