Today's lesson

Guess what? If you do a bunch of work, with a portion of it pretty hard, you'll get tired, and won't be able to work as hard. That's what I learned this morning. Not that this is an earth-shattering revelation, or that I didn't know it before, but there was solid evidence of this phenomenon this morning.

I got to lead all sets today, since the people who I usually trade with weren't here. No draft for me, which makes for a tough day. During our main sets, we did timed 100s. My times (which are notably NOT Olympian): 1:47, 1:48, 1:50, 1:56. Pretty good for the first three, then a collapse. At about the 75m mark, I felt like I came to complete stop, and nothing could get me moving. I was cooked. But it was a great workout, lots of fun, and, as always, I'm counting on this for more huge improvements.

Swim: w/u - 200m free, 100 back, 100 breast
2x25 head-up/25 ez, 15"
4x50 swim golf (scores between 102-106)
4x(300 drill, 30"
100 timed free, 30"
50 breast/50 back, 15")
Drills: 1) 50 quick turnover/50 ez, 2) gloves, 3) finger paddles, 4) free
c/d - 100 free, 100 back, 100 breast
Total: 3000m

After work I'll go for a quick run, so I'll write it down now.
Run: 3 miles @ 7.0 mph

Looking at the times now, I now part of it was fatigue, but I notice that during swim golf, I was doing each 50m in 50-53 seconds, at about 90% effort. I'm surprised, then, that I was no better than 1:47 for a 100% effort 100m. It definitely might be a case that when I try too hard, I'm actually slower from a more frantic stroke. I'll have to check this out at my next opportunity.