OK maybe I'm not faster

Or maybe I just can't count anymore. Last Wednesday I wrote that I got back in the big pool after a summer of training in my backyard and that by trying to concentrate more on technique during those sessions that I may have picked up a bit of speed. Well I was back at the Stouffville pool this morning and I may have been incorrect. Or there's a chance that my counting sucks. The more that I've tried to concentrate on technique the less I've been able to remember my lap counts. Today I had several moments where I wondered "Am I on 600m or 650m? Am I on 900m or 850m? No wait, I've done 850m so it must be 900m. I think. Does this put me at 1250m? Didn't I just do 1250m?" Sigh, I need an assistant just to keep track of my laps correctly. When I did a quick time check at 1000m I was back to my previous 100m times but again, I'm not sure I really did 1000m, it could have been 1050m or GASP 950m. I did 1000m in 24 minutes (I know, pathetic) and did 1900m in 48 minutes. So my 900m after the first 1000m was even crappier. Pretty bad. But now the good news, I didn't stop there. I'd avoided the foot cramps that hit me last time out by barely pushing off the wall on each lap and mostly only pushing off with one foot, the one less susceptible to cramping up. So after doing my 1900m I kept going and completed 2600m. That's the most I've ever done and was a great confidence booster that I can increase my swim distance looking towards next season.