First pool swim in years

Man, am I out of shape.

I took the family to the local pool last Sunday.  During adult swim I left the four year old with my wife and went to "knock out some laps".  The lanes are only 25m.  I made the first leg ok, trying some of the techniques I've read about here.  At the turn-around I paused to eye the two teen girls hanging on the  end of the pool having a yap session to make sure they weren't going to suddenly realize that the pool is for *swimming* and jump into the lane.  Halfway back and I'm hurting.

Good thing my first tri is a little over a year away.  It will make a nice story after I complete my first sprint, "yeah, last year I couldn't even complete a lap in the pool".

Something I noticed.  I never had trouble with water up my nose before.  A couple of years ago (when I went for my UPPP for apnea) the doc told me that I had a "severely deviated septum" so he did a septoplasty at the same time.  On this swim I had a devil of a time keeping water out of my nose. It might have also had something to do with the fact that I was trying to keep my head down as described here.  I just couldn't seem to exhale hard enough to keep the water out.