Did you swim today?
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Today: 1 mile @ 77 minutes2
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3600 yards @ 78 minutes1
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Late afternoon workout. Crowded lanes and borderline too-hot temperature and two almost foot cramp.0
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4 miles today. First 40 laps was able to maintain slightly faster than 1:50/100.
Lungs felt good. Still a little residual coughing.
But no weakness or feeling short of breath.
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@fishgutzy - wow, what a nice come back from your bronchitis!
3600 yards @ 76 minutes. Good news is I am meeting people at the pool. Bad news is they want to talk...
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2700 yards in 72 minutes.1
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I tried the proper lap swim, yesterday; after four laps, I went back to the free-swim area. Sooo intimidating. I have... (counts on fingers) ...seven more chances to try, before I start my new job...except I strained my shoulder trying to control a friend's crazy dog yesterday, and I'm not swimming today.
Out of sheer stubbornness, I shall spend the hour watching swim technique videos. 1 -
MightyLolo wrote: »I tried the proper lap swim, yesterday; after four laps, I went back to the free-swim area. Sooo intimidating. I have... (counts on fingers) ...seven more chances to try, before I start my new job...except I strained my shoulder trying to control a friend's crazy dog yesterday, and I'm not swimming today. Out of sheer stubbornness, I shall spend the hour watching swim technique videos.
You can do it!2 -
Triathlon swim Club.
10 x 50m Kick Drills working on Technique. Instructor break on each 50.
10 x 50m Pull, Pool Buoy. Instructor break on each 50.
3 x 60 StrokeTimeDistance ( STD ) 1st at 60%, 2nd at 75%, 3rd All out effort.
At 60-75% effort my distance/time ratio was pretty close to the same 65 - 72 meters @ 1:20
All out effort 61m @ 1:10. Partial loss of distance was due to fatigue, faster pace = less glide = less distance. The fastest swimmer in our group had the Biggest reduction in distance from 89m to 77m, don't know what her time was.
200m all out front crawl 4:32.
Then we worked on Flip Turns. I just switched goggles as the manufacture change the style of my old goggles and the new style doesn't work for my flat face - fills up with water. The new goggles have smaller eyepieces which results in a smaller field of view. So when I go to do flip turns my visual cues are all wrong now so I am learning the Flip turns cues all over again. In one of my turns today I was late on the turn and my feet hit the wall above the water line, if I had pushed off it would have drove me right to the bottom of the pool. Another good workout.1 -
@juliet3455 flip turns freak me out -- I was doing them a year ago but now I'm less interested than ever. Since I'm working toward an open water swim this summer, I don't worry about them. But I know I would get faster times... conflicted.
Tonight I thought I was going to break my PR on 1500 yds from last January but came up almost 30 seconds slow. 2500 yds in 56 minutes for the whole swim. Thinking that the biking is not helping the swimming. Frustrating, because I want to mix the two.0 -
2300m
400 warmup
4x 100 back as 25 swim 25 drill
4x 75 fly
200 as alt back/fly
200 free
4x 100IM
200 back
200 breaststroke
Bit more fly than I would want but not a bad session. Turns are starting to be less painful so hopefully the back injury is on the mend.1 -
I swam laps for 20 minutes last night while my son had his swimming lessons. This was at a pool closer to my house that I don't normally swim laps in, and thank goodness because it is just gross. There's so much stuff floating around....soooo much. And I can feel the chlorine even just walking in. They're both YMCA's , but do you think the difference is that the gross one has way more kid traffic than the one I normally use? It's a lot bigger and more kid friendly and has more aquatic classes (a lot more old people too) and they even had out a canoe yesterday in the deep end. What do your pools look like underwater? I'm still grossed out, lol.0
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@MonkeyMel21 Usually the last and first item on the pool schedule is lane swim- so in the am the water is crystal clear after a night of filtration/chemical balancing. In the evening lane swim its not pretty especially following a public swim. If we go into the pool after the kids have been in it is definitely a MESS. Bandages, UFOs ( unidentified floating objects ), hair, goggles etc, etc . They usually bring out the pole net and catch all the UFO's. But the pool water is always murky for at least an hour.0
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juliet3455 wrote: »@MonkeyMel21 Usually the last and first item on the pool schedule is lane swim- so in the am the water is crystal clear after a night of filtration/chemical balancing. In the evening lane swim its not pretty especially following a public swim. If we go into the pool after the kids have been in it is definitely a MESS. Bandages, UFOs ( unidentified floating objects ), hair, goggles etc, etc . They usually bring out the pole net and catch all the UFO's. But the pool water is always murky for at least an hour.
I didn't even think about the time of day! You're right, I have been in that pool in the mornings before and don't remember being so grossed out. This pool is huge so there's often classes, open swim, and lap swim all at the same time, in the evenings add two to three groups of swim lessons too (they were the ones with the canoe last night plus my son's private swim lesson). I've never been in my normal pool after 7 am.
