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July 3, 2006
Long Swim
Our swim coach is away this week so one of the guys that swims with the group told us the workout. He started off by saying that his arms were pretty tired from racing this weekend (most of the group did a 2 mile open water swim race on Saturday) and then told us today's workout would be a little on the easier side. And then he told us the workout. 9x300 meters. Hmm.. I did the multiplication in my head about 10 times and then decided that indeed that was a 2700 meter set, the longest I've ever done. I had already warmed up with 800 meters of swimming. Heck - I was going to get away with one short cooldown today! :)
Actually, I don't complain about long, slower workouts. I do better on those than the really fast stuff without much rest. ("really fast" being a relative term of course... :)
The 300s were in done in 3 sets of 3
3x300 on 6
3x300 on 5:45
3x300 on 5:30
I only did a 100 meter cooldown and still had 3600 meters for the day. Sweet.
I did almost every single 300 in 5 minutes. It was kind of funny. The last one I did in 4:59. What's up with that? I obviously had to exert more effort towards the end with less rest and increasingly tired wings, but I still thought it was fun that I did consistent 5s.
I also found out today that one of the women that swims with our group completed Ironman Coeur d'Alene last weekend in 10:25:17 including a bike split of 5:23:30 and a marathon split of 3:43:24. That's sick! I can think of a whole heck of a lot of people that would like to run a marathon in 3:43 period, let alone swimming 2.4 miles first and then riding your bike for 112 miles and oh did I mention by the time they were running the temps were up in the high 80s and into the 90s? I can't wait to talk with her when she gets back, although I suspect she may not be around for a while. No telling how long it takes to recover from an Ironman. She won her age group (40-44) but must have turned down her spot for Hawaii as she wasn't listed as a Hawaii qualifier. Crazy stuff folks!
Posted by beth at July 3, 2006 8:23 PM