05.21.09 - Comfortably Numb

I made it over the pain hump to the comfortably numb stage. On Monday and Tuesday nights, my back and legs were stinging with all of the fresh acid from ramping up training again. As of this morning, everything feels nicely buffered and will probably stay that way until July sometime.

SCY @Meyers, Lani coached. I swam in the shallow end <5'.

200 K, w/snorks
6 x 50 - 25 body position K on side w/pull buoy in front hand/25 swim
3 x 100 desc @1:35 (1:14, 1:12, 1:10)

6 x 75 K @1:45, 50 fast/25 ez.
I did 2 rounds of dolphin, flutter, breast:
1 - 38, 39, 44
2 - 38, 35, 44

50 ez

5 x 400, thus:
400 - 100 strong/200 DPS/100 strong @5:30
(1st - 1:08, last - 1:09)
400 - 100 fly/300 mod free @6:00
(fly - 1:17)
400 IM @ 6:00
(1:14, 1:23, 1:26, 1:13)
400 - 100 fly/200 mod/100 mod+
(fly - 1:16, last - 1:12)
400 - 100 strong/200 DPS/100 strong
(1:09/1:09)

100 ez

4 x {
50 fast, 25 rec @2:00,
25 fast, 50 rec @2:00
}
(fly - 30.8, 13.7; br - 37.5, 17.7; fly - 30.18, 13.1; free - 28.5, 13.1)

long warm down

Getting my hands narrower sooner in the fly is definitely faster. My fast 50 fly swims felt a lot better. It feels stronger and I can turn it over faster.

On the 100s, it helped but I had to fight to keep my hands from drifting out on the last 25 when I'd get tired. I still have to work on a better glide at the top. I have a tendency to let my hands sweep in slightly right after the entry when I'm trying to lengthen it out (or when I get tired) and then my timing gets off.

On freestly, Lani pointed out that my right hand sweeps out at the top and my left hand sweeps in. This ends up steering me toward the right side of the lane. It also probably explains why I get knots in the muscles in the right side of my back but not my left... So I spent the whole set of 400s focusing on what my hands were doing up there. I had to watch those suckers sometimes to keep them from wandering. Looks like that will be a focus point on my free swims for a while until I get that little kink ironed out.