Marian, Tues Nov 14th

Last week was my first recovery week since training started. It felt good totake it easy. This week we are back the tough stuff. I learned that I reallydon't know how to swim. I was reading a couple of articles on a swimmingwebsite and realized that I don't swim like anybody in the pictures that say"freestyle techniques". So, I asked around:"where are your arms when you swim?"After been shown I realized: my arms are in a very diffrent position. Theyare too straight. Maybe thats why my elbows hurt when I swim long distance.I went to the pool on Monday. I identified the good swimmers. Theres thisone guy who's really fast and swims everyday there. I got in the lane nextto him and stalked him for a few laps. I thought: "hey, he's arms are in thesame place as the ones in the pictures, not like mine at all"I started imitating him. I hope he didn't notice. Well, today my shouldersand back are very sore, but the good kind of sore. The sore you get afteryou do a new workout. I will try it again when I swim on Thursday and seehow it goes.