Coach Durant is out of town for the state championship swim meet this weekend. Filling in for him was a friend of his that used to swim fro BYU. She did a good job and I think we all worked pretty hard, so as to not let down our real coach.

I was in the Axe Grinder lane again tonight with Jeff and Andrea. Somehow I managed to stay away from the wall. Maybe I’ll become friends with this lane after all. In the next lane over was Steve. He was really working hard tonight. It was all I could do to stay ahead of him on the 9 x 50s we did at the end of our warm-up.

Coach Durant left instructions for us to do the main set without fins unless we couldn’t make the interval. I thought that was a great excuse to just use fins, but Andrea talked me out of it. We only managed to do the first 3 without fins, then finished up with our fins on. Steve did the whole thing without fins. Wow. Between Andrea and Steve challenging me, it’s amazing that I found an excuse to take it easy for the second set of 3 x 200 (I even went last after Jeff and Andrea). I felt bad about that and moved up to second for the last set and then took the very last one as hard as I could. So at least it wasn’t a total slack job. It’s great to have people like Andrea and Steve there to push me so hard.

Warm-Up (1050):
1 x 600 (200 Free, 200 Back, 200 Free-Back: rotating every 5 strokes)
9 x 50 Free on 1:00 (3 x (1 x “smooth”, 1 x medium, 1 x “strong”) )

Main Set (2200):
3 x 200 Free on 3:30 no fins
1 x 100 Easy
3 x 200 Free on 3:30 with fins (i went last and took these a little too easy)
1 x 100 Easy
3 x 200 Free on 3:30 with fins (i went second, second, and then first and pushed it)
1 x 200 Easy