Posted by heathweaver

Being sick is seriously not fun. I had a week of vacation and I thought I would rest my arms as I had strained my tendons. But then I went and got sick. Ouch, out of the pool for two weeks.

After jumping back in this week I have made a massive un-improvement. In fact, my 25 m swim time is so bad that I have apparently lost 11 weeks of training. I really hope that I will get back to setting records much faster.

We’ll see I guess.

I am going to take this as an opportunity to re-learn a couple of things. The first being my breathing technique. I am going to need to study this one a bit, because I don’t even know where to start. What I do know is that it isn’t my strength keeping me from going, rather I get so out of breath.

The other issue I want to re-learn is my kicking. When I started I told myself that I would learn how to kick after I learned how to use my arms. I think this was a mistake. I should have done both even if it would have taken longer. Kicking correctly is challenging, but it is important and shouldn’t be neglected.

Well, back to it.