100 Race Pace Today

All the post grads wish we could swim more LCM but yet again, the college team was the priority, and understandably so.  We wouldn't even have a pool to swim in if it wasn't for the University of Michigan.  Therefore our set today was SCY.

3 x

50y Dive @ 1:00
2 x 25y push @ :30
25y easy @ :45
25y Dive

500y easy

A growing concern of mine is that it takes me at least 1 round to warm up.  My first round of every race pace set is really poorly excecuted and slow.  I honestly can't remember if I was always like that.  I know in college I got faster as the set went on but I can't remember if my first round or first few swims were slow. I find the same issue applies to my meets.  It always seems like I need one swim to warm me up for subsequent swims.  This is especially concerning since I need to be 100% at the U.S. Olympic Trials Prelims to even have a chance at a semi-finals swim.

My first round was:

25.44
12.8
13.6
12.6 

My last round was:

24.56
11.5
12.3
11.9

The middle round split the difference on all the times.  I could have done another round after, it was a short set and we were out of the pool in less than 2 hours.