My last three race swims have beat my expectations. I thought they were flukes, but lately, the last couple of months have seen shave 10 seconds off of my time. I did a 1:32 100 m today. Probably not a big deal to most here. But I had a 15 year gap between swimming fast as a teenager (many lessons), and starting this whole triathlon thing almost 3 years ago where I could barely swim 100 yards without my shoulders pumping up a lot. By the time my first race came, I was swimming at about 2:10 100M. Just couldn’t get the feel right.
Seems like the key was putting in the time for my ironman distance in October which allowed me to maintain good technique longer. My overall sprint speed was probably helped by all these videos you guys are posting which helped the feel come back, I don’t know. But thank you. Thought I would share that.