Finding a groove

It has been a while since I wrote here and I apologize to anyone who might care.

Lat week I thought it would be a good idea to go to 3 days a week. It turned out to be a more complicated endevor than I knew. See fridays are sprint days and if wednesday is not a hard day( read technical session)I end up not really swimming for 3 days then sprinting on friday and being sore all weekend. I don't think my shoulders can handle this kind of schedule.
I am back on every day that there is practice although I skipped monday as I was afraid that the snow shoveling that I would be doing later would add up to too much shoulder work.

I do like being up early and this morning I woke at 5 and was able to do a bit of sketching before practice.

I am all over the place with my stroke and pacing. I know my lane mates arent crazy about swimming with me as sometimes I am fast and other times I am so slow and winded.
The issue at this point is all of the things that I have to keep in my head at once regarding stroke: Arms out front. rolling breath and reaching breath, kicking, keeping neck relaxed. I think I need to swim for a few months to let all of this sink in and hopefully I would come out of it with not too many bad habits.

I guess it all comes down to laps.

The weather has been so totally crappy. The good thing is that it hasnt been too snowy at night and the car doesnt need too much attention in the early morning. It is hard getting in the pool as the deck area has been pretty cold. After about 200 meters I get into it again and it is all good.

No swimming on xmas day which is good as we are going to have another storm. Back on friday./ Shea promised that the sprints wouldn't be too brutal. Thanks Shea!

Merry christmas.