Cold and messy

There was just nothing good going on with this morning's swim. I got a pretty good night's sleep, so I would have hoped for a better result, but sometimes things don't go according to plan. When I got to the pooldeck, it was freezing. The A/C in the pool was busted, so it should have been boiling, but instead the doors were open and the barely above freezing air was pouring in. So one would think that being the water would be warmer than standing around, but the water was somehow extra cold too. It was more than a little uncomfortable. It was definitely a wetsuit legal pool swim.

Rather than risk getting sick, I decided I'd do the warm-up, then play each section of the workout by ear. If I ever got too cold, I'd end the day. So I got through the first couple of sets, cold but managing, but swimming horribly. Nothing seemed in sync at all. I couldn't get any momentum going, and I felt like crap. We did a timed 200, and I sucked. I made it through a few more pieces before I got out of the water. I couldn't handle doing a second timed 200. It would have been too much of a hit to the confidence. I still got a nice bit of mileage in the water, and that's the main thing. Hopefully I'll get things straightened out on Wednesday. I'm not enjoying this string of "good swim - bad swim" I seem to be on.

Swim: w/u - 200m each free, non-free, pull
500 as 200 ez free/50 hard, 30"
400 pull w/paddles, 30"
300 as 2x(50 ez back/50 ez breast/50 ez free), 15"
200 free, hard, 30"
100 ez non-free, 15"
300 as 75 free/25 head-up, 30"
400 pull w/paddles, 30"
300 as 2x(50 ez back/50 ez breast/50 ez free), 15"
Total: 3100m

Run: 2.5 miles, ez