I have made a small change to my tracking. My Garmin watch keeps missing turns and has actually become a bit of a distraction in my swim workouts. That’s not to detract from Garmin, but more a personal preference. I am switching to the FORM swim goggles as they have a heads-up display that tracks distance and pace. They really record the same information as the Garmin watch does but in a less obtrusive manner. Today’s swim is the first one with the new goggles.

8/3/2026 Workout Summary

Metric	Value
Total Distance	2,500 m
Total Swim Time	50:32
Total Rest Time	7:03
Total Session Time	57:35
Swim Sets	14
Average Swim Pace	2:01 /100 m
Average HR	126 bpm
Maximum HR	153 bpm
Average SWOLF	42

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Workout Structure

Set	Stroke	Distance	Time	Pace /100 m	Rest
1	Freestyle	200 m	2:59.4	1:30	0:26.0
2	Breaststroke	200 m	3:41.3	1:51	0:41.5
3	Freestyle	200 m	3:09.1	1:35	0:27.9
4	Breaststroke	200 m	3:42.9	1:51	0:29.2
5	Freestyle	200 m	3:12.2	1:36	0:42.2
6	Breaststroke	200 m	3:44.4	1:52	0:28.2
7	Freestyle	200 m	3:14.3	1:37	0:29.5
8	Breaststroke	200 m	3:46.5	1:53	0:47.1
9	Freestyle	200 m	3:15.9	1:38	0:35.7
10	Breaststroke	200 m	3:52.3	1:56	0:29.1
11	Mixed	100 m	1:42.8	1:43	0:29.7
12	Mixed	200 m	3:33.1	1:46	0:42.0
13	Freestyle	100 m	1:38.9	1:39	0:14.7
14	Breaststroke	100 m	1:56.7	1:57	—

Initial observations

• Freestyle remained remarkably consistent despite the repeated alternation with breaststroke:
  • 200 m repeats progressed from 1:30/100 (opening set) to 1:38/100 by the fifth repeat.
• Breaststroke also showed good consistency:
  • 200 m repeats ranged from 3:41.3 to 3:52.3, a spread of only 11 seconds across five repetitions.
• The best 200 m breaststroke (3:41.3) is now the fastest dedicated 200 m breaststroke interval in the recent training block, improving on the 3:45.6 benchmark from 7/30 by about 4.3 seconds.

The workout design also provides a good measure of fatigue resistance. Rather than swimming a single fast breaststroke repeat, I repeatedly returned to the event after freestyle work and maintained a relatively narrow range of performances. That’s encouraging for my 200 m breaststroke preparation because it suggests I am sustaining race-relevant pace even as fatigue accumulates.

With the new 8/3/2026 workout, the benchmark table is now:

Event	Today’s Time (8/3)	Previous Best	2025 Bronze	2025 4th
1500 m Freestyle	—	25:46.0 (8/2)	25:04.75	25:06.88
800 m Freestyle	—	14:08.0 (8/2)	12:32.85	12:56.76
200 m Breaststroke	3:41.3 ⭐	3:45.6 (7/30)	3:39.92	4:00.27
100 m Breaststroke	1:56.7	1:44.0 (7/26)	1:32.97	1:37.95

Biggest update

Today’s 200 m breaststroke is the standout.

	Time
Previous Best	3:45.6
New Best (8/3)	3:41.3
Improvement	4.3 seconds

That moves me to:

• 1.4 seconds behind the 2025 bronze medal time
• 19.0 seconds ahead of the 2025 fourth-place time

Current Gap to the Medal Stand

Event	Gap to Bronze	Gap to 4th
1500 m Freestyle	41.3 sec	39.1 sec
800 m Freestyle	1:35.2	1:11.2
200 m Breaststroke	1.38 sec	−18.97 sec (ahead of 4th)
100 m Breaststroke	11.03 sec	6.05 sec

Road to Huntsman

The progression of my 200 m breaststroke over the last two weeks has been great:

Date	Time
7/19	3:59.5
7/30	3:45.6
8/3	3:41.3 ⭐

That’s an 18.2-second improvement in about two weeks of training.

What’s even more encouraging is how I achieved it. Today’s 3:41.3 wasn’t a standalone race effort—it was the first of five consecutive 200 m breaststroke repeats, alternating with 200 m freestyle. Maintaining breaststroke times between 3:41 and 3:52 across the set suggests that race-specific endurance is improving alongside my speed. That consistency is exactly what I should be seeing with the Huntsman Games about two months away.

I am going to try to get a new critical swim speed and a new benchmark for the breaststroke 100m and 200m sometime this next week.

(NOTE: Some of the evaluations were done using the assistance of ChatGPT, not to adjust the results but rather to compare and interpret).