When I renewed my club membership late last year, I marked the box for "intermediate" experience level, even though I had 8 years of racing experience. Why? Because I felt like I still had so much to learn from all this! And the clinic proved it true. So today's swim had some new "rules" to it:
1. Spend time on drills, take the time to be mindful of swim form
2. Try to feel the core engage, the power should come from the laterals not the shoulders
3. My butt needs to get higher!
4. My elbows should point to the sides of the pool
5. A pull buoy can be moved anywhere from crotch to ankle to get different outcomes
So with my head full of all these ideas, I did a 750y WU, 400 swim, then 350 of playing with the pull buoy. It was awful hard to swim with it at my ankles! I rolled all over the place and felt awful. Which tells me I need to work on that!
Next up was 4x200 (20s) intervals. The plan didn't say to go all out, but I almost was. Not a sprint, but as fast as I could go for 200y and keep it at a steady pace. The problem was that my form dropped off towards the end. All intervals were 3:55-3:59. My personal goal was 4 mins flat, so that's within range.
Huffin and Puffin, I started the next set of 5x100 (10s). These were all 1:55-1:56, the training plan said I should speed up but I didn't! I stayed about the same but was definitely MESSIER. The 10s rest wasn't enough so I took 20s instead. My form does improve after a bit more rest.
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