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4 miles today.
2000, 2000 front crawl
500 kick board and fins
500 hand pads and fins
2050 front crawl2 -
Was in the water but I don't think it qualifies as a Swim.
Just couldn't get in the groove and was a constant struggle, felt like I was always early or late on breathing and flip turns are still out of sync. Breast stroke was no better. Back was like a drunk trying to walk the line - all over the place. kick lengths were no better. Just one of those days.
Still managed to spend a full 90 minutes in the pool. Lost track of what my lengths are. Probably at least 60 ~ 1500m. 3 -
A bad day in the pool beats sitting on the couch!
Didn't swim today. Rode to work and back instead. Trying to get ready for a big ride in late summer.3 -
C1200m - 45 minutes of catching up with The Archers omnibus...still struggling to get the ear pieces to stay nicely in place tho
Biked home back up the steep hill way today.. Mmmm, my legs were certainly tired!2 -
4 miles.1
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3600 yards @ 78 minutes.
Is it just me or does cologne and perfume, any scent really, sink down to the pool surface and then seem to magnify? Today I was dying for a few minutes when someone walked in with way too much perfume, but the life guard could not smell it. Hmmmmm.0 -
Montepulciano wrote: »3600 yards @ 78 minutes.
Is it just me or does cologne and perfume, any scent really, sink down to the pool surface and then seem to magnify? Today I was dying for a few minutes when someone walked in with way too much perfume, but the life guard could not smell it. Hmmmmm.
Congrats on a very nice pace.
And yeah, the scent does come down and float on the water. Last year there was a mom who would sit 20 feet from the pool's edge that had the worst smelling perfume. It actually made me gag and I had to leave a couple of times when I couldn't move to another lane...
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Swam 1 mile yesterday and 2 miles today (62 minutes) then biked 9 miles. Time to walk to the store to get a few groceries.1
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Worked on crawl stroke today, after a week (ish) of concentrating on butterfly. I feel like it got ever so slightly easier all on its own despite my shoulder still being very sore. I divided my time between the "easy" lane and the free swim area, and I can't help noticing I swim better in the free swim area, just out of confidence. I'm going to the early morning lap swim tomorrow, even if all I do is watch for a while. 2
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Got in the pool but very distracted and not feeling it. Did a few 50y intervals with increasing pace. Burnt some calories but otherwise not very useful. 2000y in 43 minutes of swimming. More rests than I'm used to doing.0
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2400m
200 warmup
10x 200 as
1 and 6 200 free negative split
2 and 7 200IM
3 and 8 200 br as 100 kick 100 swim
4 and 9 200 back negative split
5 and 10 8x 25 fly on 35
30 seconds rest between each 200
100 easy after number 5 and 10
Tough session!!!1 -
Missed logging Yesterdays Triathlon Swim Club.
100m Pull, 100m Crawl, 100m Kick as warm-up.
Broken 200m Pyramid sets. Flip turns in deep end.
8 x 25m @ 45
4 x 50m @ 1:15
2 x 100m @ 2:30
1 x 200m @ 4:00
2 x 100m @ 2:30
4 x 50m @ 1:15
8 x 25m @ 45
4 x 25m Breathing on 3 outbound,5 inbound
Rest
400m Timed Swim; 10:12.
8 people in a double lane: Picture 2 People swimming shoulder to shoulder outbound on the Right side of the lane and then inbound on the far Left side of the lane. This was done to imitate the crowded swimming conditions at the mass start of a Triathlon and the boost you get from drafting a slightly faster swimmer and how difficult it is to pass a swimmer who is ahead of you. On every inbound length the person in 2nd row would try to pass the person in-front of them. You also got the rebound waves from the edge of the pool, waves being created by the Coach's/Life Guard's and the side current from where the water slide recovery pool dumps back into the main pool.
300 warm up + 1500m of drills + 400m = 2200m.1 -
Barely 2000 meters but I was happy because I had missed about a week of swimming do to parties, concerts and social events which involved lots of eating and drinking.
Boy I needed that swim this morning and I feel so much better.3 -
Swim class today; shoulder so sore I didn't even get in the water yesterday. New job starts in 47 hours. I'm truly excited about this amazing job (and fairly passionate about rent and groceries, come to that), but I'm afraid I'll lose my swimming momentum. I'm going to check out an expensive and pretentious athletic club (no mere gym, this) around the corner from the new job, that has a reputable aquatics program. I'd rather pay too much, than give up.3
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@MightyLolo - it is rather addictive and do take care of your shoulder. Good luck at the new job!1
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finally found time to get a longer swim done. 3150 yards in 70 minutes. Felt so nice and loved outlasting the sprinters in the lanes around me...added bonus, getting it all done before the thunderstorm closed the pool!3
