3200 (45400)

200 swim (warmup)
200 pull (warmup)
100 kick (warmup)
8 x 50, even kick / odd drill (back/free/fly/breast) on 1:00
400 pull
400 negative interval
200 non-free (back)
100 fly kick fast
400 negative interval
250 non-free (back)
200 negative interval
100 fly kick fast
150 pull (warmdown)
200 back (warmdown)
4 x 25 fly recovery on :30 (warmdown)

Total: 3200

General feeling of the day: ARGH.

We had snow last night, which means my drive to the pool this morning was the "taking your life into your own hands" sort. Which means a) not fun, and b) I was late. Shock and awe.

I had the late hockey game last night (9:30), so I wasn't in bed until midnight, and I woke up at 4:00AM for some reason, so when the alarm went off at 5:00 I really, really considered rolling over and going back to bed for another two hours. Plus Jeff (the boyfriend) is off on Mondays now, so he was still up and watching the 2003 World Series (of all things) on TV, and the idea of curling up on the couch with him was pretty appealing too.

But I swam anyway.

Holy cow, though, it was irritating today. That main set up there (starting at the 400 pull and ending at the warmdown) is nothing like what our coach wrote on the whiteboard for several reasons. The most prominent of those is that Laurie can't count/remember directions, and the other gal who was in our lane today was really slow, and kept stopping on random 25s.

Laurie was driving me bonkers. She can't count on good days, but she was really off today. And she ends up leading most of the time because she's the fastest swimmer in our lane. Because of the counting issues, we lost 100 pull, a 200 negative split, and about 150 non-free. We ended right at 7:00 before the warm down, so we wouldn't have finished the set anyway, but it was making me crazy.

Also crazy making are the people who can't/don't want to swim the freestyle sets. It's really, really hard for me to make a 400 negative split when my lanemates are randomly switching to backstroke or breaststroke in the middle of a set. Maybe it's because of the order I learned my strokes in, but freestyle is by far my fastest, so it always confuses me when people would rather swim breaststroke or fly or something. Those strokes kill me, and they are so slow it's not even funny.

Blah blah blah. I didn't plan those 25 fly recovery sets, but when I got done messing with my backstroke, Leigh Ann and Evan were doing them and Leigh Ann invited me to do them too. The way they work is that you start with three strokes fly, then finish the 25 with freestyle. You do four 25s that way, then you do four 25s with four strokes fly, then with five strokes, all the way to seven. I, obviously, only did the three strokes set, partially because it was getting late and I needed to get to work, and partially because I was tired.

Still tired, still sore, but I'm going to stroke clinic anyway because I have to miss it on Wednesday to go to the dentist. Woo. :p