It was a sloppy again… fucking sloppy. I am not sure what is going on with my
freestyle, but I think I might have the yips. Every time I to go swim the 2500
pyramid I swear I feel like I can’t breathe anymore. I struggle to get into rhythm on anything over
a 200. My teeth are clinched. My pulls are off. I am breathing on ever other stroke because I
am afraid I can’t breathe.
To be honest I think I am pressing. I think I am trying to hard every time I
start the pyramid. I eat time I feel the
need to swim better and faster than I did on the last one. I am unhappy just swimming the 2500 meters; I
need to be longer in the water, better, faster on the turns. It is almost like a sickness, the burning
desire to move fast than I did just one week before. However, if I don’t beat my time, then how
could I possibly be making progress? How
could I possibly getting better? Now,
this sounds even more ridiculous when I have only been up for a few hours after
a marathon sleep and I had two slices of pizza from Costco to eat.
I finally slowed myself down in the middle of my 500 and
made myself swim at a snail’s pace. I made
myself pull my head out of the water on each turn. It made it a little bit easier. I finished but it was hard.
When I finally finished I was 2 minutes slower than last
week…
I swam it but I think I am going to drop the pyramid from
the routine. The goal is to push me, but
not at the risk of hating the swim that I am doing. Right now I don’t love the pyramid. However, I have to figure out what is going
on that is impacting the breathing. I need
to get back to relaxing and enjoying myself on longer freestyle swims.
Anyway, I think I am going back to bed. When I get up I will have a roommate…
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Billy Burkle Swim for 2,500 m in 01:20:02 at a 00:00:48.02
25 m pace and at 1,874.22 m/hr
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