Back in the big pool

It's been a while since I swam in a 25 m pool and tonight I was back at the Stouffville pool for the first time in 3 months. I spent the summer swimming in the backyard in my comparatively small 10 m pool but I hoped it wouldn't result in a degradation of my swim. Considering my swim already sucked that would have equaled a disaster for me. So tonight was my chance to see what if anything might have happened since June. It started well, I felt comfortable and went through 1000 m without any problems and when I stopped to do a quick time check it looked like I'd picked up about a minute compared to my time before the summer. I wasn't keeping exact timing but I did look at the clock both at the start and after 1000 m and in the least I sure wasn't any slower. In the backyard I often tried to work on technique and maybe it helped a bit. So I continued swimming wanting to get in another thousand but at 1100 m my foot cramped and I pulled up and kind of bounced back to the pool edge on on leg. I waited out the cramp and started swimming again and at 1250 m ...... crap, another cramp this time in my other foot. It happens when I push off the wall at the end of a lap and usually once I've swum over 1000 m and I really don't know how to get over this. I figured 1250 m was enough and called it a night but was still happy because I still felt good and knew I could have done another 750 m. I'm sure glad there aren't any walls in the races.