No summer vacation this year :( .... I was doing short sets @ the salt water pool. Salt water changes my balance so to "start-off with" I grabbed a pull buoy. Problem is I never let it go! Weekends @ the lake I didn't use a PB - I was say 70%30% using the pull buoy going into my ocean swim race on Aug 19th.

Because of the low volume/pb stuff, I entered the race in the Open/wetsuit class again. Anyway racing in the suit I was like "dude you have become such a lazy a-- swimmer". I was disgusted, but did OK in the race relative time to my neighbor who won the thing.

Vowed no more pull buoy.

But to get my stroke back to something swim-able/kick timing wasn't easy. In the end I had to visualize swimming in silly putty. That is pushing my lead hand forward and taking my stroking hand back like I was stretching a thera-band (or trying to move through silly putty) did the trick.

Curious is anyone has even had that feeling of creating space between or separating your hands and pushing them as far apart as possible. Made my stroke nice and long, and then the kick just fell back into place.

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