Back in the Pool

I took the week off because it was a short week (President's day), I was close to max vacation, and I wanted to really focus on training. I decided that I would swim everyday and try and either run or ride as well. I finally made it back to the NASA pool for swimming and tonight was training with the team.

I've not been swimming with the team in weeks due to a really hectic schedule. I thought my form was really improved and even Coach Megan commented that I was looking great. We did several warm-up laps. Then we did 4x of drill exercises (2 regular stroke laps, 1 drill of choice, 1 kick only). "Okay time for practice" says the coach. "Uh....What?"

So lets just say, I was tired already. Now each lane team had to swim in pairs to other side. We staggered kickoffs and when we all made it to the other side we headed back. The goal was to do as many laps as we could before sprints. "Uh.... What?"

I tried to keep my form the entire time. That was my goal, along with limiting the amount of time I took for rests. I, surprisingly to myself, was doing really well, typically catching the pair in front of me. All together we did about 11-12 laps. Coach Megan assured me that now that my form was good, endurance was all I needed now.

I had a great time swimming with the team. It seems, like running, I do much better when I'm with someone else. I think I'm not able to motivate myself and only need a bit of peer pressure to push myself across the finish line. Anybody want to run?