Awesome swim workout

When I saw the workout with the little comment from the coach at the end saying "Phew. I got tired just typing that! But it looks like fun!" I knew this might be real "fun".

It looked tough and I was little intimidated. Good thing about pool situation is that now I am more anxious about whether I will be able to get the swim in than abuot actuall swims. Basically I am freaking out about having to deal with messed up pool hours and not about hard workouts:) So there is something good in all that pool drama.

As I said, workout was tough but I did it and it was great. Main set was fast and steady efforts at short send-offs.
100 fast @ 1:40
200 steady @ 3:20
100 fast @ 1:40
300 steady @ 5:00
100 fast @ 1:40
400 steady @ 6:40
100 fast @ 1:40
300 steady @ 5:00
100 fast @ 1:40
200 steady @ 3:20
100 fast @ 1:40
LOVED IT. I am getting much better at endurance stuff. I cannot believe that 1:37/100yards pace is actually easy for me now (those were steady efforts). Ok, it is probalby like warm up pace for fast folks but it is damn good for me and I am thrilled about it.

The only hick up was that I got cramp to my left calf during 400 and then another in my right calf during following fast 100 so those were little slower by ~5-6sec than they were supposed to be and thus I added 10sec to send offs:( It happened at the turn. Not as I pushed off but as I moved legs/feet to my body before the turn right before I pushed off. And it would not go away for around 40yards. Frustrating because then I need to keep that leg flexed and cannot kick with it and it also hurts. (By the way. I do not understand why people drown when they get a cramp. I mean, you can keep swimming, it just hurts and you cannot really kick with that legs. But you still have another leg and two arms.)
And during following 200 I headcrashed to some kids. WTH? There were 5 people in the whole pool and 3 lanes completely open and those stupid kids decided to chill out in my lane??? What's with their parents?
I tore my swimming cap. I do not have time to go buy one tomorrow because it takes me around 40min on bike to get there...Hard life without a car.

So again, awesome swim, I am thrilled. But still a lot of work to do to be able to hold <1:35/100y pace for 4224 yards next August. Phew, that's looong. I need to work hard, I have 13 months!
And then <1:30/100m for the future. Is that even possible???

By the way, woo-hoo for Andy Schleck taking the yellow jersey. I love him. Well, I do not know him but whatever. And Peter Velits who is 19th! Awesome!