source: curriki.com
For the life of me I couldn’t swim fast when I started triathlons (and thus serious swimming training) at age 18. I never understood the catch, the glide, the acceleration, the recovery, the kick, body position, rolling to the side, what have you. I’d swim everyday and work hard at my stroke and still be thrashing around like a cockroach in water. After I quit the national team in 2005 I stopped swimming for almost a year, when I got back in though somehow it just all clicked. It was magic. I’m not saying I’m terribly fast now but I feel so much more efficient in the water. Even a little warm up or cool down swim is much faster than when I first began.
Yesterday, after two weeks out of the pool, I jumped back in for a 4km swim (1,000m WU, 5×400m hard, 500m easy, 8x(25m kick 25m pull), 100m CD) and it felt like I never left the water. Before I’d lose the feeling, but now it seems it’s pretty much ingrained in me like riding a bike.
Some things, I guess, you just need to give it a rest for awhile, digest, visualize, then give it another go. Certainly worked for my flapping, I mean, swimming!
Uh, but really tired today. My off day yesterday, once again, turned into a work day and I stayed til midnight. Couldn’t sleep well for the whole night after that. Will try to run in the office gym later, if work allows it.