1500 meter time trial = same result as three years ago!

I don't always swim 1500 meters straight in the pool, but when I do, you can bet I'm going to time it! Today at lunch, I stared at the wide open empty lane in front of me, and said - "let's see what we got".

The splits (it was a continuous swim, but I managed to split the stop watch every 500m):

Split	Distance	Time	Pace /100m	Total Distance	Total Time	Cumulative Pace /100m	Note
1	500m	08:36.15	1:43	500m	08:36.15	1:43	Felt good - Bilateral breathing. Didn't go out too hard.
2	500m	08:36.71	1:43	1000m	17:12.86	1:43	Whoa - pretty much exact same split. Surprising. This 500m, I was mostly breathing to the right going up and to the left coming down.
3	500m	08:45.35	1:45	1500m	25:58.21	1:44	Interesting. Didn't fall off that much. Felt more tired for sure. Flip turns and push offs were weak.

Very odd that this is exactly the same time I had the last time I timed 1500m swim on December 13, 2012. It's somewhat reassuring to see that my splits were much more even this time around that last. It may have taken 11+ years of triathlon training, but I think I am starting to get the hang of proper pacing.