Group Swim Training - June 10th

I won't say I had fully recovered from the weekend race, but I was feeling a lot better. Our training was at my least favorite high school, and to make matters worse, the off ramp for the exit I needed to get off at was blocked. I saw a lot of smoke, so I am assuming something was on fire. I was running late, and all this additional aggravation was not helping.

In any case we started out with our usual 200 yd warm up, and the coach informed us the swim training today was going to be a little easier than usual (not that anyone of us believed him)!

We ended up doing sprint drills, going from one side to the next as fast as we could, and then the same thing back. After a few runs, it felt like my heart was going to pop out of my chest, but I do know I was going really fast. If I could race at this pace, I would be done in about 15 mins in the actual race! ;)

We then did 75 yd drills with alternating speeds on each length, and this is where disaster stuck for me. I was in a separate lane, but I was focusing so much on speed, that I drifted out of my lane, into the oncoming lane, and I hit Bora head on!

It won't be the first time we have had a collision, but it sure did not make it any better. My head was still vibrating from the impact, and we both had a bump on our heads to prove it. It took a little while for me to get back into the swim routine, but this time I was much more cautious about what I was doing. Maybe it was an important lesson learnt, but not one I necessarily need to go through again.

I am sure by the time we got done with our swimming, we had done more than a mile, but I think we have quit counting that anymore.

The fun part of the evening was that we were given our tri shorts and singlet we had ordered a couple of months ago. The top seemed to be a little loose, but then again I had probably lost some weight since I last tried them.

Either way, I look forward to wearing them during our upcoming open water swim, should be interesting to see how it feels under the suit.