It was a weird morning in the pool today. I felt pretty good, maybe a little tired in the legs from last night's run, but that should hardly impact my swimming, right? The warm-up went well, and I was strong through our first big set. Then, during some timed 200s, I just couldn't get things going, at least not to the level I would expect. I felt like I was going hard, maybe 95% of max for that distance, but the clock kept moving faster than it should. I don't know if maybe I pushed too hard during our drafting set, when I took an extra turn by joining the middle of the group to help bridge a gap, or if my minor form changes haven't kicked in yet to greater speed. All I can do is keep grinding, there's about 9 weeks left to get better.
To console myself, I did do a little math to better come to grips with the differences in speed. To go from 2:00/100m to 1:50/100m (where I'd prefer to be), which doesn't seem like a big difference (10 seconds), is about an 8% increase in speed. For running, that would be like going from 8:00/mile (my Disney marathon speed) to 7:15/mile. That's a pretty significant jump. So I have to live with increases in the 1-2 sec/100m range, just nibbling my way to faster times. As long as I can go sub-40 (maybe sub-38) in September, everything will be fine.
Swim: w/u - 200m each free, non-free, pull
1000 free, drafting, change lead every 50m (7 in group, took 4 pulls)
5x200, 30" (1&5 - ez non-free, 2-4 - timed free (3:43, 3:55, 3:47))
800 pull, negative split (8:05/7:45)
Total: 3400m
Run: 5 miles @ 7.5 mph + 4 strides
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