More Pro's and my latest kick set

Lately I've been a little run down.  I have yet to recover from a kick set last Thursday.  It's been difficult to walk for the past few days.  The set last week involved a lot of Plyometric (jump training) type exercises like jumping out of the pool, jumping in the shallow end and jumping right out of the water again.  Then there was the running and body skipping as well as the attempts to run across the water in addition to a few other drills like all out kicking.  That practice left me a little damaged.

Today we had a kick set that was comprised by only 3 x 50's. They were max effort and included some easy swimming inbetween.  The first one I touched in a 33.9, definitely not my best time but anything under 34 seconds in a long course pool I would consider respectable.  The second was a 33.0 and ranked the fastest but only because the fastest kicker left after the initial swim.  The last one included fins.  Some of the fastest kickers can kick 50 meters with fins and a board in 22 seconds and underwater with fins in 19 seconds... unreal.  Since my fins broke the other day, I chose to kick another one without fins or a board.  My last 50 kick was a 32.2, among the fastest times of the day but still nowhere near the 28.8 the fastest guy went on his first and only 50 kick.  Some of these guys are just unreal fast.

Word on the street is that CW will be gaining some new professional swimmers from around the world to train with us.  The coach was listing off all the existing Pro's and the new Pro's we'll have on the team, most of them Olympians.  At the end of the list he pointed to me and appended my name to the list with a smile.  I'm sure he did so to make me feel included but I'm certain nobody on the team is grouping me with the OLYMPIANS whom I share the pool with.  When he said my name, I let out a little chuckle because it was clearly a joke.  Still, I'll accept even jokingly being included in the same sentence as Olympians!