Did you swim today?
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Great to see everyone swimming away, and the return of some who have been on hiatus!
Haven't logged in but I've been swimming.
Last week, long swims mon, wednesday 2.5 km
Sprint interval mixed training Tuesday and Thursday.
Yesterday, it rained and I couldn't swim.
Today 2.5km 57 min with a number of interruptions!
Glad that I'm getting more comfortable with back, breast and butterfly after at least a year away from IM work.
It's putting some new strain on the shoulders and other areas but the break from Thursday to Monday, is usually good enough to let the body heal itself!
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~1500m with the Adult Swim Club. Mixed drills most of them for front crawl.
4 x 50 Alt swim / kick
50/100/200m - 200/100/50m
10 x 25 Alt Breathing 3&5 stroke pattern
4 x 50m on 1:30 pace. ( x3 )
Working on Lengthen the Stroke and improving Breathing Patterns.
A good workout as it is pretty much the same group that we have had all year so the Coach-instructor is very comfortable with us.0 -
1500 40:560
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Swam this morning in a kind of warm, overly-chlorinated indoor pool. *sigh* Three more weeks until they open the outdoor pool. It wasn't a bad swim though. About 45 minutes of mixed sets and I had the lane to myself for nearly half of it. I'm told our Y has a new aquatics director (they turn them over pretty frequently) so here is hoping again that they bring back morning Masters.
Just keep swimming everybody!0 -
Didn't get the extra laps in yesterday. The wife had other plans. So today I'll get the extra laps in.
110 laps in the morning. 5km. 110 after work is the goal.0 -
I swam! My closest pool is closed temporarily and everyone's crowding into the other pool, along with its regular swimmers, so not a lot of laps for me. But just getting in some practice, was a joy.0
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Got the second swim in. 10km for the day0
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Ocean swim - 1.5kms. Saw some seahorses and a stack of fish. It was lush!!1
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32 laps (1600m) in 60 mins
60 mins is the time I arbitrarily picked when I started swimming. My goal was to get to a mile in that time and then push past it. I rapidly got better and close, just a couple of weeks and I was already within spitting distance of a mile but I just couldn't reach it.
I was alternating strokes per lap. 1 lap breast, 1 lap side, 1 lap freestyle. After a few weeks of that I started pushing more and more into freestyle so I could get the pace up and break that stupid mile mark.
Then I had a set back. I started getting vertigo. I'm pretty tolerant to most forms of discomfort but dizziness is something I cannot abide, at all. The effects would linger for rest of the day as well. I thought I was just pushing my body too hard when I was sticking to freestyle.
Well, today I finally swam with ear plugs. It was a revelation. After a few laps of warming up and going through my typical alternating cycle I noticed I wasn't experiencing the precursory feeling I typically would that indicates I'm going to start experiencing vertigo. I started just sticking with freestyle and pushing myself to go faster and faster. Daring, demanding that my body over tax itself and make me start to feel sick and dizzy. Because if all those weeks of suffering and demoralization were because of 3 dollar ear plugs... well.
I crushed through the mile mark finally but more importantly I pushed myself to actual fatigue and burning throughout my muscles because of the best 3 bucks I've ever spent. Now I can really get some work done in the water and see how far I can go in an hour.
TLDR: earplugs made me feel enthusiasm for swimming again1 -
Remember me??!
Must be a well over a month since I was last in the pool (I blame my usual dull health rubbish, compounded by elderly parent responsibilities ....I know some of you know aspects of both of these)
But today I had the time - and the energy - and it was good to be back.
I only did 30 mins in the pool. But i went!!!
Yee hah
Good to see all the swimming that has been going on (I have been checking in on you all from time to time..).
(Ps it has not all been bad. I am now on an activity thread, monthly challenge thing. And Atleast have been able to keep the walking going this time.)
