Suiting up for practice

Here was my "taper reason" for donning the B70 today in workout: about 4 or 5 days before a big meet, I start to feel like crap in the water. Though this always used to happen to me back in my younger days of serious competitive swimming, I had forgotten about this feeling since coming back to Masters ... mainly because up until this fall, I've never really trained enough as a Masters swimmer to warrant much of a taper. Over this fall, though, I ramped up the intensity and duration of my training to the point where I felt like I needed a real taper. I got out of yesterday's morning workout and was feeling bummed with how bad I felt and getting worried about whether or not I'd swim fast this Friday, a mere four days later. I figured I needed a little edge this morning just to get me through these "slow feeling" days and added the B70 and my Aqua V cap. The result was exactly what I needed: I didn't feel too fast like Erik referenced, but felt better ... enough so to get my mind back on track.

Here was my "taper reason" for donning the B70 today in workout: about 4 or 5 days before a big meet, I start to feel like crap in the water. Though this always used to happen to me back in my younger days of serious competitive swimming, I had forgotten about this feeling since coming back to Masters ... mainly because up until this fall, I've never really trained enough as a Masters swimmer to warrant much of a taper. Over this fall, though, I ramped up the intensity and duration of my training to the point where I felt like I needed a real taper. I got out of yesterday's morning workout and was feeling bummed with how bad I felt and getting worried about whether or not I'd swim fast this Friday, a mere four days later. I figured I needed a little edge this morning just to get me through these "slow feeling" days and added the B70 and my Aqua V cap. The result was exactly what I needed: I didn't feel too fast like Erik referenced, but felt better ... enough so to get my mind back on track.