man, oh man. it's almost ten o'clock and I'm just barely eating dinner. that's never good.
so swimteam was pretty good tonight. I think wednesday nights are my favorite. the coach seems genuinely interested in helping the slower swimmers get better. especially since we have a lot of newbie triathletes.
I only got about 200 meters in for a warmup because I got a little chatty with my friend tori in the next lane. then when we started the drill IM sets. I was the lucky one chosen to lead the lane. I didn't mind that too much. then when we started the 150 sets, the lady that had swam behind me led the lane, which is good because she was much, much faster.
my little arms still feel really tired when I swim. I guess that's good--it's a sign that I'm working them hard. and my legs have been pretty sore today, too. probably from all that running around I did in shoes that were made for running in the 1970's. yeah, shoe technology has come along way since then. but they do look cool, so... whatev. if I had known I would have been running around all day, I probably would have made a different choice in footwear.
okay, back to the main point of this post, the swim workout. we ended with a good hypoxic set. I don't know why, but I love doing these at the end of a workout. I love them even though they completely suck. they hurt. your lungs want to explode. but when I am the only one in the lane that can actually get down to 5 breaths total for 50 meters, it feels pretty awesome. not even the two fast chicks in front of me could do it. I think maybe one other girl was able to take that few of breaths as well. I don't know, it's kind of fun to be totally freaked out at the wall, just wondering if you're even going to come close to making it. then taking that deep breath and just going for it. it's a good way to end a workout.
warmup
50 fly drill
50 fly
50 back drill
50 back
50 breast drill
50 breast
50 free drill
50 free
150 (50 fast, 100 easy)
150 (50 easy, 50 fast, 50 easy)
150 (100 easy, 50 fast)
150 (50 fast, 100 easy)
150 (50 easy, 50 fast, 50 easy)
150 (100 easy, 50 fast)
50 easy
50 breath control (8 breaths)
50 easy
50 breath control (7 breaths)
50 easy
50 breath control (6 breaths)
50 easy
50 breath control (5 breaths)
cooldown
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4 comments:
Wow, you're amazing! That looks like such a hard workout to me. I'm not a super good swimmer and we went to the pool a couple of days ago and it about killed me. (And I didn't even swim very much due to a 2 year old that I had to keep an eye on. Had to trade off with my oldest watching him.) I was so hungry when we went home I thought I'd puke! My hats off to you!
I like that hypoxic section, I'll have to try that on my next swim workout. Hey are you going to the Hyrum workout this Saturday? Going to preview the whole course including the swim, wetsuit mandatory. Let me know if you didn't get the e-mail from them and I'll send it to you with the details.
chris--I'm not going to make it to this saturday's primer workout... that would be nice to go to,though, since I've never done an open water swim. oh well!
and I did get the email and fortunately my friend is letting me borrow her tri wetsuit. hopefully it fits and I can actually swim in it! (I'm going to test it out in the pool beforehand)
are you going up to hyrum this weekend?
i should try some of your swim workouts sometime, minus all the fancy strokes. i can basically only freestyle (unless you count doggy paddle). my swim training for the tri on saturday has consisted of lake swimming once a week. a group of us go out with our kids, half swim, half watch. we basically swim the course. we started with the sprint distance and moved up to the oly distance. last open water tri, i only swam in the pool and swam 2 times a week. and all that training meant nothing when i got in the lake, back and side stroke for me. so hopefully the open water training pays off this time around.
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