Friday feeling

Aren't Fridays great?  I love them but then again if I was working the weekend I might not be so keen!  So today it was a tough interval session in the pool.  This was good for my legs which were feeling a bit stiff from yesterdays 15 mile run.  The  swim distance was the same as Tuesday i.e. 3,000m but a very different session.  300m warm up, 4 x 50m drills, 2 x 500m, 3 x 300m, 2 x 200m (all timed) and a 200m warm down.  It's funny when you break a session up like that as these shorter targets make you swim faster rather than the more consistent pace over the long distance.  The objective is that being faster over shorter distances will make you quicker over the long distance.
I have found this to be the same in projects in the corporate environment.  Certain people tend to lose interest if the goal is too far away or don't realise that if they slacken off say in the middle it will have an impact further down the line.
So if you are struggling with a project see if you can break the milestones up to create greater focus and re-energise the project.  Everyone will win out of it as I did this morning with my swimming.  Have a good weekend.