I swim, therefore I am

LCM@FGCU Aquatic Center
Air temp of 78, pool at 80, 99% water clarity.
Sunny with humidity at 70%

Warm up
300 FR
200 K
4x50 FR on 1:00 desc 1-4

*Set 1*
2(3x400 Free on 6:30) negative 200 split, progressive descend
EZ 100 between rounds

1. 2:42/2:40, 2:42/2:37, 2:40/2:35
2. 2:44/2:38, 2:41/2:33, 2:40/2:32

*Set 2*
1000 FR Swim as steady state w/paddles, fins, snorkel

*Set 3*
5(4x50 Free 1:30, EZ 100) descend 50s 1-4

1. 34, 34, 33, 32
2. 33, 33, 32, 31
3. 33, 32, 32, 31
4. 30, 29, 28, 27 w/short fins
5. 30, 29, 28, 27 w/short fins

*Set 4*
800 BK Swim


Warm down:
100 EZ FR

Comments:
Set 1 - Felt sluggish during the 400s and struggled trying to negative split. Did 5 second open turns on the 200 to check scoreboard clock. Hopefully after 2-3 weeks of straight LCM swimming I will become more adjusted to LCM swimming. The last two 400, the negative 2nd 200s were a little better as I was irritated at myself, and really attacked the first 25/200 which led to holding a faster pace all the way.

Set 3 - The results of this set are a good effort for me, and shows encouraging possibilities of speed improvement. I can swim strongly to moderately fast for a long time, but I never have worked on building raw speed. 1000 meters of 85-100% effort swimming were difficult, with my only reward being the times as called out by my coach and then afterwards I was wiped out.