Suiting up for practice

Here is my warning on suiting up for practice - especially during taper. "watch your pace swims" -- 50s / 75s / 100s never felt so easy. It's like drug, you just want more. Yesterdays workout -- - 3x100 easy Free - wow I am going 2-3 seconds faster than usual - whoops the last one is already at 500 pace. - I wonder how my IMs feel -- 4x50 - one of each stroke at 400 pace. - The breaststroke just feels amazing - 3x50 *** descending - the last one was the fastest 50 *** ever in practice. - How about a 75 back - wow that feels good. - hmmm - I have not really done any real sprints - how about some 25s from a push -- 3x25 all out from a push. - maybe I can work on some IM transitions - 3x100 IM -- I forced myself to stop when the second one came in way too fast. I am suposed to be tapering :cane:

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.