I've been on holiday for a week, and had to "fight" with the general public (aka kid's summer holidays) yesterday. So tonight's triathlon swim was the first proper swim for a couple of weeks. And to celebrate we did a timed 1500! I can't remember the last time I swum that far in one go!!
Actually it was quite enjoyable. One of my goals for the summer (general public swimming permitting) is to greatly improve the front half of my stroke. I'll post more about this later (it involves yet-another-new-set-of-paddles...). Yesterday was my first session concentration on my catch and tonight's 1500 allowed me to concentrate more on that aspect.
What was really interesting was that when I started to tire it was really noticable that my left arm pull (when breathing to my right) just presses down on the water - now real catch until my hand's pretty much next to/past my head. This is one of the things I want/need to change. So being able to concentrate on that (bad) feeling was useful.
As for the swim itself, I didn't push it and came in with a reasonable 21:13 (or sub 1:25 100M pace).
Warm Up
1 x 200 EZ
Main Set
1 x 1500 (timed - 21:13)
8 x 100 on 1:45 (all around the 1:20 mark)
Warm Down
1 x 200 EZ
