Evolve swim & 18 weeks!?

SWIM 1hr and 2300y, mix of fast 50's and 100's

To my surprise I felt amazing after the long weekend. Now it's time to TAPER!! Don't forget that either.

The swim was a WU then 1800 yards of something like 8x50, 4x100, 6x50, 3x100, etc until we reached 1800y. The rest intervals were short, 5s for 50 and 10s for 100. Just enough to catch your breath and hear SM count down the numbers.

At first the Blerch kept popping up. Saying "this is why we quit master's - we didn't like having to hurry and swim with poor form to keep out of everyone's way". But I wasn't in anyone's way, I had plenty of space. So screw off Blerch. "But your form is so awful, if you'd just slow down you could focus on form". SM said just go and forget about that when trying to go fast, so shut up Blerch. "But..." SHUT UP BLERCH! I KNOW I'm the slowest one in the lane, no need to keep pointing it out!

I wasn't timing the 50's, but I was doing 100y in about 1:50 and under pretty consistently. I need swims like this, alone I'd slow down or hang on the wall to stop and think. No thinking. Just swimming. It worked.

At the end of the swim, SM said TH and I had 18 weeks until our race! WHAT!!! FOR SERIOUS!! Off to stare at my Excel calendar and start making plans!

Felt great the rest of the day -- sharp, energetic, and focused. Felt the same way last week too. Something about a fast focused, social swim that gets me going?