HUGE Time Drop! Best Animal Kick Ever!

We had some free time this morning as part of our "recovery" workout therefore I decided to try an animal kick for the first time in 7 months.  I began with the mindset of "I'll see how the first one goes and decide if I'll finish it"... it was a silly thought pattern since I always feel great on the first one but it made me stick with the set after I began with an EASY 1:10 kick.

To bring the beginners up to speed, an "Animal Kick" is a set from my EMU days where we kicked 10 x 100's yards on the 1:30 best average.

Today the breakdown was:

1:10
1:08
1:07
1:07
1:07
1:08
1:09
1:09
1:10
1:08

With an overall average of 1:08.3!  That represents a 3.5 second drop from February when I kicked 1:11.8!  I've NEVER been this fast in my entire life.  I've also never broken a 1:10 average!  This benchmark means a lot to me since I'm a backstroker who needs improved underwater kicking.  I'm really looking forward to the Milan meet this weekend even though I'm quite run down.

Health wise, I got over being sick in 2 days flat... sort of crazy.  It felt like a cold but it ran it's course VERY quickly.  Either my body took that virus down like a champ in 2 days or it wasn't actually a cold.  Either way, I'm feeling much improved.  My neck is still very sore but I'm stretching it multiple times a day to work it out.  Otherwise feeling great!