It started rough tonight. I was tired when I got to the pool. After a deep breath and stripping down to my skibbies, I jumped on in. I felt really slow and heavy. The strokes weren't getting me anywhere during the warm up and drills.
We did 4x100s for drills, the first 50 were fist drill and I might as well have been drowning. The second 50s were DPS and I started to wonder if I forgot how to swim or if they made the pool longer on Tuesday night.
Maybe it would just be a slow night? The workout starts at 7:30 pm, I could have just as well gone home and laid out on the couch.
But, I was there, in the pool, burping up the smoothie I drank at 5:00.
Tonight's main set was a "quality set" as Amy calls it. Basically we were going to swim 50 yard sprints. Luckily, the cobwebs seemed to clear a little as I started the first 50.
We did 12x50s, the odd 50s fast, and the evens were recovery pace. The fast 50s felt great, and I was able to hold 39 seconds on five of them and 38 seconds on the last one. Funny thing, the recovery swims felt crappy again. What gives?
Oh well, the important part felt good and the rest is just water under the bridge. I think I ended up swimming 1800 yards, counting the cool down.
Not bad, but I was glad to be done.
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