One week away from the pool = one fast swimmer
It wasn't by design but somehow I managed to have 7 days away from the pool. I had some pretty heavy training days last week; almost 300 km on the bike and a new PB with my LSD (1.5 hrs) so I ditched my Thurs and Sunday early am swims to sleep in.
At the time I felt a tad guilty... I LOVE my training but my body was telling me to rest and I listened.
Good thing too because I was in the pool at 6am this morning eager to do some laps. I probably had one of THE best swims of my training season thus far. Everything was just in "sync". I was gliding SO effortlessly and at one point my stroke count was down to 14!!
After the Tri swim class finished (today was a pretty mellow 2.5 km workout) I was feeling really great and decided to do a 2.0km time trial in lieu of my 1/2 IM exactly one month and one day from today!
I haven't swum 2.0km "continuously" this season so I wasn't sure what to expect. I started out pretty slow, 10:30 over the first 500m.. yeah that was pretty slow!! ... but put in some solid negative 500m splits over the next 1500m and finished the entire swim in 39:05.
Hopefully I can hit around that mark at my 1/2 IM next month. Cripes the race season is here!!! What the hell am I going to wear....
posted by Peter Lawson at 7:08 pm
3 Comments:
I love when that happens! I find I often have great swims after a quick break, too. Maybe my body gets sick of laps, and then I take a break, and it forgets that it got bored? Dunno =)
Peter..
your count stroke is really good. are u swimming in a 25 m pool??
My time for 1 K is about 22-23 min. But my count stroke is quite high..i think around 19 or so.
Hey Cliff :)
yeah mate it's a 25m pool! My Stroke count is usually in the 17-19 range as well, but yesterday was just "on".
cheers mate
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