Swimming Funk

I have to admit it. My workouts have been deteriorating lately. Case in point, my swim times have definitely gotten significantly slower in the past few weeks. As you can see, I had some decent times in mid-April but nothing good since after the Old College Tri (on April 26).

• April 15 - 500 yards after spin class in 9:17.48
• April 16 - 1,000 yards after spin class in 18:49.27 (splits: 9:38.11, 9:11.16)
• April 17 - 1,250 yards after spin class in 23:32.12 (splits below)
  • 1st 500: 9:20.13
  • 2nd 500: 9:25
  • final 250: 4:46.99
• April 29 - 500 yards after spin class in 9:42.3
• April 30 - 1,000 yards after spin class in 20:47.58
• May 1 - 500 yards after spin class in 10:55.15
• May 7 - 500 yards after spin class in 10:08.46

And just as (or even more) troubling than the slower times is the fact that I haven't had the energy and/or the drive to do any long-distance swims in quite a while.

I'm pretty sure that it is a sign of training burnout. I had actually already considered it a couple weeks ago, but my thinking was that I should just keep training through the beginning of May since I'm about to go on a 10-day vacation during which I expect that there won't be much traing - save for some swimming in the hotel pool and running around chasing my kids and nephew and niece at DisneyWorld. :-)