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October 2, 2006
Back to the Long Course
I haven't swam with the masters group on a Monday for quite a while. Monday was either my day off or a running day as of late. So I kind of forgot that the pool is set up long course on Mondays. What a pleasant surprise! I much prefer the 50 meter pool vs the 25 yarder. Good stuff.
There were two options for the workout this morning. They were either (1) 700, 600, 500, 400, 300, 200, 100 or (2) 600, 500, 400, 300, 200, 100. I was in a lane with 3 other triathletes coming off long seasons. We all took a look at each other and without saying a word knew were were starting with a 600. :)
The workout was to be done as a ________. Now, there is a word to describe this type of workout that would fill in that blank but I don't know what that word is. Maybe someone who actually knows something about swimming might help me out here. Basically how it's done is while you are swimming the 600 you look at your 500 split and then swim the 500 faster than that split and then while you are swimming the 500 you look at your 400 split and swim the 400 faster than that and so on and so forth. Basically it all adds up to starting out at a moderate pace and then swimming progressively harder. Progressively harder on tired arms. Swimming workouts are tricky like that.
Anyway, my group did the workout just right - started out swimming probably 1:40/100 meter for the 600 and progressively getting down to about 1:23/100 meter for the last 100. I love swimming with the people I was swimming with this morning. They are better than me (especially on the fast days) but not so much that I have to KILL myself to keep up. This means I never have to lead the workout. That, my friends, is key. Plus, they are all triathletes so we can talk shop in between intervals. Much better than fraternizing with pure swimmers. :)
So yeah, that was my morning. I actually got in 3500 meters total with my warmup and cooldown. It doesn't happen every time I swim but I can usually get pretty into my swim workouts and just not want to get out. I love to race but what has probably been the thing that has helped me achieve any success that I've enjoyed is that I love to train too. I really love to train. I really, really love to train. :)
Good night all!
Posted by beth at October 2, 2006 7:46 PM