Hard hurts

When you go hard early in a workout, and by hard, I mean "all-out", everything slows down for the rest of the day. It's your body's way of saying, "You make me suffer like that? Screw you, we quit."

That was the story of the day, but considering that the all-out part was a PB, I can live with that. After that, just getting some hard work in was enough. After warm-up, to honour the Olympics, we did a full-bore 100m, then after an easy 100, we did 200m. Those guys competing for medals are going about 47 seconds for 100, and 1:43 for 200. I'll be lucky to get within double those times, but I'll give it my best. I hit 1:32 for 100, which is a new record. I expected a bit faster, but I know I let form slip away between the 60-80m marks. My pacing for 200m was horrible, but I still got a personal best: 3:28. I was all over the place on this one, going hard, having to scale back to catch my breath, and going hard again. Not a model attempt, but I'll live with it.

The rest of the day was some easy stuff when I tried to focus on my form, and harder efforts where I dug out what I could. With five weeks to get things together, I just need to keep getting the metres. All the rest will work itself out.

Swim: 200m each free, non-free, pull
500 as 100 sprint (1:32), 100 ez, 200 sprint (3:28), 100 ez, 1'
500 as 100 ez non-free/150 ez free, 1'
500 free descending, 1'
500 as 25 ez non-free/75 ez free
500 as 100 hard (1:45), 100 ez, 100 hard (1:48), 100 ez, 100 hard (1:45)
Total: 3100m