First weekend of counties
I couldn't decide which category to put this in since it had a mix of both, anyway I swam 2 races this weekend, 1 each day which were: 50 Fly, 50 Back. 50 Fly: 30.09, this one made me confused since I should go 29 but what made it the 30 makes sense, basically my kicks during the stroke came too much from the knees which added a lot of drag and overall lack of speed. My coach said that the intensity was good the whole way but that one thing ruined it. This most likely also contributes to why I feel like I cant hold the fly as well as I usually do. This is a good thing aswell since that would mean that if I fix that one little problem I can go those better times. 50 Back: 31.53, PB but not a good one in my opinion. Similar to the fly, one little thing made me lose a lot of speed, and the awesome thing was that its not my endurance or stroke rate dropping off or anything like that, but the fact that I was going into both lane ropes 😂 like a snake🐍. I dont know why this was but I'm guessing that its either the London aquatics centre ceiling (you can only understand if you've swam backstroke there) or just the fact my technique started to degrade as I swam the race because most of the time I feel quite out of control swimming the 50 back. This was also mentioned by my coach that as I swam the 50 my catch started getting better, which is funny. So yeah thats my whole review of this weekend, I would see it as a win and learning.