Does swimming make you smarter?

I posit that yes, it does. You have to be sharp to keep up with those pesky intervals and distances, communicate clearly with your lanemates, and calculate your speed per 100 on a distance set. All before 7:30am! I also think that swimmers are a pretty smart group in general, and it's definitely true with MIT Masters. I just feel smarter after I swim with some of these people, and isn't that most important? IW, one of our own lane smarties, led our main set today and groaned at having to think so much, but it paid off:

WU:
3 x 75 free on 1:15
3 x 75 all stroke on 1:30
3 x 75 free build on 1:15
3 x 75 fl,ba,br, on 1:30
3 x 150 pull on 2:20
1 x 150 swim on 2:10
Main:
6 x 150 broken free
Going: 25 cruise, 100 fast, 5 sec. rest and 25 ez on 40
A few sprints off of the block
6 x 150 broken stroke
Going: 25 cruise, 100 fast, 5 sec. rest and 25 ez on 40

Awesome job on the 150s, IW. E and I left after the first 150s.

It's supposed to be taper week for us distance meet swimmers, but it's hard to taper when you are also doing the meet the following weekend. But I will taper, because I always listen to my coach. :)