Did you swim today?
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2 miles in 80 minutes, a very nice swim for the most part. Tried to do it non-stop but had to avoid a lane collision.
Hope you're better soon @girlwithcurls2 -- my time for The Crud is usually when all the college students arrive in the fall. I think the regular chlorine rinse has helped me avoid getting a cold in the last year. Also knocked back my usual spring hay fever.0 -
Nice long swim this afternoon - 3km in 62 mins then a further 550m mixed. Felt good to just have a nice long unbroken swim rather than sprints etc. Will try to do this once a week.0
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Haven't swum in over a week. Lost my mojo, enthusiasm, everything.....0
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Got my mole on yesterday and today. Some new tunes mixed in on Audioflood. I was in the zone and am so grateful. Two per lane ! A dream !!0
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Haven't swum in over a week. Lost my mojo, enthusiasm, everything.....
Oh emma...
You have had so much going on with injuries, pressures to perform, etc. Make sure you cut yourself some slack. If one of us was feeling like you are, what would you tell us? Be kind to yourself. I'd hate to see the joy sucked out of swimming for you. You've got a whole fan club here, you know. From around the world!! 
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2.5km this afternoon - pool was a bit warm so everything was a little sluggish
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girlwithcurls2 wrote: »Haven't swum in over a week. Lost my mojo, enthusiasm, everything.....
Oh emma... You have had so much going on with injuries, pressures to perform, etc. Make sure you cut yourself some slack. If one of us was feeling like you are, what would you tell us? Be kind to yourself. I'd hate to see the joy sucked out of swimming for you. You've got a whole fan club here, you know. From around the world!!
Dear Emma, sorry to read this.... I agree with everything girlswithcurls said, you do have a lot going on. Maybe you should take a break and get back to swimming when you are ready. We'll be here waiting to find out about your awesome swims when you get back in the water.0 -
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@emmab0902 @girlwithcurls2 is completely right. Swimming is a tough sport. Sometimes we need some time and space to rest before getting back in.
I don't know YOU, particularly, but there are people whom I love quite a bit from whom that sort of talk is also a concern about various mood issues where some TLC from self an others can be a bit of a help.0 -
Welcome back mpeters!!!mpeters1965 wrote: »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.
Yep there are days like those! You just push through best you can and wait for a better swim next time, and focus on what you need to fix/ maintain especially when you're tired!juliet3455 wrote: »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.NoelFigart1 wrote: »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...
Not to worry. It will take awhile as your body adjusts. Give it time. You'll look back and be amazed at how far you've come, and the work it took to get there!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.
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.
I'm the opposite - trying to bring in sprints into my routine to break the long swims, and hopefully build up my anaerobic fast twitch muscles!Nice long swim this afternoon - 3km in 62 mins then a further 550m mixed. Felt good to just have a nice long unbroken swim rather than sprints etc. Will try to do this once a week.
A break is always good. Just time to rest your body and heal!Haven't swum in over a week. Lost my mojo, enthusiasm, everything.....
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Back in the pool to start the week!
2.5km in 57 min.
After the last swim last Thursday (which was sprints) my body felt sore throughout the rest of the weekend especially my legs! I guess I use my legs a lot more during the sprints than I do with the long swims!
But the rest did help, as the swim felt quite relaxed today!
Not looking forward to all the gasping at tomorrow's sprints!
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Mixed sort of swim this morning. 1km free. 250m sprint, rest, 200m, 150, 100, 50 and repeat. All good.0
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Slacker workout this morning. I was going to have to take the bus to work today as Darlin' Hoosband had the car for something else.
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It felt beautiful just to swim without pushing hard. While it's a bit irritating that the difference between just relaxing and gliding v. pushing like crazy is really only a couple of seconds per 100, it does have me rethinking my training a bit.0 -
At last - a chance to be back in the pool. 40 mins, I guess about 1K (not counting). Quite a few moments of 'just one more lap' (!), but overall a good swim and I felt suitable tired after.
Managed to get the earphones to stay in this time (after a bit of gogle support!), now I have to battle with getting the nano thingy to play the right podcast....(downloaded a few 'story' episodes, all 75 mins long, not sure how to get to be mid-episode either ..). Fiddling with controls behind my right ear Is proving a bit hit and miss so far! But having a story during the swim is great.0 -
Hi everyone! I just posted a question to this wonderful group in a new thread. Any tips to get faster? Thanks!0
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Monday and Tuesday-- 54 laps/~72 minutes0
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Today 46 minutes of sprints with some school kids!
Hard work, but the sprints I did on my own certainly helped as they were harder than these so I was able to keep up, except the butterfly lengths where I was faster initially but by the last lengths, I couldn't complete a length of butterfly!
I haven't swum butterfly or backstroke in a long while and it showed. So I guess the joint training was good, so my body gets used to the butterfly, back and breast again, rather than just the usual freestyle!0 -
Go AQ !
( Actually I misread this totally (I've had a bit of a day..,) and genuinely thought you meant you were at an athletics track running hard with a bunch of teenagers..... I think it was me realising I was trying to work out how to do butterfly on a track dry land that made me realise it was really time to hit the sack..! Just don't tell anyone, ok? )
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Lessons, Mixed Drills. Since my Backstroke is my Weakest Stroke overall and my front call kick does not qualify as a kick that's what I have been concentrating on.
1200m 50 mins. only 6 people of 10 showed up so lots of space in the lanes.
