Late night yesterday with the travel. We finally got in just after ten, then the cat was out of sorts after four days alone, so she was allowed on the bed to sleep. That meant a little less sleep for the people of the house, but it was enough to get ready to swim this morning.
We were finally rejoined by some of the club members who did IMLP, so today was a somewhat easier technique oriented day. This worked well for me, since I still need to work lots on technique. The coach pulled me from the water twice to work on a couple of things with my entry. I'm still not consistently wide enough, and my entry is also too shallow. He wants me to have my fingers about a foot below the surface of the water at full extension. I found right away that this allows for better leverage during the catch, since I'm almost right at the point of anchoring my hand in the water. The coach also noticed that I bend my elbow quite a bit during the catch to set up the pull, and we'll be working on having a somewhat straighter arm (~75 degrees). This should give me a better pulling surface. I could feel, even during fist drills, that I had a "bigger paddle". I hope this is another few seconds per 100 at Muskoka.
Swim: w/u - 200m each free, non-free, pull
4x(200 as 25 drill/25 free
200 pull, 30") Drills: 1) catch-up, 2) scull, 3) fist, 4) one-arm *
2x400 as 300 pull w/paddles/100 back, 30" *
c/d - 2x25 back/25 breast/50 free
Total: 3000m
* Missed 100m of scull and 100m of first paddle set for coaching
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