Even without Wade and his son, we still had 14 people tonight. That’s a good group. We even had a full spectrum of skill levels. The drawback to having such a large group is that I can’t tell you all the people that were there tonight. I doubt I even saw all of them. But I can tell you that one of my neighbors showed up. We may even wind up car pooling with him at some point.

For most the night, I was in the Axe Grinder lane with Andrea, Chelsea, and Sabrina. We were doing backstroke drills and I want to point out that the Axe Grinder is not the best lane for that type of activity. Several drills required us to circle clockwise (swimmers usually circle counter-clockwise), which put us going down against the wall, then trying to push off the back wall without hitting the ladder, which is next to the lane-line. This usually meant someone would push off from about the middle while those coming down were trying to avoid grinding their fingers off against the wall (also coming down the middle)… it wasn’t pretty. I saw Andrea and Chelsea collide, and I smacked into Andrea, and I hit someone (still not sure who) when I pushed off once. But we managed to survive.

Warm-Up (600):
3 x ( 4 x 50 sculling and pulling (1/4, 1/2, 3/4, all sculling) )

Main Set (1800):
4 x 50 backstroke kicking one-arm streamline on 1:20 with fins
4 x 50 double-arm backstroke on 1:20 with fins
4 x 50 backstroke “swim the rope” (use the lane-line to pull faster) on 1:20 with fins
4 x 25 full-stroke backstroke on 0:30 with fins
4 x 50 backstroke kicking one-arm streamline on 1:00 with fins
4 x 50 double-arm backstroke on 1:00 with fins
4 x 50 backstroke “swim the rope” on 1:00 with fins
4 x 25 full-stroke backstroke on 0:30 with fins
16 x 25 freestyle kick on 0:45 (no fins)