IRON.MEHTA · MISSION CONTROL
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When the pool lights come on at 18:47, the water feels heavier, like it wants a better answer.
About 35 minutes indoors: line drills, then steady freestyle. Long exhale, patient catch, smooth over fast. Feet quiet, hips higher, breath settles. Below the surface, things connect.
Progress rarely announces itself. The stroke stops leaking. That’s enough.
186 days to Melbourne. Small deposits, steady account. 🫧
I am not training to finish my race in November. I am training to be the best version of myself.
This is a public ledger. Every workout — the good, the boring, the ones I would rather not remember — gets logged here automatically from Strava. No filtering. No retroactive story arc.
I am 40-something, working a real job, training around it. The interesting stuff is not the race day. It is the ordinary morning before work. The lap before the rhythm clicks. The kilometre where the mind stops narrating and the body just gets on with it.
Melbourne is the deadline. Showing up is the point.
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