A Kick In The Teeth
This is the pattern for my swimming for the next ten weeks - Monday is a technique session with lots of TI drills, and Wednesday is endurance, adding 100m a week to get me close to full race distance in time for taper.
So today I was doing drills.
Yawn.
Actually, if you interpserse them with some lengths of full stroke, where you can feel the difference whatever you’ve been practicing makes to your swimming, it’s almost fun.
There were some new people in the pool this morning though. And like newbies everywhere, they hadn’t quite figured out where they fitted. So on one of my full-stroke lengths, I made a diversion to swim around Side-Stroke-Very-Slow Man, and found myself following a different black line along the bottom of the pool. The trouble was that I hadn’t realised this, and swam straight into the feet of a woman who was doing some kickboard work.
Funny thing is that I think it hurt her feet more than my face. And I can now confirm that the Aquasphere Vista goggles are indeed ideally suited for open-water swims with mass starts - they didn’t leak at all.
Workout:
- Type: Swim
- Date: 02/08/2010
- Time: 08:58:42
- Total Time: 00:45:00.00
- Calories: 329
- Distance: 997.79 m
- Average Pace: 4:29.51/100m
