fatigue & form

Monday was a swim day with a short run after. The warm-up was long and it included 200m of kicks. I have been working on my kicks, but I wasnt strong enough to finish the whole 200m, I had to cut it short, actually in half. made it through the warm up, to the drills and on to the core of the workout. The intensity of the swim workouts has picked up and we are now doing sets at a max effort level, or one lower. Just to mention, it seems like the Campbell pool is a lot colder than most of the other pools in the area. On the flip side, the water in Lake San Antonio is freezing cold, so I might as well enjoy the pool for now. The last set before the cool down was 8x50m at max effort. the first 2 went well, then fatigue took over and my form went out the door. I started focusing on my form, but that was taking away from giving my max effort. at the end of it all I was so beat, that I gave the best effort I could while trying to maintain a good form... 200m cool down and off to the track for a 2 mile run

first 400m - my thoughts: 2 miles are you crazy, I can barely get my feet off the ground
2nd 400m - ok, this is not bad, I am shooting for a 9-10min mile
first mile - 8:58, not bad and I am feeling much better
I pick up the pace on the 2nd mile, finshed it in 7:32

Swim
warm up 200 swim, 100 kick, 200 pull
drills 10x50 finger tip drag
1x200m @ Level 4(scale is 1-5, 5 being max effort)
4x100m @ Level 3
8x50m @ Level 5
200m cool down

run
2miles