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July 27, 2006
More Meters
More swimming this morning, this time another 3000 meters of fun and games with my early morning friends. I'll have to say - when getting up early in the morning for a workout - swimming is my preferred sport. Just seems easier to ease into I guess. Easier to wake up too when you are jumping into a cold body of water.
Today's workout:
3000 meters total (700 meters warmup/300 meters cooldown)
4 sets of:
4x50 (kick, stroke for distance, hard, easy) - on 1:15
3x100 (descending) - on 2
My 100s usually were on the order of 1:34-1:35 for the first of each set, 1:32-1:33 for the 2nd and 1:28-1:30 for the 3rd. Not too much faster each time, but faster nonetheless.
The sad story for the day is that the beautiful 50 meter pool that I've been swimming in for the past 2.5 months is going to be drained and repainted and shut down for the whole month of August. BOOO!!! We can still swim in the warmup pool however when I took a look at it today I figured the longest it could possibly be is 20 yards. It looks so tiny! And it's hot. I'll give it a try on Monday for practice because I want to continue to swim with the same people but if it's too troublesome I can always go back to swimming at the YMCA by myself. I guess I'll see how it all shakes out.
Regardless the swim was my only workout for the day thankfully. I also only have one workout tomorrow (a run) and then triathlon #3 on Saturday! The race on Saturday is another smallish type deal and also a YMCA sponsored event (like last time). The swim is in a pool but the bike is longish for a sprint tri - 35K (~22 miles) and is rumored to be hilly. The run is a 5K. I'm excited (as always)!
Posted by beth at July 27, 2006 7:52 PM
Comments
I don't know what it is about these university pools and August... I was evicted at the end of June! (Extra work going on, something to do with air circulation.) I think I'll end up scratching on LCM zones for lack of training.
Posted by: pjm at July 27, 2006 9:36 PM
Good luck tomorrow!! I am keeping my fingers crossed for another win for you. I hope you have a great time!
Posted by: barb at July 28, 2006 11:11 AM