The night started with coach Durant telling me he thinks I should train to compete in the 1650 (1 mile) event at some future masters swim meet. I told him I used to be a sprinter and that I doubt I’d be very competitive in the mile, but he thinks I may. Who knows? I have been feeling pretty good when we swim longer distances.

I swam in lane 1 tonight. I’ve decided to start calling it the Axe Grinder, because when I swim on my back I inevitably wind up grinding my left hand against the wall at some point. Jeff and Chelsea were also in the Axe Grinder lane, but they didn’t have quite as much trouble as I did. Actually, one of them did complain about hitting their hand on the ladder in the middle of the pool. I think that counts. But hey, at least we didn’t have to fight with the SCUBA team.

There were 4 people in lane 2. Leading that lane was Sabrina. She’s only 20 years old and still really fast. She killed me on the kicking sets, but I stayed ahead of her on the fly sets. We both knew the other was trying to win, so we wound up pushing a little bit harder than we would have otherwise. That’s what it’s all about.

Warm-Up (1000):
400 free
300 kick choice with fins
200 free pull
100 back

Main Set (1650):
6 x 50 fly kick on our back, hands down on 0:45 with fins
5 x 100 free on 1:40 (2 white, 2 pink, 1 red)
6 x 25 on 0:30 drill choice
6 x 25 fly drill on 0:40 (3 kicks underwater, 1 full stroke) with fins
6 x 25 fly drill on 0:45 (1 left, 1 full, 1 right, 1 full) with fins

We worked on open turns for about 15 minutes

4 x 25 hammer-down drill (12.5 race-pace, 10 seconds vertical kicking with arms raised high, 12.5 race-pace)
4 x 25 hammer-down drill with fins
2 x 100 (75 pull, 25 scull)