Tonight started with 6 x 150 kicking with fins (150 fly, 150 back, 150 free, repeat) getting 10 seconds rest. By the end of the warm-up, we had 10 people! It’s always more fun with more people. There was a girl there tonight that had really good technique and was really fast. I didn’t catch her name, but the rumour is that she swam for BYU. It wouldn’t surprise me.

The second part of our warm-up consisted of 3 sets of 4 x 25 free on 0:40. We did these fast-slow, slow-fast, slow-slow, and fast-fast, then repeated. The fast-slow after the fast-fast was the killer. Even though we got the maximum amount of time to rest after the fast-fast 25, we were still breathing really hard when it was time to start off fast again. I guess this goes to show that we’re not really in good shape just yet, either that or we were really pushing hard on those fast segments. I’m betting on the former.

After warm-up we worked on our backstroke flipturns once again. We started off doing backstroke from the middle of the pool to the middle of the pool with a flipturn halfway through. We must not have done a good enough job (I missed the wall completely on one of them), so we switched to swimming freestyle to the wall, flipping over and staying on our back, then swimming back to the middle of the pool on our backs.

We’re all fairly competitive, so the flip-turn exercise quickly turned into a competition. Coach Durant reorganized our lanes into teams he said were fairly close and we did a couple relays. The first relay was freestyle. I led our lane off and did really well. I think I may have even surprised some people with my speed. Our lane won that one easily. The next one was a full 50. 25 free, flip to your back, 25 back. I lead off again, but it was a lot closer. We still built a sizeable lead, so coach had some people in the other lane leave a few seconds early to even things out, but we still won (thanks to the amazing speed of the new girl).

Our main set was all about fly. Luckily we’re still using fins for a lot of this or I certainly would have died. I felt like I got close enough as it was.

4 x 25 fly drill with fins (left, together, right, together) on 0:40
4 x 50 dolphin kick with fins on our back on 1:00
4 x 100 fly drill with fins (3 left, 3 right, 3 together) on 1:40

After that first set, we were so dead that he let us swim our next set of 4 x 25 all freestyle.

4 x 25 free easy with fins on 0:40
4 x 50 dolphin kick with fins on our back on 1:00
4 x 100 fly drill with fins (3 left, 3 right, 3 together) on 1:40

We finished up with an easy 200 free pulling.