Day off – Not!
So after school I made plans with Steve to go with him to watch the masters championships. He had a couple of his swimmers swimming so I thought it would be a good experience and go watch. I had never been to an adult swim meet before much less to watch 1500m heats.
David – one of Steve’s swimmers and an Ironman as well was swimming at 5:30 and he came to Steve to really work on the swim and he did. Last year his 1500m was 31min and this year he swam 28 and change. Way to go Dave.
After Dave we had a little wait until the next heat that he had swimmers in. But as it turned out one of his swimmers didn’t show. Steve looked at me and said “wanna swim?” Now I didn’t have a suit or goggles and the heat that I was going to be in was for people who could better 23min. Some days are good but I know that I can’t keep 130’s so I was just going to go and do my best. I wanted to swim at least 27:30 which would mean 150’s and anything slower would be disappointing. My final time was 25:52 and I only got lapped by the guy next to me twice. Here is my break down:
100 1:29 800 1:47
200 1:40 900 1:43
300 1:43 1000 1:44
400 1:44 1100 1:46
500 1:45 1200 1:45
600 1:42 1300 1:45
700 1:41 1400 1:47
1500 1:41
It looks like my avg was 1:44/45 which is great. I was tired at the end but I probably could have kept going. Was that an OLY swim pace? No way but I think it could have been close. With no prep and just doing it, I was pretty pleased.
Thanks to Hans – One of Lisa’s Bike guys who was at her training camp last year. He leant me a pair of goggles and gave me a little positive thing just before the swim.
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