Not proud of that practice

Once again I made the mistake of not eating enough before practice.  I had a few sandwiches and I felt shakey during the entire evening workout.  Luckily the team has access to some energy bars, I ate two of those during practice and felt a little better.  We had one of our first yards practices.  It was a set of:

3 x (75y @ 1:30 + 3 x 25y @ :45)

With some easy swimming between rounds.  The first round I swam freestyle.  I was voted into the fastest heat and therefore was swimming against the 3 top sprinters on the team.  During the first 75 yards, I was definitely in 4th but not by much.  I have yet to beat any of these guys doing freestyle.  They are all 19 or low 20 second 50 freestylers.  The 25s were a little ugly, I didn't really hold with the guys, I basically got blown out of the water.  These swimmers can hold it together and still swim fast with only 40 seconds rest.  I have never done well in sets like this.  I swim well on the first one and fall apart afterwards.  Establishing a training base will help with this issue.  The last two rounds were backstroke.  I didn't swim very well on either round and the coaches and other swimmers noticed.  I will do better next time.

I brought in my high speed camera today and the coaches were running around videotaping everybody with big smiles on their faces.  Apparently none of them had seen a camera that could shoot 210+ frames a second in super slow motion.  It's one of my coolest toys :)

In heartbreaking news, I ripped one of my fins today.  It's one of my first disapointments with Speedo.  The fins are about 3 months old, probably worn less than 100 times and they tore down the heel while I was putting them on.  Speedo will be hearing from me.