Thursday

I did the swim I planned on doing on tuesday



3650yds

200 swim 250 backstroke drills 200 swim

500 8:30

5X100 @ 1:50

400 7:00

4X100

300 5:15

3X100

200 3:30

2X200

100 1:45

100 1:35



All of the 100's I came in at 1:30 to 1:35 and left on 1:50, I was really tired at the end and relied on form to keep the pace up. I seemed to have dropped two strokes per 25 yds in then last few weeks. I've been hitting the wall earlier and not taking the extra breath on the right just before the wall. I was also taking the same number of strokes on the faster 100's as I did on the longer intervals.



Taking the advise that Jason gave me (a great swimmer in my club) I've been working on finishing my stroke at my leg and rotating more to get a longer reach and to reduce drag. It's becomming more and more natural for me to do this.



I've also started to work on the backstroke. The drills I have been doing are shoulder pops, sliding along the lane lines with one arm extended and single arm drills. After I've done those I normally swim about 100yds of backstroke easy, I've been wearing fins for all of this.