A new master's!!

SWIM 1hr 25 mins, 3000y!

The other Master's I was doing on Sats changed with a new coach. It wasn't that great of a workout for a triathlete anyway, with lots of 25's 50's and other short sets. So I'd quit going, missing out on a great day to get a swim in without having to back-to-back Sunday/Monday.

CP had pitched this swim to me before but a Saturday morning swim during the summer when I could be riding is harder to do. So I'd ignored this option until now, when I needed to re-energize my swimming and find my groove again.

I already knew 2 people swimming, but I was also surprised to find about 5 others I knew as well! All triathletes too!

This swim was long but much different from the weekday masters I normally do. The main difference--I wasnt' rushed! I was a normal-paced swimmer in my lane! No worry about being run over, no worry about being in the way. If anything I was touching feet sometimes! What a difference this makes, so much calmer.

I noticed (not for the first time) that as a set progresses I lose form. And no matter how hard I try, I can't force myself to swim properly. So at the end I asked CP how to balance the need to swim long against the fall-off of form. Sure I could swim shorter, more perfecter sets but that doesn't help me extend my good swimming. His suggestion was to find that distance at which I lose form, and focus on one thing to remedy my form in the last 50. And ask CHG waht that one thing is.

My arms weren't as sore as I thought they'd be after this, I'd expected to be limp!