July into August .... and even some dawn
July 2020 conveniently finished on a Friday (I love it when months end tidily like this - it's even better when they end on a Sunday) and I did a nice long solo swim of 5,333 metres. Here's the set. I did a longer warm-down, so that I wouldn't need to wait for the bus too long. Earlier in the week, on Tuesday and Thursday mornings, we were finishing the 'speed block' at squad, so the distances were a little less and I needed to catch up. Actually, the culmination of the speed block was fun. The first part of each session focussed on breathing, or coordination, or shape in the water. We also did sets that moved between doing fast 50s and 100s and longer swims. On the Tuesday we did some 50s that involved changing speed on each 25, and I was surprised that I could knock out some 37s and 36s. On the Thursday, when we swim long course metres, I felt stiff as a board during the warm-up, and didn't look forward to whatever test set was coming up. As it happens, it w