Every couple months we subject ourselves to a 30 minute time trial. The goal is just to swim as far as you can in 30 minutes. Coach Durant was hoping for a good turnout for the time trials, and he got what he wanted tonight. I believe our final count was 13. We had 3 new people. One of them was a 16-year-old kid that warmed up in the Axe Grinder lane with me and Jeff, but then he moved over with the 2 new girls for the time trial.

I really wanted to know my time at the 400, 800, and 1650 marks. I remember that I looked up at the clock to see my times at each of those intervals. I even remember that I was happy with my times, but I don’t remember what the clock said at 400 and 800, but my 1650 time was 20:48. I guess it’s possible that I was off by 50 (making it a 1600), but I was still happy.

Jeff was in my lane and he was clicking the lap button on his stopwatch each 50. He ended up with 36 laps and I passed him 4 or 5 times. Andrea and Chelsea were in the lane next to us and they were really doing well. I think I only passed Andrea 3 times, and she stayed right with me the last 200 or 300. It was all I could do to pull away as the clock ran down. You couldn’t ask for a better group to swim with!

Warm-Up (2000):
8 x 100 pull (75 free, 25 sculling)
1 x 200 easy
4 x ( 4 x 25 (free, scull, free, back) on 0:40 )
6 x 100 free on 2:00 (2 x white, 2 x pink, 2 x white)

Main Set (2200):
1 x 2100 on 30:00 (time trial)
1 x 100 easy