Curiouser and curiouser, said Alice…
I wasn’t expecting much today having had another poor night’s sleep as well as my muscles still feeling a bit tired from yesterday. There were three other people in the lane, one of whom in all honesty probably shouldn’t have been there and came close to having a couple of nasty accidents, but sometimes people just won’t see sense. I started off with a 43-second 50m rep, and after I’d stopped to replace my eyeballs from where they’d popped out, I had a 44, a 46 and then settled down to steady 45-second reps, even when I couldn’t tumble because of the slow swimmer getting in the way. I had one more 44 and one 46 when I got my foot placement wrong in the turn and slipped on the wall, but nothing slower.
After a few minutes rest I swam the rest of the session out with 25m reps and managed two in eighteen seconds into the bargain.
I’m certainly very happy, but also genuinely baffled as to what I am doing differently that has improved my performance so obviously. If I knew, I’d do it more 🙂
Anyhow, having managed the 50m set on a 90 second interval twice on the trot, on Monday I shall knock another five seconds off and see how it goes. I can’t help feeling it’s going to go pear-shaped at some point 🙂