once again, the pool and I have reignited our love affair. I am happy to say that I made it to early morning swimteam. finally. it has been far too long.
that being said, todays workout totally kicked my slacker butt. though I didn't feel like my body forgot how to swim, actually swimming was very tiring. I hung in there, though. we did a lot of IM sets. our coach wanted to torture us today by putting IM sets back to back with reverse IM sets, pretty much making us swim the fly twice in a row. brutal. but that also meant that sometimes we would be swimming freestyle twice in a row, kinda like a holiday. (or so I pretended) anyway, it felt good to be back in the water. even if it was at six am. even if my muscles were screaming. it is so good for me. plus I love smelling like chlorine.
500 warmup
6 100's (50 kick/50 drill; the odds - freestyle, the evens - fly, back, breast)
100 IM
200 free
2X100 IM (IM, reverse IM)
200 free
3X100 IM (IM, reverse IM, IM)
200 free
4X100 IM (IM, reverse IM, IM, reverse IM)
200 free
100 cooldown
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When my wife was a competitive swimmer she used to say if she licked the back of her hand and smelled it she could smell chlorine. Of course she told me to try it and as soon as I began to sniff she pushed my hand right into my nose. Ahhh, young love. Anyway, when I started swimming a lot I tried her experiment when I was alone and didn't fear the face mush, and it think it really works...I smell chlorine when I tried it!
chris, I know! I totally do that all the time! (though I try to do it in private because it looks a little odd to be licking yourself and then smelling your skin) I think my husband thinks I'm weird for doing it. but I really do love the smell of chlorine on my skin!
glad I'm not the only crazy swimmer out there ;)
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