Triumphant? start

I went and got a membership at a local gym. The pool isn't fantastic but it will serve its purpose. Plenty of lap time despite only three lanes. Tonight I was the only one there for more than 5 minutes and had a lane all to myself.

Looks like there may be a few more flotsams and jetsams here though!

The pool is supposedly 25 yards. I want to measure it because I feel like I should have been slower tonight. Maybe I just used to take a lot more rest... I know I felt a lot slower than the splits were showing.

I always get dizzy the first time back in the pool after time off. No clue what that is about, but I was glad that base training started off with a light swim. (I must admit though that 1450 yards did seem somewhat anticlimactic after doing 4000+ just a month ago) There is lots of time before August to build up to that though.

I was supposed to do 1500 tonight but going back through the workout in my head I realized I am horrible at math in the pool and only got in 1450. (It may have been 1500 as I may have done a 450 yard warm up but I prefer to err on the side of less) Several reasons I lost count on the warm up: I was a little thrown off by being the only person in the pool, very obviously the only visual target for the lifeguard. The pool temp was a little warm for my taste. I swear that on the way down the lane I was swimming against a current, the little jet thingy was in my lane and I think it was a little powerful for its purpose. My contact was driving me crazy and my depth perception was off a bit. I missed two flip turns in a row and then stopped to fix my contact. The lifeguard called out to see if I was okay, haha. "yes just put in my contact backwards" don't mind the silly triathlete who hasn't been in a pool since February!

Next time I need to bring a workout plan. I wasn't sure if I would be able to get in a swim tonight and figured I would wing it.

Stats:
1450 yd swim 28 minutes

warm up
400 yd

Drills
50 catch up
50 fingertip
50 slow arm recovery
50 fist
50 rotate kick
2*25 head down/ 25 free

Main Set
5*100 with 15 second rests
1:33.86
1:35.17
1:37.32
1:38.60
1:37.74

Cool Down
50 yd breast
150 yd