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September 29, 2008
fun swim
Now that I am in physical and mental recovery mode after my season, I get to make up my own workouts. It is kind of fun! I am so passionate about running and tris that I have developed a pipe dream of coaching on the side, so it is kind of cool to play with different ideas for my future coaching career. I think the swim workout I did this morning would be a good basis for a workout for one of my athletes. It was:
- 500 warmup
- 2 x 500, start the first one at a moderate pace for the first 250 and go slightly faster for the second 250. Then rest for a minute or so. For the second 500, start the first 250 at the pace you ended at on the first 500, and after 250 then speed up.
- 500 cool down
It was totally fun! When left to my own devices I do longer repeats so I have less breaks wherein I could talk myself into swimming less. I know that I need to work really hard on swimming over the winter, but I think I will have plenty of time for that when my maintenance plan starts. So right now I am having fun in the water and working on my technique.
I actually had a very mellow weekend for me - I actually even had a few hours to sit on the couch and read a magazine, which was amazing - but for some reason I am positively exhausted today. I think I am going to go home after work and ride for as long as I feel like it, because the weather is really nice, and then I am going to take a shower and take to my bed. There may also be pie involved - I switched my game plan for the weekend and made a peach pie instead of a blueberry pie, because they had fresh peaches at the Farmer's Market on Saturday. If I do say so myself it turned out pretty nicely! You never know how baking in Colorado is going to go, what with the altitude, but I think the crust was serviceable and the peaches were really nice. I wonder if baking is what my coach meant when he said I should engage in active physical and mental recovery?!
Posted by barb at September 29, 2008 1:49 PM