I’m guessing I didn’t fully recover from all the fly we did 2 days ago, because tonight was really rough for me… and there’s no good reason for it. The only good part of the night (for me) was the very end when we had an underwater distance swimming competition doing breast stroke pull-downs. On the very last one, I swam a full 50 without coming up. That earned us an additional 2 doughnuts, so we’re now up to 5.

The high school swimmers that have been swimming in the lanes next to us are done for the year. They have their Region competition this week and then State competition after that. It’s a good thing, too, because we had 12 people tonight. A new girl named Sabrina who used to swim for Lone Peak High was there, and she was fast. The ex-BYU swimmer was also back. I think her name is Jann. Next week we should have even more, as Charmaine says Mark is going to join us as well.

I didn’t have a very good practice overall. The beginning was especially rough, and by the time we were doing the 6 x 150 free set, I could barely recover my arms in front of me. It was pretty pathetic. Maybe I’m slightly sick. It seems everyone else at my work has been *really* sick lately. Multiple people have missed 4 days or more. I haven’t missed any, and I think I owe a large part of my health to swimming. Hopefully I’ll be back to normal by next week.

Warm-up:
2 x ( 200 free, 50 fly drill, 50 back drill ) with fins
3 x 50 free on 1:00 – 25 easy, 25 fast
3 x 50 free on 1:00 – 25 fast, 25 easy
1 x 50 free – all out
4 x 25 stroke drill choice on 0:30

Main set:
6 x 150 free on 2:15 (or 10 seconds rest)
4 x 25 stroke drill choice on 0:30

Learning breaststroke pull-downs
6 x 25 breaststroke kick with pull-buoy
breast stroke pull-down distance competition

Next month we will be concentrating on Butterfly. In March we’ll move to Backstroke, and in April we’ll focus on Breaststroke. I don’t know how I’ll make it, but I’m excited to try.