I hard the pool to myself at the start of today’s session. I was expecting a tough set, having dropped down from a target time of 55s a week ago to 52s today:
- 400m f/c warm-up
- 24 x 50m f/c, target 52s, turnaround 75s
- 200m swim down
I started out and just didn’t seem to be able to go slower than 50s! Even when I thought I’d slowed the pace a little I was almost always in the 49s. By halfway through I was getting a little concerned that I’d just burn out before the end because I’d gone too fast at the start. I can’t deny that the last three reps were quite tough, but when I got to the last one I pushed on the way back to be sure I made it and still ended up completing it in 47s. I think they must have put something in the water 🙂
I ended up with all but three reps being under 50s, those three being under 51s. I have to admit that I’m slightly bemused. A week ago I’d have struggled with this set and today it really didn’t seem any harder than it was doing reps three seconds slower then.
I’m starting to think that this kind of improvement can’t last and that I’ll have to start working towards improvements of 0.5s at some point soon, but next time at least I’m going to go for a target time of 51s and decide what happens from there when I see how it goes.
USRPT distance this year: 79,800m
Total distance this year: 82,350m