Gotta love a good swim session!

Patricia had a power focus in store for me today. After a 500yd warmup (including the 4x25 pull set), she gave me 4x500 pull as #1 - full gear (pads, buoy, band), #2 - pads and buoy, #3 - 10x50 buoy only, descend 1-5 and 6-10, and #4 - buoy only. She followed this with 5x200 freestyle, with the first 100 of each 200 fast and the second easy as active recovery.

This was a great workout. I really let go mentally and just did the work without thinking too much. The 500's were tough (and I'm pretty sure I did some extra 50's in there in the first two sets), but rewarding. The 10x50 descending was tough but rewarding, as well, and I started to feel like I'm reaping some of the benefit of the band-only 25's. The easy 50's were around :47-48, and #5 and #10 were both about :39-40 (which is about as fast as I could do a 50 swimming last year).

The 200's were all about a 3:15 arrival, which isn't bad considering that I really took the easy 100's easy. I got out of the pool pretty wiped and needed a nap mid afternoon, but it was a great feeling to follow up a tough run last night with such a solid swim this afternoon.