Swimming both Saturday and Sunday finally
When I got up this morning, I didn’t think it was going to happen. I didn’t sleep well last night, which has become a little too common, slept in this morning and when I did finally get up my back was sore, so I planned on skipping practice.
Around 10am, when I finally decided it was time to take a shower, I turned on the water and said, “I feel fine now, maybe I will swim later.” Realized how stupid that was, turned the water off and headed directly to the gym.
I am focusing on going fast on the weekend, and not really worrying about yardage. Saturday, I hopped in and did a 200m warm up (very short warm up for me) and then immediately did a 200m free for time. This will be very similar to a meet, where I will have a shorter than usual warm up and than an all out sprint. I actually swam faster from a push (not off the blocks), than I did in the November meet. The bad news is, I am still 20+ seconds off my goal time and 10 seconds off what I need to be able to go from a push to realistically hit my goal time (1:49.99 yards).
Today, instead of doing a fast 200, I did 8×50 all out on a minute. My goal currently on this set is to swim 50s on a 30 and this morning is was swimming 32-33. Not where I need to be yet.
I am happy that I finally got to swim 5 days out of 7, and hopefully I can maintain that. I am moving in the right direction toward my goal, and it will be obvious in a couple weeks if I am progressing fast enough to achieve it by the end of March.
I might go to a meet at the end of the month by myself so I can get a real race in before Zones. Entries are due on the 25th, so I will probably wait until the last minute to enter. Don’t really like the pool hosting the meet 