I had a 4 hour drive there and 2 hours into the drive I stopped at a rest stop and could not straighten up. My back was so locked up so I took Ibuprophen and used my tennis balls between my back and the seatback. I did manage to get someone looser. A good warm up then on to swims. I have to admit my 500 free was a comfortable pace and yes I could have gone faster but didn't want to. I just couldn't get excited about this meet today. I can just say I had fun and swam.
I figured that we'd be getting something like this kind of workout today, after how nice John was to us in last night's practice. The one nice part of today however, was that we didn't do any intense fin kick set (maybe he forgot). Warmup: 1000 Mix-it-up (your choice) I did 150 Free, 50 Back, with the exception of the 3rd 200 did 50 Fly Drill 500 Kick w/ board (25 EZ, 25 Hard) 20 x 50 Free Pull @ :50 not intense, just do them Bathroom break...and then: Main Set: 12 x 200 as: 3 Rounds of 4 x 200 @ 5:00 each, 2:00 bonus rest between rounds I needed to try to keep my HR @ 170 here (kids were @ 180) OMG and a few other choice words were going through my head at this point Round 1 (Stroke) I did Fly, Back, Breast, Flywent 2:18, 2:31, 2:48, 2:20 <--not too shabby at the end, and I'm not falling apart like I used toLooking forward to my 800 IM SCM in a few weeks --- 100 EZ Round 2 (IM)went 2:24, 2:26, 2:30, 2:36I really started falling apart on the 3rd one of these, and the 4th one was just garbage--- 100 EZ - contemplated getting out here, but that not like me Round 3 (Free)went 2:20, 2:17, 2:14, 2:11These all hurt, and the first 2 were just struggling to get going. I got a second wind and kinda pulled through on the last two300 EZ swim and out --------------------- 5300 Yards Part of this tiredness today could be all my swimming I've been doing, could be my age in relation to the workouts I'm doing, could be that I was up this morning to start work at 5:00am as well. I did leave work for a 3 hour block to swim, then returned to finish up the machinery I was working on. I still like the results I'm getting in practice, even though today pushed me just about to the failing point, in fact I would say that I did fail on this main set, which is a good thing to not have everything be so easy to do. I'll be ready to get back to it again next week.
I took most of the last week off from swimming. Need the break both mentally and physically. So I swam last night and then again this morning. Here's what I did last night: Friday, 9/28/12 SCM Warm up (700) 200 swim - 200 kick - 200 pull - 100 scull Main Set: Free (1600) 1 x 400/30sr NS - went 6:25 (3:15-3:10) 2 x 200/3:30 build each - went 3:12, 3:10 4 x 100/1:45 ds set - went 1:35-1:33-1:32-1:31 8 x 50/55 ds 4 - all were around :45 Kick: On back no board 4 x 100/10sr (50 easy - 50 build) - did these on 2:30 with times 2:15-2:20 Warm down 100 easy back & free Total: 2800 meters --------------------------------- Saturday, 9/29/12 SCY Warmup 300 swim - 150 free/150 back 200 kick - flutter w/board & snorkel 4 x 50 pull/1:00 build -all free 4 x 50/1:00 IM order drills 8 x 25/30 burst + cruise IM order Main Set - all backstroke 3 x 200/3:30 build each - 3:15-3:10-3:05 3 x 100/1:45 ds to strong - 1:32-1:33-1:30 4 x 50/1:00 25 smooth - 25 fast - 41-42 on all 4 x 25/45 fast - ±18 8 x 12.5/30 fast Pull/Swim/Scull 12 x 50/1:10 Alternate 50 scull - 50 swim - all free 100 IM easy warm down Total: 3200 yards
Àfter spending a week with a sick wife and two sick children I finally found some time to make it to the pool. 200 w/bouy 200 EZ kick w/fins 100 IM drill 3 rounds of 400 @ 6:20 500 pace 5 x 100 @ 1:35 gentle descend 4 x 50 -- odds @ 45 -- evens @ 50 100 EZ 3 x 300 @ 5:15 --#1 100 fast 200 EZ --#2 200 fast 100 EZ --rest a extra min. --#3 300 for time 100 w/d 4900 scy I could really tell that I haven't been in the pool. I have been able to do some dryland so the week hasn't been a complete loss. Hopefully our house will be back to normal next week.
did 3600. The theme was 500's and 250's 250s/250K (wu) 500 sw 250 k 500 sw 250 k 500 s 250 k 500 s 250 k 100 cd nice endurance set. felt good after lifting last night.
Tonight basically amounted to a fun laid back day in the pool. The coach had the 1st half hour working with "new recruits" who were possibly joining the team, doing swimming tests, etc. and the welcome to the team kind of things with the parents, should they decide to stay. So we had our warmup to be done in the meantime. Warmup: 800 MI (25 Drill, 25 Build) 400 Kick w/ board 8 x 100 Free Pull @ 1:45 desc. 1-4, 5-8 (didn't go too crazy here) 16 x 25 @ 1:00 Odds V-sit scull, Evens Streamline Back Kick 10 x 75 Kick w/ fins @ 1:15 (25 Hard/25 EZ/25 Hard) Originally Posted by Coach John "well, since I'm in a good mood...we'll do some different interesting stuff tonight...but be ready for tomorrow morning." I didn't like the way he ended that statement, but I'll go with it. 8 x 25 Breaststroke @ 1:00 Odds Right Hand/Left Foot grab behind backEvens Left Hand/Right Foot grab behind backDown to the other end to play on the blocks 2 x 50s off blocks - "butt dive" entry (figure it out), V-Sit scull (forward, backward, or sideways) to the 25, then SPRINT Free back 4 x 50s off blocks - feet first jumping streamline entry to bottom, explode off bottom to use the speed into a fast flip turn at surface, which puts you in position for a V-sit scull to the 25, then SPRINT Free back 4 x 25s off blocks - backward (yes, backward facing jump) with the feet first streamlined entry to bottom, then explode off at a 45 degree angle SDKing to explode out for backstroke. 500 Free Swim and out ----------------------- 4300ish yards and wondering what tomorrow may bring. I do have to work in the morning as well fixin' stuff, but will "push pause" at work, go for a swim, return to work and complete the job. Always nice to be able to do that.
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