Posted by heathweaver

Ever feel a bit sick, a bit tired, and a bit unmotivated and then really tear shit up? That is the perfect sentiment for today swim. I can tell a cold is sneaking up on my nose and my motivation seemed to be heading in the other direction. Getting into the pool I felt like I wanted to take it easy and see if I could swim in a non-aggressive way. After a while of that I started to work on my keeping my stroke rate as low as possible. After swimming for about 20 minutes I tried to push myself a little faster and saw that my lap time was around 17 seconds.

When I saw that time I knew with a block start I could knock a couple seconds off my time. In addition to beating my previous fastest time I broke 16 seconds, which was a mental hurdle for me. To make the sprint more difficult because when I hit the water my goggles folded back and I couldn’t see a thing. It felt really good, but a bit like I was really lacking any kind of technique, but I guess all the meters of focusing on technique must have some effect, right?