Legs are dragging today as some fool was in Edmonton on the weekend for the Hypothermic Half Marathon 185 / 416. 2:12:59:00. Pretty much a duplicate to my previous Half Marathon Time.1 -
Our neighborhood pool is being nice and letting a youth swim team practice during our (usually) light evening lap swim. Being in the pool next to really fast kids is kind of fun. They separate them from us mostly old and slowpokes. Having to share lanes with other lap swimmers is not so much fun. I know, I'm spoiled. Anyhow, being next to the fast kids netted me a PR for 100y. Then cramps set in and I couldn't quite make my target. 2950 yds in 66 minutes swim time.0
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Slightly shorter swim this morning (had to get into work a little earlier than normal). 250m warm-up, 2 x 100m sprints, 10x50m sprints, 6 x 75m sprints (all my sprints now incorporate tumble turns as I never used to bother with them) then a few more mixed lengths and at that point I lost count.0
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Forgot to post yesterdays swim!
1800m in 50 mins
300 mixed warmup
100 kick
3x100 IM
100 kick
4x50 free on 60s
400 free with fins
100 kick
300 mixed cool down
Went in the evening to the outdoor pool which was a bit of a change as I normally do a morning swim. It was so much busier! I'm out of practice swimming with lots of other people making splashes and managed to almost drown myself on several occasions with mistimed breaths. On the plus side I got to use my new fins for the first time. I had to adjust my tempo a bit to accommodate them and think it will take a few goes to find the correct stroke and timing rhythm to use with them.
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1000m 60min, all freestyle.
Forcing myself to not rotate to other less demanding strokes for "resting" had a couple of notable impacts this morning. Obviously, I didn't get in as many laps. What I consider more important though is that I improved my technique a lot during the laps I did do. There's much to be said in the exhaustion/desperation that comes from just pushing on ahead in that it really makes you aware of where you're wasting energy and thus oxygen. My posture improved, my kicking improved, and my breathing control greatly improved. Now to just start out with that on Friday.0 -
I'm still lacking in enthusiasm for swimming but I swam about 45 minutes, mixed sets this morning. Did 6 timed 50-yard sets in the middle of it all trying to get faster each time. That never seems to work but I started at 1:08 on the first and stayed around 1:04ish for the remaining 5. I didn't have it in me to all-out sprint this morning and that's what it takes to get me under a minute. That and a faster pool. I didn't used to believe there was a difference but I seem to have better times in our other pool and at the few other Y's I have visited in the state.
Good job everybody! I still like to read what you all are doing even though I haven't felt like doing much myself.
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Wednesday - laborious 2.5 km about 57 min
Today
Warm up - 165 m
10 x 66m on 1:45
10 x 33m on 0:50
10x 33m on 0:50
Warm down - 165 m
In the past 2 weeks I have lost 2 of 5 stubborn kilos I gained in the run up to December which I've been trying to lose ever since. So I'm suspecting the interval training has shaken things up and activated some losses!
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One of the Pools I go to has a 10 meter Diving platform so it is really deep = nice and cold, and I always swim faster in it than in my home pool.mpeters1965 wrote: »That and a faster pool. I didn't used to believe there was a difference but I seem to have better times in our other pool and at the few other Y's I have visited in the state.
Swim Lessons tonight. Multiple drills. 1200 meters. Flip Turn Still needs work, Backstroke Turn doesn't exist.
Diving entry off the deck I have the Belly Flop and Chest Smack perfected. One drill I really enjoy is the Stroke Count - Max Distance - Timed. They would time a 60 stroke swim and approximately measure our distance in meters, the goal was to travel as far as possible with the minimum time. So you get a Meters/sec and a Meters/Stroke ratio. This really helps give us a feel for Stroke Efficiency.0 -
I am out of the water for a few days at the moment. I have developed my first ever stye in my eye - and unfortunately for me it is right where my goggles sit so I can't wear them (too painful). Hopefully it clears up quickly!0
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2km (whoohoo!) in 45 mins
400 mixed warmup
400 kick with fins
4x100 IM with 20s
200 kick
4x50 free on 60s
100 kick
300 mixed cool down
I got to swim for free this morning which was awesome. There was a bunch of Uni students at the pool dressed in bright colours to raise awareness for mental illness. The lifeguard on duty at reception knew I wasn't with them but told me to pretend I was so I could go in for free. Score!1 -
3.3 km in 90 minutes
400 warm up
8 x (50 + 100) on 1:40 for 100m 50s for 50m
3 x 200 on 3:20 (the 1st and 3rd 200 broken up into 4x50)
4 x 100 kick with fins, sprint last 25m
4x100 IM on 2min
300m cool down.
I was really pleased with this workout because it was really really tough and wanted to give up a couple of times but didn't. Also, there were a few people in my lane that I struggled to keep up with a couple of months ago and last night I was in front of them. Getting stronger....
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This was an awful swim. But then, in another way, it wasn't.
My shoulders were tighter than a tentrope in the rain, I had to share a lane with a women, who while a lovely person, is flat-out the clumsiest swimmer I have ever seen in my life. Nuttin wrong with being a clumsy swimmer, mind. It's just that swimming by her meant I had to watch out for her crossing the middle of the lane, random sideways kicks and so on.
But, hey, she paid as much to be in the pool as I did, so... I'm not going to be That Person, yaknow?
Anyway, my shoulders are tight, I am tenser than usual when I started swimming and I was feeling cranky and kind of clumsy, myself, in the water.
But I still did the best I was capable of in that moment (even if it was hardly brilliant). And I know come June, whether or not TODAY was a brilliant swim won't mean a thing.
That I got in, did my planned distance and stuck with it? Oh yeah, that's going to matter a great deal.1
