Slacking

I've been slacking a bit lately on the posts. Between family, work, and training, the last few weeks have been quite busy, but then again, that's the same schedule all the time. From a tri-training perspective, I've had an interesting few weeks.

I met again with Coach and spent some time in the pool. I had reached a bit of a plateau and he hadn't finished off the video from our first session so we decided to meet again and take a look at my stroke progress (or lack thereof). Even though I felt like I had changed it somewhat already, his comments were basically the same. I do too much catch-up, which slows me down, and my timing is off. I need to start me reach sooner. The other thing he added this time around is that when I do reach, I cross over too much, i.e., my right arm goes to my left side and vice versa. So we've added two more drills to help correct these things. A new reach/timing drill where I start my pull before I start my recovery with the back arm and a drill where I concentrate on doing my reach out at 9 or 10 o'clock towards the side of my body. And boy, what a difference. It really feels weird, but the first time in the pool after this little session with Coach, I cut 2-3 seconds of my 50 yd time. I could do a 50 in 0:41, which is really fast for me. It felt quite strange, but I'm slowly getting the hang of it. I don't have much endurance and cannot keep the good form for very long, so I've still got a lot of work to do. At least I can see a path now towards a 1:10 iron distance swim, which seemed unfathomable before.