nanci,

you are so funny! when i first read in one of your posts that you were going to do a 800yd swim, i was thinking, wow, that is pretty far for a first time swim!!

i went out to the site where our little ocean swim is going to be held. we have to swim around a pier and this cement ship (yes, it's actually cement). it looked a lot farther than the 400yds that it's supposed to be. in fact, my friend claims that it's more than 400 yds -- maybe it's actually 400 meters!! LOL!

i think it's really quite common to look out and think that it looks far because most of us are used to only swimming laps in the pool and it's hard to visual what those laps would look like back-to-back.

anyway, congratulations to you.

-frances