SuperFly

Yesterday I missed Masters swim so my smartass coach sent me a set to do after work that ended with the sentence “That’s what you get for skipping Masters”.  I then received an additional consquence for smacktalking and not inviting her over for coffee and was assigned 2 x 25 fly no breath.  Clearly she underestimates me.  And has no sense of distance since I live about a 2 day drive away from her and she would have been late for coffee anyway.

So…while I was mulling over the set she had given me, I was also thinking about the SuperFly Challenge over on Danielle’s site and about the smacktalking I had been doing this weekend with Jen.  (Are you sensing a theme?)

GB worked late last night and the pool was open unusually late, so I packed up a picnic dinner of bars and gels in my swim bag and went to the pool at 6pm.  I settled into an empty lane, arranging my bars etc. on the block and got down to business.  The set went by pretty quickly and although I wasn’t swimming especially fast, I felt good.  Instead of doing the 25 fly no breath I was instructed to do, I incorporated it into a 100IM just to be a showoff.  This was the first time I have done 25 fly without breathing and I was surprised to realize that it is actually easier than 25 free with no breath.  Maybe because you actually take less strokes in fly, I don’t know.

I was so excited to complete the set because my big plan was to break out the 400 fly at the end.  And I did.  And it was far less painful than you might think.  I was disappointed to note that the pool was empty and the lifeguard was reading her book, so no-one witnessed this feat except me and the muscles in my lower back.

So now I have another notch in my swimming belt, which truthfully, is not where I need notches right now.  Tonight I run on the track.  Now THAT is where I need notches.