Today is an easy week. My legs are getting a break before I begin my first proper build of the year but the arms are getting no such luxury. I've found that after 12 straight weeks of swimming 6 times a week totalling about 20k a week in the pool I've made what could, at a stretch, be called a break through. To use a topical comparison, it feels very much like yesterday's announcement that we are out of recession... by 0.1% The improvement is tentative, could be revised at any moment in a downwards direction and, most importantly, there's still a hell of a long way to go, but none-the-less, improvements have been noted. My 100s have hit 1:24, my cruising pace is now somewhere around the 1:45/100 and I can actually hold my form for upwards of 5k.
This "rest" week challenge to try and hit 30k in the pool, something I have never achieved before, it'll take 8 swims of between 3.2k and 5.5k including some damn hard sets. Will I survive? Not sure, only time will tell but to even be thinking about having a go is testament to the improvement I've seen in recent weeks/months and takes me just a small step closer to my goals of being well under 60 minutes at Roth.
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