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1 miles @ 79 minutes
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looks like a two-fer week. Got in my swim today, but none tomorrow. Hoping or a long hike in the mountains on Sunday!0
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Did 3 miles Sunday, 1.5 Monday, 2 miles today. May go to the pool early tomorrow morning and see how far I can swim before work. Depends on how the elbow feels.0
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1200m with the Swim Club/lessons. A great workout - until the last 250m when I started to get Cramps - toes and calf. So I had to bail out and become a watcher - rather than an active swimmer.0
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I'm actually proud of having made it out to the "other pool" all of once this week, but I have a diving lesson tomorrow! That should be exciting...and swim class on Sunday. I'm going to try for twice, next week, and the week after, my regular pool opens again.0
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Tough week for getting swims in. Track practice, track meet, after work meetings, volunteer event... BUT--I got a mile in this afternoon, and whoa!!! This was the best swim yet
Holy smokes. I was sharing a lane with a much older, reeeeaaalllly slow gentleman who agreed to share a lane, but wasn't really understanding as there were 3 lanes available when I entered the pool. (In my defense, I knew that the swim team kids were coming in the next 15-20 minutes and I'd have to move. I wanted to be in the slow lane where I belong, and not in the lane next to the kids... as in = open water swimming in a lap pool.) But I digress... I got a mile in, and felt better than ever. I started out with the first 5 laps painfully slow. I think I was trying to let the guy who agreed to share the lane with me know that I wasn't going to create a wake for him or anything. I was asking to join the slow lane because, well, I'm slow. Then... he got out. And I sped up. And oh my, did it feel good. How motivating! I needed that! 0 -
2300m
400 warmup
8x50 as 25 kick 25 swim. 4xfree 4xback on 1.10
Twice through the following set
100 free breathe on 2/4/5/6 by 25 on 2.00
4x25 hard on 45
2x50 easy on 1.10
100 hard on 2.00
2x50 easy on 1.10
4x25 sprint
200 pull
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I got half an hour in this afternoon. For some of you, that might not be worth a trip to the pool, but as a new swimmer, I was pretty happy. Another bean in the jar I took my daughter who has been reluctant to swim lately (and not swimming much when we go--lots of goggle adjustments...) and she had a good swim too. Still felt strong. I'm not sure I was much faster, but I felt faster! 0
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I sort of swam today, in that I took my first ever diving lesson. It was amazing.0
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I managed to get 4 swims in last week, 2 with the team and I can't remember mileage but they were tough, lots of intervals and one on my own at the 50 meter pool. Yesterday I went with my youngest daughter, she has a swimming gala at school on wednesday and wanted to practice dives, sprints and butterfly. For fly she had never actually swum an entire 25 meters so we did quite a few of those, until she told me her arms were falling off lol!
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Did 5 miles this morning. Felt great. Was going to stop after my 2nd bathroom break around 4 miles, but while sitting in the jacuzzi and going over my lap times, I realized I had already done 4.3 miles and I couldn't stop there. Felt so good after sitting in the jacuzzi that I sprinted the last .7 miles. Now I have to be careful not to swim too much over the next several days to keep my shoulder/elbow issues from resurfacing. 10k sometime in my future, but not going to rush it.1
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girswithcurls, I don't think you qualify as a 'new swimmer' any more!girlwithcurls2 wrote: »I got half an hour in this afternoon. For some of you, that might not be worth a trip to the pool, but as a new swimmer, I was pretty happy. Another bean in the jar I took my daughter who has been reluctant to swim lately (and not swimming much when we go--lots of goggle adjustments...) and she had a good swim too. Still felt strong. I'm not sure I was much faster, but I felt faster!
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Nice workout.Did 5 miles this morning. Felt great. Was going to stop after my 2nd bathroom break around 4 miles, but while sitting in the jacuzzi and going over my lap times, I realized I had already done 4.3 miles and I couldn't stop there. Felt so good after sitting in the jacuzzi that I sprinted the last .7 miles. Now I have to be careful not to swim too much over the next several days to keep my shoulder/elbow issues from resurfacing. 10k sometime in my future, but not going to rush it.
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4 miles today.
2x2000
1x2050
1x500 fins and kickboard
1x500 pads and buoy.
Total pool time including pauses and equipment changes, 2:15. Starting to feel like I'm back to normal.
Added a new product to my before swim shake.
Optimum Nutrition AmiN.O. Energy Iced Cafe Vanilla
2 scoops. (the scoops are small)
Used to be just the one scoop of Combat.
Weight room after work today.0 -
Swim class yesterday; spent about 45 minutes working on crawl stroke technique and on endurance. Didn't count total laps, though.0
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54 laps in ~72 minutes.0
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1 mile @ 70 minutes0
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Noon Hour Swim. 60 lengths. 40 crawl, 10 back, 10 breast. 1500m total0
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1500y 40:190
