My first real sled dog practice!

As usual, Saturday was a "race pace" set.  While I was looking at the workout before practice.  There were only two paths:

• A "100m" practice aimed at the Sprinters,  it involved buckets/power-rack and bands.
• A "400m" practice that all the MD and D guys

I had a chance to take what I considered the easy way out, and go with the typical 100m workout.  At that point I noticed that the 400m set was essentially a threshhold set.  Twice in the set we were supposed to hold 8 x 50m to add up to a 400m time.  Those two sets were split with a 372m swim.  That particular swim was meant to aim at a 400m pace but without the hardest last 28 meters.  I chose the 400m workout.  I'm very glad I did

I did not excel in the workout.  I was among the slowest in the pool actually but I felt GREAT after the workout.  I yearn for a higher workload and I got that today and more.

I have a chance to swim a masters meet at EMU tomorrow (long course).  I'm up very late working and will only get about 3 hours of sleep if I choose to go.  Although I've raced on even less rest, I'm not very motivated to race.  I'm really feeling like I just got back from Omaha and the best meet of my life.  There is nothing I can prove at EMU this weekend that could possibly exceed what I accomplished last week in Nebraska.  I will be overtired and run down from a week of training and a lot of manual labor on Saturday.

Historically I have attended this meet for years.  I'm not happy that I missing it but I think it is the right decision to rest up instead.