Wednesday, March 03, 2010

Guess who's a real swimmer?

Guess who that is on the left??? Looks like a real swimmer, huh? (Don't disillusion me, if I made it onto the poster, I can't be that bad.)

At Masters tonight, Amanda in my lane told me my picture was on the poster advertising the next session, and apparently the same images were also in an email we got. I feel so cool! And to make things better, a fast woman from 2 lanes over told me in the locker room that I have gotten a lot better and look much smoother and faster. It FEELS better, too, much more natural. Well, except for this breathing stuff we did tonight. I did OK taking only 4 breaths per length for the 200, 300 and 500 sets. The 3 breaths per length for the next 300 was pushing it, and the 1 breath per length for the 200 ended up being more like 8 25s (with loooong rests in between). But I do have faith that all this misery is paying off. We retest the 500 on the last session in 2 weeks. I only really hope for under 10:30, though 9:5x would be very nice. At least now, I feel like I can cruise for long sets and feel comfortable, even if I am not good at pushing the pace. Comfort was all I wanted. If I do this again, I can work on speed.

6 comments:

Michelle Simmons said...

Awesome! That's cool! :)

jessica said...

Very cool!

The only thing I like about the hypoxic breathing stuff is that it reminds me of being 11 years old, back when I thought it was "fun" to test how far I could swim underwater. Other than that, yeah, miserable.

Leah said...

Yay!!!

N.D. said...

That's awesome! you real swimmer :)

X-Country2 said...

You're famous!

RunningMama said...

woohoo swimming poster child! you should offer to sign it for posterity.