I don't feel tardy

I begin today's post with a nod to Diamond Dave.

So, full of vim and vigor, I get to begin what will hopefully be a good stretch of consistent swimming up until my first race. This morning was a good session in the pool, but a bit of troubling development at the end.

I had had a good day through all of the workout. Once again, I was leading my lane, and for the most part pulling away (however slightly) from my lanemates. I felt really quite strong. Then, we finished the workout with some hard 100s. About a month ago, at the test day, I was pretty consistently about 1:47 for each 100. Today, I went 1:54, 1:55, 1:54. I recently made a small change to my catch, and it feels like I'm grabbing more water, and am faster through the easy and longer sets, but today I just couldn't get things to work. I was strong through the first 25m, but then, as I got tired, it became much more flailing in the water. If I tried to pick up my turnover, I was just splashing around. If I slowed down to focus on hard pulls, I just couldn't get things moving. Quite disappointing. I don't know if this change to my form is actually slower (contrary to my sensations), or if maybe all this time out of the pool is the culprit. We will have to see what happens next week with two test sessions.

I'm still pretty far from my goal of being able to make sub 2:00/100m my race pace. Luckily, I have time to make things right.

Swim: w/u - 200m each, free, pull, non-free
4x50 drill/50 free, 10" (fist, scull, forearm flop, thigh scrape)
300 pull as 75 ez/25 quick, 30"
3x100 pull w/paddles, 20"
300 as 100 ez back/200 ez pull
6x100, 30" (odd: hard, even: ez breast)
c/d - 100 free, 2x50 free/50 back
Total: 2800m