The second stage of a morning where things went better than I expected them to was in the water, where things felt like they were going smoothly (as opposed to fighting against the current) and I went 2-2.5 minutes
faster less slow than the last few weeks (and this started before I began looking at the clock, which is now fixed again). Drifted out of it just a little in the last couple of laps, but happy with this.
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