3400 (11800/64250)

200 swim (warmup)
100 kick (warmup)
100 drill (warmup)
6 x 50 free (from center of pool, flipturns at both walls, three strokes before breath) on 1:05
4 x 200 free on 3:45
4 x 50 kick, 25 free / 25 choice
600 pull
2 x 75, 25 swim/25 drill/25 swim
400 free (7:30)
2 x 100 choice (back/breast)
200 free fast (3:26)
150 pull (warmdown)

Total: 3400

Wow, my lungs hurt right now. Ow.

So today it was just me and Lori (whose name I've been spelling wrong this whole time) in lane one and it was awesome. We split, so we could go our own pace, and even though she was ahead of me most of the set today, I actually felt pretty good about it. Evan timed my last 200, and he said that Lori only beat me by :04 on hers, so yay! He said I did better on the speed part. Which is awesome considering that last 25 I felt like my arms were going to break off. Though I did think about an excerpt from a book that Joel McKenna posted a bit ago about what it feels like to push yourself, and even though I'm not in that much pain, I focused on what I was feeling and burned through it.

I also spent most of that 400 focusing on my breathing, how I paced it, how I rolled my body and how far I tipped my neck to make the whole action more efficient. It was actually feeling really good by the end, and the 7:30 was a time I was happy with (puts my 50s at around :52, which is about right for me on distance).

On those 50s with flip turns I think I was doing pretty close to :52-:53 as well, but holy cow that three strokes off the wall without breathing killed me. I felt like my chest was going to explode afterward, which I think is why my 200s after that suffered. We were supposed to be swimming them on 3:45, and I made the interval all four times, but I ended up having to take an extra 20-30 seconds rest between all but the first and second one.

My whipkick is actually feeling pretty good these days. Lori and I were doing that kick set together and she was doing flutter kick and I beat her to the wall by a good five seconds doing whipkick. My dolphin kick is sloooow. But it's good for my core, so I won't complain (too much).

Blah blah, swimming today actually felt pretty good. Evan only cut 450 yards off the main set for me and Lori, which isn't too shabby. Could really use a nap about now, though, hehe.