Well, what a difference a day makes…
I can’t honestly claim I was really feeling up for it today, but I just got in the pool, got on with my 50m reps and kept getting below my target time. Even when I had a couple of turns blocked by other swimmers I still made the target which was as much surprising as it was pleasing. The times were:
42.11, 42.78, 42.11, 42.19, 41.72, 42.54, 42.42, 42.91, 42.37, 41.94, 41.22, 41.80, 42.20, 41.45, 41.37, 41.36
which averages at 42.03. The only time I’ve gone faster was off a longer rest interval or when I’ve had failures, so I’m really pleased with that. It does mean that when I go next I shall be knocking another five seconds off the rest interval though. The last time I did that was 1st December, so it’s taken two months (albeit with very little swimming over the Christmas/New Year period) to get back to the level I was at before I last reduced the rest interval. There’s still a fair way to go yet — I’d really like to be repping these off 70 seconds, but one step at a time 🙂
Perhaps just as surprising was the fact that I didn’t really pay for the performance when it came to the 25m reps either. Ok, so I was absolutely dying by the time I finished (and I ran out of time to complete the last two reps), but my first was 17.56s and eight were in the mid-18s. I can’t be unhappy with that.