Did you swim today?
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1 km of sprints!
33 x 30m on 0:45 deteriorating to "on 0:50"!
Break after each 10 lengths!0 -
Half the lights were out in the pool last night, making my difficult to read watch pretty much invisible. It was one of those sessions that I thought was going really well, but ended really being a slower pace. 2550 y in 58 minutes.0
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Pool temp problems all last week, but a good 54 laps today!0
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pool Temp problemsrosebarnalice wrote: »Pool temp problems all last week, but a good 54 laps today!
It was Nice and cold so I could put my head down and paddle long and hard. Lessons so mixed drills. Breast, Front and Back.
1500 m in 50 mins. Felt really good
The Bad - Hot Tub was bathtub warm not Hot Tub Hot.0 -
Hello everyone - still haven't been swimming but Dad is now out of hospital which is good.
On the not so good side I also went to see a specialist yesterday about some hand and arm pain and apparently this is due to a thoracic outlook restriction something or other which the Doc believes was brought on by my sternum injury last September. The Doc made me do some simple movements to test flexibility (which I was fine with) but this morning my sternum is painful again, so I will stay out of the water for another few days to rest it. Physio is not booked for another couple of weeks though, so when I do swim again it will be "light swimming" if there is such a thing
And as for the five people circle swimming - to me that is more the norm than the exception - its OK when everyone is roughly the same speed, but gets painful when there are faster/slower swimmers - luckily the lanes are large enough that you can overtake whilst circle swimming provided there are no swimmers that are flaying their arms about.
Good idea to rest and let the body recuperate!
Glad Dad out of hospital
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Proper swim this morning as there were only three of us in a lane.
500m free
10 x 50m sprints on 65 secs
250m breast
250m back
5 x 100m sprints on 2mins 10
200 cooldown0 -
1500 40:55. Not my most brilliant swim. OTOH, when I'm out in SF Bay, my body will be glad this one HAPPENED!0
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1500m (30 laps), 60mins, alternating breaststroke, sidestroke, freestyle laps.0
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4 miles every day this week so far. One of those days was back at my old Y and in 86 degree water. Feels good going in but I can feel the heat coming off my head when I pause. I like the 78-79 degrees of my usual YMCA.
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4 miles every day this week so far. One of those days was back at my old Y and in 86 degree water. Feels good going in but I can feel the heat coming off my head when I pause. I like the 78-79 degrees of my usual YMCA.
I don't feel like I've had a good workout unless my hair is hot when I take off my cap!0 -
NoelFigart1 wrote: »I don't feel like I've had a good workout unless my hair is hot when I take off my cap!
A lot harder to do that in a 78 degree pool.
I love it cool.
One day last year, the heater shut down and required a manual restart in the morning. The pool was 73 degrees. Took a couple extra laps to warm up but it was great.0 -
*chuckles* Honey, that happens in open water swims for me. I heat up easy.0
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I wish...... Poorly child, poorly parents. (Glad your dad out of hospital Panda). Hey ho.
Next week I guess...0 -
1000y, not sure of the time. I wasn't feeling great, but wanted to get into the pool. Holy cow. It felt so good. I decided not to push it, since I've been feeling under the weather for a couple of days.0
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2.5 km Wednesday! much slower than usual. I guess the body was making adjustments following the sprints on Tuesday! Today I anticipate a training session with coach and some kids, but will see if that materializes! If not, I'll just do my own sprints!
Having the Garmin really helps keep track of times in interval type trainng, which it was tricky to do previously having to mentally calculate rest intervals on my previous digital wristwatch even as I was gasping for breath!0 -
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Hi Aquatic - 3 people is no problem - its just about the timing but as the other swimmers in the lane were about the same speed as me I didn't have a problem. Anymore than that though and its nigh on impossible!0
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1500 40:17.
I am getting to prefer longer freestyle sets. I also mapped out a mile on a lake I like to swim in anticipation of the open water training season. Unfortunately, I won't be getting in earlier than mid-May or so. I'm already chomping at the bit.0 -
AquaticQuests wrote: »
If I was swimming with someone close to my pace, I used to ask if they wanted to join me, or sometimes I was asked if I wanted to join someone on a set. Sometimes it works out great and you find a new lane buddy and someone who will help you push yourself and other times it helps clear out a lane if they don't take you up on your offer.0 -
One of those days where the laps just flew by. I was deep in the zone, feeling the rhythm, grooving to my "AffirmaBet", and before you know it, 54 laps and 72 minutes were up!0
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I went back to the pool today after two weeks out. I was just not feeling it the last few weeks and when I got in the pool at 6:00am today, I still wasn't. I swam for about 50 minutes of mixed sets and it seemed really really slow, even for a turtle like me. On the plus side, the morning lifeguard was giving me grief about laying around in bed and acting like a snowbird, etc. I've been swimming in that pool a long time now and it's always a nice feeling to know that somebody notices you are missing.0
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Swim lessons 1500m of torture. The pool was really warm today so it was a real struggle to get through it and had a bad case of heavy legs.
Loved the last drill. Stroke Efficiency. You do a timed 60 strokes and then stop.
