Lake Orion Recap

It was an ugly meet.  I just keep getting slower.  I'm not wondering why either.  The quality of my training has taken a nose dive.  I've gone from swimming a solid 6 days a week at a world class facility with great pool availability and balancing a 50 hour work week to 4 days a week in community pools and 100+ hour work weeks.At this point I'm confident  my work schedule is causing my pathetic workouts.  Certainly a nice facility and good hours helps but I doubt that's the main issue here.  I used to MAKE time to swim.  I haven't made it a priority recently. 50 Fly - 23.87
50 Back - 24.23
50 Free - 22.36
100 Back - 54.92Other than being a little run down, I felt fine at the meet.  Sadly, I was actually trying on those swims.  Each 50 was about a full second off my pace and the 100 back was just ugly.  54 high?!  I haven't swam that slow since high school.I had some nice conversations with PSauce prior to and afterward about the importance of racing to maintain the edge in your training.  I believe in benchmarking my progress.  This benchmark just happened to be quite bad.