Race Pace Saturday ended in a 1:00.00 in the 100 Fly

Saturdays are "race pace" a term indicating we will be swimming at the same speed as I would in a meet.  Over the past few days I've realized that warmup at CWelite is the most comprehensive I've ever seen.  The only thing I would change is a bit more kicking.  Frequently this is our warmup (with notes):

400m Swim (take it slow if you want)
300m Social (this is kick, talking to other swimmers is promoted.  Most people kick very slow)
300m IM Kick-Drill-Swim (a 75m of each stroke, great way to mix up muscle warmup)
4 x 100m Free @ 1:30 Orange to Pink (a great set to warm up your stroke and descend your times)
100m Orange (easy swimming)
6 x 50m Dive with 1/2/3 cycles Platinum @ :55 (Warms up your dive and sprint speed, the Platinum is meant to be full race speed)
100m Orange (easy swimming)

Our main set is below.  Initially it looked overly complicated like many of our workouts.  I'm torn on the issue really.  Sometimes I enjoy mixing it up during a workout, other times I would really prefer some structure to a written workout like I had at EMU.

My set ended with a 90m swim from a dive.  About half the swimmers simply finished the 100 meters for a time.  I chose to do the same.  I had done enough backstroke, I flipped over and swam butterfly.  I lead my heat of butterfliers which included 2 NCAA swimmers, one of them being the BIG10 champion in the event.  I touched first in a 1:00.00.  A lifetime best in practice.  I'm often amazed how amazing SCY swimmers really aren't LCM swimmers.  The summer season lets me make that comparison.  I can beat a 44 second butterflier and a 46 second backstroker in LCM swimming.  That just makes no sense to me.  These guys should be trampling me.  Am I really a Long Course Meters swimmer?  Based on my slow flipturns and solid speed through the water, something tells me... yes.

To put things in perspective, Wu Peng, our resident Olympian in the 100m fly, took out his 200m Fly in a 56.8 and touched in a 1:59.  Reminder: This is practice.