Like a fish

My swimming lately is all focused on technique. I'm doing swim-on-your-side, catch-up drill, laps with fins to work on streamlining, counting strokes, everything I remember from Aida the killer Lithuanian coach I had last year. I think it's starting to come together. Yesterday I was doing the minimum possible number of strokes per 25m (something like 16) and still passing the high school swimmer working out in the next lane. Whether this translates to actual race speed remains to be seen, but I feel a lot more comfortable in the water than I used to, and I'm finally managing to do spin turns without nearly drowning myself.