So we have a "swim rant" thread, but I wanted to post my "swim happy" moment today, probably brought on by being out of the water for over a week.
Pool reopened after maintenance + clear, fresh perfect temp water + 6 lap lanes between 4 lap swimmers = 4200yd :bliss:
There's not much for me that beats the feeling of swimming breastroke when you're right on it, technique, tempo, smooth but fast. I can still remember my first masters nationals (GB) hitting the first turn and as I came out thinking "nailed it" and just relaxing into the rest of the swim.
I'd hoped to go under 70 for 100m breastroke, and did 67.12, 1/100th off my pb from 19 years beforehand!
All of which relates to the talk of PBs and plateaus. I only expect to swim really fast once a year. If I do LC nationals maybe twice. But times just aren't that important to me most of the time in my best events - it's how I swim that I care about and I only care about being in the ballpark, time-wise (which, depending on how much training I'm doing etc, can be a few seconds either way over 100m).
There's not much for me that beats the feeling of swimming breastroke when you're right on it, technique, tempo, smooth but fast. I can still remember my first masters nationals (GB) hitting the first turn and as I came out thinking "nailed it" and just relaxing into the rest of the swim.
I'd hoped to go under 70 for 100m breastroke, and did 67.12, 1/100th off my pb from 19 years beforehand!
All of which relates to the talk of PBs and plateaus. I only expect to swim really fast once a year. If I do LC nationals maybe twice. But times just aren't that important to me most of the time in my best events - it's how I swim that I care about and I only care about being in the ballpark, time-wise (which, depending on how much training I'm doing etc, can be a few seconds either way over 100m).
