SWIM: 75 mins and 2500y. MS of 4x75 kicking, 300 with fins, 100 fast, 100 easy, 5x200 with intervals that I ignored.
Once again I showed up on time for the swim! This isn't hard to do, so I should keep doing it :) I was in the 2nd lane with 4 others who were all faster than me. That's OK. But it's frustrating.
For each set they swam, I swam less. They did 400 with fins, 200 easy, 8x225 intervals. They swam all total a 3800?!? (Really?!?)...more bad math...I just realized I swam a 2500y not a 2350...just corrected it :) Forgot about the 4x50 I also did. yay.
Anyhoo, I'm the slowest in the lane and the other swimmers are stretched out enough that they take up a whole one side of the lane. I would wait at the wall as I could to let someone by, then jump into the train, wait to let some by, etc. Now I'm complaining and grateful at the same time. This waiting gave me needed rest. But this waiting also threw off my intervals. Instead of a steady set or 30s rest, I had interupted intervals and more/less than 30s for sets.
Usually this really throws me and I get all negative. Today I just rolled with it, knowing I'd get faster. Just kept pushing and kept swimming, feeling faster and stronger than just a few weeks ago. But it's still hard to be the slowest! The one guy in our lane (name?) was the speedster today. He kept catching me all the time. So near the end I was feeling a little guilty about throwing off their sets so I said "I'm having trouble keeping pace with you guys today!". He surprised me by saying "You're doing great!". !! And here I was starting to take a worried/negative view of the guy, thinking in my head that he was probably frustrated with me for breaking up his intervals. Lesson learned!
In other news, my new aero swim cap died this morning. And I saw JTG at the pool, first time I've seen him since last Sept!
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