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Quick question about Swim Drills on the training plan.  The book (starting out triathlon) cites one example of a swim drill, where you take two right arm strokes followed by two left....but when I see 100 yd. swim drill on my plan, I can't imagine it;'s that same drill every time?  Maybe I am reading this wrong. 

The plan I used last year was more basic for swimming, so I was more focused on completing the swimming for endurance vs. improving many aspects of swimming.  Since I am doing an open water, and the swim portion is much longer then in a pool, swimming improvement is more important -

Any help would be great.

I'm sorry everybody!  ALL, and I mean ALL, of my BT notifications have started going to my spam folder!!!!!!  I thought no one was commenting for the past week!!!!  I was wondering why I wasn't getting any BT stuff on links to which I posted, and now I know why!!!!!!!!!!! 

I haven't been ignoring you! I'm looking forward to catching up on my reading and commenting!!!

(how frustrating!)

Congratulations!  Looks like your nutrition was just fine!

In the week leading up to a race, nothing should change.  Keep eating good, solid carbs, protein, {some} fat.  Just make sure you cut out any extra fiber the day or two before the race...  but my advice is later than when it was expected.

That's a great time especially with hills and humidity!  Be proud of your accomplishment and focus in on your next one!

Since I was a non-trained (meaning, no swim team experience) swimmer, I had no clue what kind of drills were out there.  If you do a quick internet search, you can find a lot of good drills to do.  Drills are to keep your form in check, not necessarily strengthen your muscles to perform faster, although that can happen when form is improved.  You can pick and choose which drills you want to do.  To improve distance, you'll want to do longer intervals (300s, 500s, etc) and to increase speed, you'll want drills (for form improvement/maintennance) and shorter intervals (25s, 100s, 150s, etc.).  Unfortunately, the best way to improve is to join a masters program or get lessons...

hope it helps!