Feeling fast at the Masters.. my first off the blocks races

It did a lot of good for my confidence that most of the swimmers from the Masters group were away at a meet in Nanaimo - so as we were timed for our 50 metre sprints and 100 metre sprint I was the fastest gal, and the second fastest 100m freestyle. (imagine if the others were there...)

Because I'm a fairly new swimmer I feel like its okay to celebrate this one. Surprisingly I was totally into the racing... and it helped me manage that adrenaline rush that I also get in the open water swims.

I raced 40.3 sec for the first 50 metres, than 39.2 for the second 50 metres. In the 100m I sort of face flopped in the water; knocking off half of my goggles. I couldn't stand it so I used a few seconds to fix them on my flip turn and got 1min 32sec on my 100 metres. Lots of fun- I was sooo wiped after it.

This doesn't help that I was virtually up all night last night. I had so much fun last night, and drank a bit too much beer. Knowing that, I was pleased with my work swimming, and I decided to get some sleep this afternoon instead of try a not-so-quality spin. I'll get that in tomorrow.

Thursday night I got in for an awesome swim before doing my night duties at Juan de Fuca pool- I did Work-out 4. I think the 50 metre sprints here helped me out for Saturday.

Friday I ducked out of lunch at school to get spinning (workout 2... shortened by the time factor) - i just really needed to get away I got in some arm weights as well. (I also shoveled a lot of snow this week)... And That afternoon I had physio - so there was no other chance to get to the gym.

PHYSIO: I just felt, after my 20 minute jog, that I had to get back to Marcee- my old physio - to stick with consistencey. She is so good; shame that she's on Mat' leave in a week. She found that my inner quadriceps were weak again (typical to a cyclist) and that the lack of muscle balance is setting my knee of track. She manipulated the hip area alot to lossen my pelvis and then we did some exercises. Glutes/ leg raises/ balance work for the next month every second day. BAHH!!! Here we go!