Life in the fast lane

With Monday's swim cancelled for the holiday (and racing), today was my first shot at spending a whole day with my new lane. The thing about this is, the workout I do is now on the "fast" board. See, we have two chalkboards, one that can be seen by lanes 1-3, the other for lanes 4-6. The workouts are generally the same, but the distances are sometime increased for the quicker lanes (3x400m vs. 3x300m, for example). Now I'd be doing this workout right from the top, and having to keep my spot in the lane. It went fairly well, I don't think I threw off the speed of the group too much (if at all).

With race season about to begin, we opened with more OW sprints, but a little different this time. Instead of having almost the whole pool to work with, we had about 15 people between the lane lines (two lanes wide) hammering for the end. I tried to move around a little to be in different situations. The first time, I was mid-pack, and actually started by folding my arms across my chest to protect myself from flailing feet. There was no space to pass, so I just tried to keep my hands from getting broken. Second pass, I started at the front, and took off. No one was close to me, and I "won" the sprint. Three, again I was mid-pack, but found a hole after about 20m and was able to scoot through. The last time, another swimmer requested I swim over her, so I started at the back, and proceeded to slam her legs and arm until I was even with her. At that point, I didn't want to elbow her in the face, so I just moved over to force her off the feet she was trailing and stealing her draft. In its own messed-up way, I guess that was the gentlemanly thing to do.

Swim: w/u - 200m each free, non-free, pull (I was in a wetsuit, so pull would be redundant)
4x50 OW sprint/50 ez free
200 truck and trailer
300 single-partner drafting
200 ez non-free
300 Milton race pace, 1'
200 ez non-free
300 ez pull
300 Muskoka race pace, 1'
200 ez non-free
300 ez pull
Total: 3300m

Run: 4 miles @ 7.2 mph