Yards, my old friend!

It's been months since we've trained short course yards rather than long course meters.  This week we swam 3 days with the pool swapped over to SCY.  I've enjoyed the change of scenery.  Since the tiles on the bottom of the pool are rectangles, I've gotten to experience an entirely new perspective of them.  No longer are they so tall, but they seem so wide the past few days.  Since there are also 4 walls in the natatorium, while breathing to my left and right, I discovered two walls I had no idea existed until Wednesday.  Really quite exhilarating.

We did a few short kick sets this week.  Most of which I held my own.  They were all on short rest, my best being a 1:04.2 from a push with less than :30 seconds rest. To this day I've never broken 1:00 in a 100 yard kick.  Someday I will.

My moment to shine this week was a great 200 I had against all the sprinters.  The result was not that I won, but how close I was to them all, while swimming backstroke.  We had just finished up a hard set and to finish it off, we put on paddles and fins and were directed to swim a 200y for time.  I was feeling pretty good and I knew I might be able to hold my own for a bit.  I worked the underwaters quite a bit and lead the entire field of 10 sprinters for 125 yards.  I ended up taking 5th out of the group while everybody else was swimming freestyle, I touched in a 1:38 or so (from a push).  I was pretty close to the first place finisher as well.  The fact that I was that close to the leader at the touch put a smile on my face.  Every once and a while I have a good set :)