Race Distance

Today I swam 1900y.

During the main set, I was to swim 3x500 increasing my speed and effort as I went. I found this to be very helpful. I feel like I am getting stronger overall and that I am in a better place mentally and can digest the swim without freaking out (as much).

The first set was good. I swam the full 500 with a good, steady cadence. I tried to think a little faster each 100. By the last 100 I was going pretty quickly, but I figured I could go harder. After a minute of rest, I tried it out.

The second set I worked too hard. Started too fast and continued to speed up. I got to 300 and started to panic, but made myself try to stay consistent. Instead of thinking about how fast I was going, I refocused on my breathing and tried to breath out more. This helped.

One minute later, I did my third set. By this time I was a bit tired (especially after the fast 2nd set) and my poor nutrition had crept up on me. I probably did this set a little faster than the first set, but didn't finish as fast.

I was having a hard time feeding myself this evening. Not sure what's up with that, but I had some sort of mental block against good nutrition tonight. That ended up sucking. Oh well, 100y to cool down and I was out of the pool. Lessons learned.