Todays session in the pool was pretty much one non stop swim session. I was iinterrupted after a few hundred yards and asked to switch lanes, but other than that, I wanted to just swim nonstop.
The other weekend, I went for a swim in the lake and went for only about 15-20 minutes before being tired out and calling it a day. I thought I had been using the same form (based on Total Immersion) that I used last year, and was a little confused as to why I could only swim for 15 minutes. A couple days later, I went to the pool and remembered some important concepts from TI, and noticed an immediate difference. So todays session had two goals - see about swimming a long enough distance so that I would feel comfortable with next weekends half mile swim, and try and get some time in to help with muscle memory.
Below are the stopwatch times for each 50 yds (unless otherwise noted).
49.9 (50)
52.5 (50)
56.1 (50)
59.5 (50)
59.7 (50)
1:01 (50)
57.6 (50)
1:40.5 (50 - interrupted)
1:51.1 (100)
57.9 (50)
56.0 (50)
55.5 (50)
55.2 (50)
1:00.1 (50)
1:02.8 (50)
1:04.6 (50)
59.0 (50)
57.2 (50)
1:05.8 (50)
59.1 (50)
59.5 (50)
1:01.4 (50)
1:01.6 (50)
53.8 (50)
There was some variation in time as I was toying around with different things, 6 beat kick vs 2 beat (I seem faster with the lazy six beat kick), but all in all, I was pretty close to 1 sec/yard from beginning to end.
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