Click!

Today I was in the pool simply to loosen up and prevent my muscles from forgetting how to swim. A simple set of ten 200s over lunch fit the bill nicely. I hop in and swim the first one in 2:30 (two minutes, thirty seconds). Based on that, I set the interval for 2:45 and take off fifteen seconds later. It took the second and third to get warmed up, and by number four, I was feeling strong. So strong, in fact, I decided to continue building my effort through number eight and then use the last two as a warm down. The next four swims went as follows:

• #5 -- 2:25
• #6 -- 2:22
• #7 -- 2:19
• #8 -- 2:17

The beauty part was that I swam everyone at a comfortable, strong pace. Something just clicked and I was really strong in the water. I wish I could've stayed longer to continue, but I had to get back to work. Drat. I hope this continues and maybe (fingers crossed?) this spills over into my running.