Great Practice!

I had a great practice yesterday. I did a great sprint kick set and decided to do some all out 50's for time with a minute rest. The results were great, I was going 28.xx from a push which represents the fastest I've ever gone in practice for a long course 50 meters. I think I needed to prove this to myself after my backstroke event this past weekend. This simple set proved to me that I have the speed, I'm faster now than I ever have been. The only challenge is converting that speed and harnessing in a race. Reviewing the video from this weekend (which I still haven't gotten around to posting) it seems to me that the effort was there but I wasn't catching water. Yesterday I played around with slowing my stroke down and stretching it out. I had very good results with this technique, it yielded faster 50 times and I wasn't as tired at the end of the sprint. I'll be doing more of these in the next few weeks.

I had mediocre practice this morning. It was just one of those days where I didn't feel like jumping in the water. I only did 1,000 LCM, which might be my shortest practice ever but I just wasn't feeling it. I'll be back in the pool later today to have a great workout!