Wed 19 Oct - New PB's

Into another heavy week. Plans had to change this week as the pool was closed for 'Essential Maintenance' this morning. Meant 3 1/2 hours in the pool this afternoon. Things start building up to the races now with routines more specifically aligned to the needs of the 100m and the 200m. This means more lactate work, threshold endurance and overloaded endurance which have doubled in volume.

Some new PBs today - I was trying to find the difference between by brown fin (stiffer) and the black fin (softer) by repeating 50m sprints -5 with each fin at different stroke rates using a small swimmers metronome that fits inside the swimming hat. Brown fin is faster and a new PB of 22.4s for 50m on the surface. So Current best times are:

• 50m apnea 21.06s - official June 06
• 50m surface 22.4s - informal (previously 24.16s)
• 100m surface 49s - informal (previously 54.11s)
• 200m surface 1m 59s - informal (previously 2m 04s)