Friday morning swim

SWIM: 2500y in 65 mins. WU of 400 swim, then 8x (25y kick, 25y drill). MS of 2x [5x150y (10s)] 1 min. CD of 200 swim.

While driving to the pool this morning, I was remarking (to myself) about just how good I feel. 'Shouldn't I be more tired? Am I training enough? Am I training hard enough?". I start to doubt my efforts, while at the same time thinking I'm really loving this IM training stuff. I feel great.

A short lived feeling.

This swim was much better than Wed's, during which I was sloppy and unfocused. Today at least I was able to focus. I slowed down to make sure the technique was neat, sacrificing a harder workout for a clean one. But I was tired! By the end of the 1st half of the WU, I was huffing away. This made my form all the worse. And like most things, the more sloppy you are the harder you have to work. Hydrodynamics are not forgiving.

Things to work on. Keeping head down, I keep lifting my head to look slightly forward. My right arm still sweeps under me. My left arm has a dragging recovery. My kick is slightly off balanced.

Tomorrow might be an open water swim, if I don't chicken out due to temperatures!