Evolve Make-Up Swim: I DID IT!!

SWIM 70 mins and 2800y

WU of 400easy, 4x50 polo drill, 4x50 eyes-up drill, 200 ez ( I fin'd), 2x100 stroke progression;
then MS of 2x [12x50 as 1-4 25easy/25build; 5-8 25fast/25easy; 9-12 50 fast]
then CD

My options for today were the above session I missed with the group on Monday, or the training plan session of 1000 and 800 loco. Locos are my favorite swim sets, they go by so fast! But I had the missed session on my to-do list, I had made a point of asking for the set so I could get it done, and well, 12x50 sounds so easy-peasy!

After missing Monday's swim, my TAD on Weds, and another miss on Thursday I was determined to get a swim in today. I'm sort of less determined about getting in yet another swim this weekend, with the Tour of Hermann one day and a long run (20 miles?) on the other. It sounds like a good idea, but I don't know if it's going to happen. A balancing act between priority and spousal harmony and getting other things done on the weekend.

ETA: this was the swim at which I thought I saw my MIA pull buoy a few lanes over. Looked like mine, but lacked the bike chain marks and stains.

Why does a set of 2x 12x50 sound so much easier than a 1000+800? Probably because the 50's are broken up into smaller bits, and because let's be honest here a down-n-back is really so short and it doesn't take a lot of convincing to make it just happen.

But the real reason it sounded better is because after the bad afternoon swim on Weds I needed a set in which I could just stop and focus on form. So at every wall rest I stopped and focused. Also this swim had the drills and specifics that I need to be more worried about. Quantity can come later. Quality first!

In the WU I felt the long and strong feeling I'd experienced in the Weds morning swim. It faded after about 1000y, but it was there. By the time I hit the 'fast' sections, it was gone for the most part. Another reason the shorter sets benefit me here -- my arms just need a bit of rest.

There was a 6x50 and 300EZ CD after the 50's. But during the last 200 easy (in which I was kicking) my right calf CRAMPED up, I stopped, stood up, massaged it, felt like an apple in my leg! and at the point just decided to call it done. I was lazily finning away anyway. I had a feeling it was going to cramp, just had that anticipatory tingle to it all morning.

So I'm super happy I did this swim, and happy that that long and strong and efficient feeling might become more frequent!

This weekend is still unplanned. ToH Saturday or Sunday? Long run first or second?
ToH Saturday is 30 mile loops, Sunday is 50 mile loops. I'm not sure I'm up for 50 or 60 miles yet outdoors, so the 30 mile loops sound like the smarter idea. But to drive all that way (80 miles each way!) to ride only 30 miles?! And shouldn't the run take priority? If so, the run should be first on Saturday. Ugh. Undecided!