I got what I asked for

Today I was prepared for a "Recovery" workout as the weekly schedule indicated.  After a 15 minute stretching session and a 15 minute ab session we all came down to the pool deck to get ready to swim.  I headed over to the sprint workout as usual when I was headed off by head coach Mike Bottom.  He directed me to the Middle Distance group!  I was both excited and a bit frightened.  The change represented a workload increase but it's exactly what I've been hoping for.  As the sprinters flopped around in the diving well for 1.5 hours, the MD group got beat up for 2 hours, and I loved every second of it.  I was pushed to my limit, over and over.  A feeling I haven't had in a while.  It was great.  I didn't excel in the group and I'm entirely ok with that.  The challenge was great.