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July 18, 2006
A Swim or Two
I was having trouble logging onto my blog last night to write so now you all will get treated to my recount of not one but TWO swim workouts. I know - it's your lucky day! :)
Swim workout #1 - yesterday morning
3500 meters total (900 meters warmup/200 meters cooldown)
The workout was supposed to be as follows:
12x200 meters with the odd repeats all on 4 minutes and the even repeats on 3:55, 3:50, 3:45, 3:40, 3:35 and 3:30.
Simple enough right? Well there happened to be a guy that usually swims in the lane faster than my lane that decided to join us for the workout. This is pretty common - people who have just raced or are going to race and want to take it easy. Regardless, he led our workout and let me tell you - I have no idea what he was doing! We definitely did not do the above intervals. We did 12x200 yes, but not in any which way or order. I know it's difficult to add and subtract and keep things straight in your head when you are swimming hard though so I don't fault him. The anal part of me was annoyed but the rational part knew that we did 12x200 and if anything the workout was harder (he erred on too little rest) than it should have been which is fine.
That was it for training on Monday, other than some core exercises when I got home from work. Good thing too because it was blazing hot outside!
Swim workout #2 - this morning
3000 meters total (600 meter warmup/300 meter cooldown)
3 sets of (5x100 and then 200 IM) where the 100s were:
1x100 w/25 m stroke hard
1x100 w/50 m stroke hard
1x100 w/75 m stroke hard
1x100 stroke hard
1x100 easy
My "stroke" was backstroke today. When we were swimming easy I did all free. My IM consisted of free/back/breast/free. Not a traditional IM no, but when one doesn't know how to swim fly, one makes up their own IM. :)
This afternoon/evening I'll be doing the crit race at the oval. It should be hot but I keep telling myself it would be much worse if it was a track workout or a running race or even an easy run! At least with cycling you create your own wind fan. :)
Hope everyone has a great night!
Posted by beth at July 18, 2006 1:14 PM