Swimming, 6th January 2022

I have to admit that I really wasn’t feeling keen on swimming today. It may just be a reaction to the Covid booster that I had on Tuesday, but I was feeling quite tired. It never feels as bad as when you’re contemplating not going though, so I dragged myself off to the pool and whilst it was hard work, I think it was definitely useful.

My 50m reps were pretty much on the pace I’d want, though I had some failures and quite early on too, with my first coming on rep nine. I’m happy to see the pace coming back up, but not happy to go backwards in terms of the first failure. Hopefully I can improve on that next time.

My 25m reps were close to the pace I’d like to see, but towards the middle of the set I began to wonder if my head position might be a little too high. I suspect that having a raised head creates a larger bow wave, causing more drag as my head has to push water upwards, and allows my hips to drop slightly as my body rotates about the centre of buoyancy, again creating more drag. I spent the remainder of the set deliberately trying to lower my head a little beyond what felt normal and it did appear to result in an increase in speed. I think I probably need to experiment a bit more with this. Sometimes it would be great to have a video so I can compare how things look, but in a public pool that’s just not going to happen.

Overall though, I’m looking forward to my next session (on Sunday if everything goes to plan).

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