mile Swim SCY - what is your headset

yikes! i meant 11 x 150's! thanks for spotting my math error!

That's okay, Jim. As long as you're nobody's accountant. :D

I swam a 1500 this weekend, so let me tell you what really went through my head: 1st 500 Dang, I'm hitting my stroke count perfectly Breathing feels awesome and legs are the perfect amount of lightness I don't know why people moan about this race ... it's sublime Somewhere between the 500 and 700 Maybe I should've taken Katie up on her offer to count for me I wish it wasn't so sunny so that I could see the pace clock and then I could figure out where I am in the race Oh crap! I'm supposed to be counting my strokes. Focus, man, focus Precisely at the 750 Mother of god, why didn't I do any situps, crunches or core work this fall? These turns are starting to hurt. Oh crud, my stroke count is now 15 800 Man, it was fun last year when I swam the 1500, but just did an 800 split request and got to loaf at this point Why is my stroke count already 16? Well, at least the guy next to me has a counter and I can see where I am. Oh, damn, that means I still have 700 to go. Over the next 300 Better start breathing more. Didn't Gary Hall Senior once promote a breathing pattern where you breathed at some point every stroke? If it's good enough once in a while, why not breathe whenever the h*** I feel like? While I'm at it, let's try practically rolling onto our back for a huge gulp of air on that last breath into the turn. At the 1300 Yes, I will finish ... I think ... Let's count our strokes again ... oh my god, 18? Better conserve whatever energy I have so I can actually use my legs on the last 100. At the finish All that pain for a lousy 1 second drop? I am never doing this stupid, stupid race again. How can a 1500 pool swim hurt so much more than a 4K open water swim? I am not swimming any more freestyle today. Thank you, Kurt, for swimming in the 1st heat so that my decline in pace, form and function over the race was not noticeable when compared to your beautiful, perfectly even split race. I had you at the 200, man :bow: 30 minutes after the finish and cool-down (done backstroke & breaststroke) when talking with my coach I didn't realize half the things I need to work on. Dang! He's got some good pointers. Maybe, just maybe, if I work on those, I could swim a better race next year ;)

When I swim a 1650 or a 1500 I clear my mind. No thoughts of any kind. During most of the swim I close my eyes. I do not count my arms strokes, I just kind of sense when I need to open my eyes to do my turns. Just get in, swim, feel it, own it. Don't think it. I did a 9000 meter and 5500 meter swim earlier this year in this same manner.

I swam a 1500 this weekend, so let me tell you what really went through my head: Somewhere between the 500 and 700 Maybe I should've taken Katie up on her offer to count for me At the finish Thank you, Kurt, for swimming in the 1st heat so that my decline in pace, form and function over the race was not noticeable when compared to your beautiful, perfectly even split race. I had you at the 200, man :bow: I was thinking, PWB can count for himself? That guy must be some kind of genius. 2-3-4-4-6-8-9-9-Thank God PWB is counting for me. And at the 1000m mark (or so), bell rings, @#%!& sandbagging Kurt Dickson!

So much for all the good advice. Yesterday, we had the build up swim. It was 1000 yards. I was solid for the first 400.Then, for some unexplainable reason, I decided that pacing was not for me. I became oxygen deprived, miserable and ground out the remaining 600. No fun. What a knucklehead. It was 14:00. Will need to think more, next Tuesday.

I put my mind black and think of nothing except each stroke. Then, at the 1000 I wonder if I get out if anyone will notice. At the 1500 I just wonder why each lap takes so long and if I'm already dead and in hell.