It was a cold and drizzly morning. Well, it was drizzly anyway. The swim was good and fun. I found out that on Wednesday, they did a timed 2000 straight swim, I’m glad I missed that. I would’ve been bored to tears had I been there for that. We did one of my favorite type of sets, a pyramid of 50s. The first time around, we did the intervals thusly 55-50-45-40 3 times through. We did a bit of kicking, then we did …

This morning’s swim was quite relaxing. It was a nice long stroke swim. The main set, consisted of some 50s where we counted our strokes and tried to descend both the total strokes and our total time to swim the distance. I really enjoy these kinds of workouts since they allow you to focus on your technique more than the “regular go far and go fast” workouts allow.
Noteworthy:I got it down to where I was taking 9 strokes per lap, for a total of 18 strokes per …