Fun times at Masters

Now that I have had two cups of coffee I feel pretty good this morning but man last nights masters class was fun. I love Monday's as it is distance night, my quads usually aren't dead tired from CT class the day before and we usually swim around 4500 yards.

Last night we mixed some stuff up. I had lead on the first set which was some number of 200's why Keating was on his usual 20 minutes into class potty break in my new lane and I look at the time as we are turning for the first 100, 1:11 whoops a little fast so I slow it down a bit. The next one I tried to maintain a consistent speed, seemed to work out alright wasn't totally winded but seemed like a good effort. After the 200's, Coach Sue decides to put me in the other lane so Rick can suffer and I can lead one lane and Brian can lead the other lane. That is a really bad idea, I admit I like to find someone who is faster and try to hang with them. Tonight this was Keating, last year it was Pour and because of this I think it has helped my swimming a ton. My goal the entire set of 300's and 400's was to not let Keating get that far ahead and if close try to catch him on the last 50. Yes, the 400 was a challenging effort but it was fun. I do think somewhere on the workout it did say something about 75% but it also had a 90% on there as well. Really is there that much difference in the pool between 75% and 90%, not for me. Now 90% and 50%, I can see that. I think I really have three speeds, 50%, 90% and all out (which only really lasts for 100 maybe with a high chance of foot or leg cramps).

So needless to say I think last nights swim was a good wake up and was one of those workouts where you know you did some solid efforts.

This weekend I am running a local 10K here in Naperville, considering the half-ass approach I have been taking to running lately should be interesting. I have a goal time so we will see how it works out. That be an eye opener though on where I need to put in some solid work.