Smooth

This morning I did my swim and continued the grand experiment with breathing exclusively on my weak side. It is actually working out well. I wasn't as dizzy, didn't get quite as much water up my nose, and felt smoother and more streamlined in the water. I also noticed I was consistently hitting times that I had to work harder to reach when breathing strong side. For example, my main set today was 3x250 on 4:08, then 5x50 on 0:48, and then another 3x250 on 4:08. Normally, I'd struggle to hit 4 minutes on the 250 and on that second group, I'm sure I would've been a few seconds over. But this morning, I was doing 3:56-3:58 fairly easily and then on the second set of 250s I was hitting 4:00 on the last 2 and not putting in a huge amount of effort. It doesn't seem like my top-end speed has increased all that much, but I feel like I might be more efficient in that I can keep a decent pace for what feels like a longer time.

Tonight is a killer track workout and tomorrow is a commute to work day with hard intervals. Overall this week, is a good tough week and next week will probably be even harder. I am working to get 2 good weeks in and a decent, but short, taper in before Vineman, which is in 2.5 weeks! Can't wait for that race!