Day 7: Recap

Well, I get one more day since the coach wasn't present today to continue or end my training with CW Elite.  I would have liked an answer one way or the other, but I'll enjoy one more day training with the team.  In the mean time I'll learn everything I can about swimming at this level.

I've met some nice people in the last week.  The most recent is a very talented sprinter on the team.  Some of these guys swim faster than I can currently fathom.  As I've said many times, it's all relative.  So in relation to me, these guys make me look short, skinny (as in: no muscle) and slow.  I don't know what these people eat to become such massive humans but I'm going to find out.  One important realization I made today is that I can swim JUST as fast as these guys in short distances.  However, after 15 or 25 meters, I start to fall apart and they keep going at that speed.  I don't know how relevant that fact is.  I'm going to remember to ask the coach at some point whether that has any bearing on my long term potential.  I really feel as though (just as Mike Bottom told me the other day) I simply don't have enough strength to swim faster than I do right now.  I need to hit the weights and dryland in a serious way.

Today we were scheduled for the typical 40 minute dryland set but only did 10 minutes of it for some reason.  It was a tough 10 minutes though with constant ab exercises and no breaks at all.  It was followed by some stretching.

The pool workout was a 6,000 meter active rest set.  I hung with the group, at times going 2nd in my lane of 4 guys.  I swam parts of the "specialty stroke" portion of the workout backstroke and when I did, I matched the speed of the other backstrokers in the pool.  It was a successful practice.  I look forward to (perhaps) finding out my fate tomorrow.