Measure out your approximate distance and time to figure a distance/stroke/time ratio.0 -
Yesterday (Thursday):
330m warm up
10 x 66m on 1:40
10 x 33m on 0:50
10 x 33m on 0:50
132m warm down
Just getting back into the swing of things on the sprint/ intervals side of things and this set was just a killer for me.
Felt completely exhausted after the swim, like I've not felt in a long time.
I guess I also use my legs in the sprint a whole lot more than I would usually do!
Anyway, will continue plugging away as I try to reacclimatise my body to the crazy high heart rate, gasping for breath throughout, etc that is sprinting!0 -
39:51 1500 yds.
In the "How to make a swimmer giddy" department:
Woman in gym: Hey, I was reading Swimming to Antarctica. Have you read it?
Me: Oh yeah, it's awesome. Lynne Cox is amazing.
Woman in gym: It made me think of you when I was reading it.
Me: (a rare moment of speechlessness)
Now you guys see my workouts and know I'm totally not in Cox' league, but woah...1 -
60 mins, 30 laps (1500m)
I just wasn't feeling it today on my swim. Today was the day I had hoped to break 33 laps to ready 1650. I'm not sure if it is because the intensity of my cardio on my non swimming days has picked up, I added in a mile walk with the dog after work, or simply because it's the end of the work week and I'm frankly a little tired and worn out.
I got to lap 24, alternating my 3 strokes like usually when it was obvious that I not only wasn't going to hit 33 laps in 60 mins, but I wasn't even going to match my total from Wednesday. At this point I switched to freestyle and just stuck with it from laps 25-30. So, ultimately, I took something that was potentially discouraging and used it for motivation and in the end I learned that I can keep doing laps freestyle and the added consecutive distance helped me get better control of my breathing and form.
It also reminded me that I'm getting somewhat caught up in performance which it is really way to early for. I'm better served to remember that 3 weeks ago I was completely sedentary, and 2 weeks ago I decided to change that.1 -
From sedentary to pushing a mile in a couple of weeks. - wow you should be pleased with that UG.
But I liked your phrase 'I'm getting somewhat caught up in performance'...as it reminded me if I stayed in that I mindset I would give up swimming tomorrow.
(I I have Chronic Fatigue and swimming has become a way to get better, and stay happy. It used to be a 'how good can I get / when will I get to swim a mile / how fast will I be'.. Nowadys I still aim to swim a mile, and do it in a reasonable time - but frankly that is all it is, an aim, that I will take whatever time my body needs to reach.)
Missing my swims this week - hope your travels go well Gutzy.....
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gentlygently wrote: »wow you should be pleased with that UG
I am pleased when I stay cognizant of what I've done. It's just the typical mindset I think a lot of people have that wants to focus on what they haven't done or what they don't have.
I'm trying to shift that mindset while I shift my body. It's a work in progress.
I'm sorry to hear about the chronic fatigue. That is a big obstacle. I had it for years. The only thing I found that helped to mitigate it somewhat was making nutrient dense foods like vegetables and fruit my dietary focus instead of dietary after thought. I don't know if that'll work for everyone, it helped me but my chronic fatigue came from hyperparathyroidism and the long list of bad things that did to my body. I had the rogue gland removed July 21st.
They said it can take over 2 years for my bone density to build back up. I take large doses of calcium now and I'm hoping that enough have been rectified in the past seven months that when I start lifting my bones can take it.
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I've been struggling a lot this past week with my laps, my body just feels really heavy and my muscles are getting tired so easily. I just got some fancy whey protein powder (NOW Foods pure whey) to supplement with after swimming, and also I've been upping my calories a bit on swim days so I hope that helps. I recently discovered Wii fit and also got a Zumba game, so I kind of blame that for wearing me out on non-swim days bwahaha. I really need to be strict with myself about taking a rest day but computer games are so much fun!!!
Yesterday I was really cruising on my kickboard laps!! I'm down to just under 2 minutes per lap on those!! My front crawl endurance is also improving, I can do 4 laps without having to stop for more than a second or 2 to catch my breath at the end of each lap. Yesterday, I mixed it up more with doing front crawl in sets of 4 laps (200 yards in the pool I use) and then breaking it up with 100 yards of breast stroke or kickboard on my back. Sure I didn't get as many laps in but I think I'm getting a better full body workout.
So yesterday my workout was:
Warmup (400 yards):
200 yards front kickboard
200 yards front pulls
Main (800 yards):
200 yards front crawl
100 yards breast stroke
100 yards back kickboard
400 yards front crawl
Cooldown (200 yards):
50 yards front kick
50 yards front pull
50 yards back kickboard
50 yards breast stroke1 -
Blustery evening in the pool last night. I just wanted to crank out the laps and turn my brain off. Slower pace: 2700 yds in 63 minutes. Totally worth the brain rinse. Only one other person in the pool.0
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No swimming for me since Thursday. I work with special needs preschoolers, and after weeks of facing (literally) their sneezes and coughs, I spent my February week off with The Crud. Hoping to get back in on Monday, but this thing is hanging on...
Great swims, folks. @mmmpork , I know that feeling of a good swim. I'm a new swimmer, so the good days carry me for a long time. The beauty of middle age for me has been that the crappy days are just that, but they don't stick. Even if they come and stay for a while, any day in the pool is a good day 1
