One of those swims in a meet whereby you not only exceeded your swim time goal, but it felt better the longer you swam.
I remember one out of 40 years of swimming. Mine was in 1995 at Mt. Hood LC Nationals, the 800 m free. I had overtrained, tapered properly, and felt like a stick of dynamite going off the blocks. Not only did I negative split all the 200s, but I felt like I could have swam forever. I actually didn't want the race to come to an end.
I was spent at the finish, took a minute or two longer than others to get out of the water, but 15 minutes later felt great. I remember seeing the time on the scoreboard and I was in shock. I shaved over a minute off my personal best.
All of these things, to me, make that swim a "power swim." I even scratched all my backstroke events that day because I was so "high." I also remembered how stroke-by-stroke the entire 800 m. felt for several days.
Anyone else have this type of wonderful experience?
Donna
Has anyone else on the Forum done these.
To hijack the thread even further, I did the 6k Saturday and will do the 3k this weekend some time.
The 6k went pretty well, I intentionally held myself back for the first 1500 so I wouldn't blow myself up. Stopped for a sip of drink at 3k and pushed her on out. I felt much better mentally after the break at 3k. But physically for the last 500 I was really wrung out. Couldn't concentrate, couldn't push the pace, just trying to hang in there. I ususally take that to mean that I paced it about right, I had nothing left in the tank at the end.
I ended up taking 5 minutes off of my time from last year. Pretty darn pleased with that. Taking time off of last year's 3k will be much harder, I had a pretty good 3k last year.
Has anyone else on the Forum done these.
To hijack the thread even further, I did the 6k Saturday and will do the 3k this weekend some time.
The 6k went pretty well, I intentionally held myself back for the first 1500 so I wouldn't blow myself up. Stopped for a sip of drink at 3k and pushed her on out. I felt much better mentally after the break at 3k. But physically for the last 500 I was really wrung out. Couldn't concentrate, couldn't push the pace, just trying to hang in there. I ususally take that to mean that I paced it about right, I had nothing left in the tank at the end.
I ended up taking 5 minutes off of my time from last year. Pretty darn pleased with that. Taking time off of last year's 3k will be much harder, I had a pretty good 3k last year.
