I tried breathing every 2 this time and I find it almost harder to get a rhythm than breathing every 3-4. I feel more smooth when I breathe less often, but it does make sighting harder (for a while when doing OWS training, I was doing 4-2-4-2 and sight on the 2, sometimes 4-2-2-4-2-2). I watched some of the women in the olympic OWS and they were doing weird breathing patterns... looked like sometimes 3-2 and sometimes 2 and then 2 breaths in a row on each side.

My swim time this year came out to the same as last year, but I think I actually swam faster... I just sighted more and had foggier goggles. Still working on the perfect balance of swimming and sighting. (I think I also ran faster this year, but walked slower on my walk breaks... bad Colby.)

Loving everyone's pictures...