I’ve commented before on how some days you feel that it’s going to be a good session and get out of the pool feeling as though you’ve failed to perform whereas others you’re really not into it but things turn out unexpectedly well. Today was one of the latter. As we left for the pool (my last swim with my son before he goes back to university) I really wasn’t feeling that it was going to be a good day. My shoulders felt tired and I just wasn’t in the right place mentally. Once I’d got in the pool and warmed up bit things started to change.
The first few of my 50m reps weren’t all that, to be fair, but then I found the groove and I was happily hitting the times I wanted to see with the exception of one where there was some congestion at the wall when I wanted to turn. I would have had one failure in the first five reps, but as they don’t count I ended up with none. I was very pleased with that.
I think the 50s had taken it out of me a little and the 25m reps were really tough as a result. I ended up with two failures there any no-one to blame but myself. I can be happy with that though. It’s hard to perform well in both sets. It might be interesting one day to reverse the sets and see how I can do on the 25m reps when fresh, but for reasons I can’t really explain the 50m set feels more important to me.
Let’s just hope I can keep it up next time.