Did you swim today?
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6.6km today. Slower than yesterday. But I usually rest on Sunday after a long swim in Saturday.2
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1250m
getting back to feeling properly better now. Had to rush this a bit as needed to be in work for 8am - same issue tomorrow but Weds, Thurs and Fri can be longer! yay3 -
Today: 2 miles = 3600 YD = 3323 M @ 97 MINUTES2
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6.6km last night. Planning to keep this up through Thursday night. Then rest Friday. Then try to up my distance record on Saturday. The targeted distance should take about 6.5 hours.1
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Pool reopened!! 2700y in ~60 min. A bit of a slog, but hooray!! The pool is open!!1
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2700m lunchtime swim
2x 100RIM
4x 75 back (20s)
2x 75 br (20s)
16x 25 fly on 45
6x 125 pull as 75 steady 50 fast on 2.20
3x 150 kick as 100 steady 50 max
300IM (50 fly 100 back 50 br 100 free)
150 warmdown2 -
2km
hah take that needing to be at work for 8am!
I woke up properly, then pool was lovely and cold and I felt fine! woohoo!
500m front crawl
250m breathing to 13
500m with hand paddles
250m mixed legs only then arms only (I can now keep up with someone using hand paddles with just my legs!)
250m with hand paddles
200m front crawl
50m underwater drill - wussed out after 30m - still not back to full breathing capacity yet lol2 -
Today: 1.5 min@ 71 minutes2
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2500m
500m front crawl
250m breathing to 13
500m with hand paddles
250m mixed legs only then arms only
250m with hand paddles
250m front crawl
250m with hand paddles
200m front crawl
50m underwater drill - only 25m in one go
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6.6km last night. Had the highest 7 day total ever. 6 swims, 1 rest day. 46.29km0
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Last night 1200y in 30 minutes. Finally back in the pool last week after more than four months off. Have worked back to where I was at that point, and should be doing my usual mile plus in another week or so. Hard to believe how quickly the speed and distance goes away. Have taken ten seconds/100y off my pace in a week, but it's been a struggle. Winter swim is so awesome. I've missed it!2
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Also, great job everyone. I didn't scroll through everything, but did catch that @fishgutzy did an amazing ten mile swim -- wow!1
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2600m today
400 warmup
12x 100 with 20s rest between as
100 free
100 free kick
100 free pull
100 free
100 free
100 free kick
100 back
100 back kick
100 back pull
100 back
100 back
100 back kick
150 free
150 back
500 free
200 warmdown0 -
girlwithcurls2 wrote: »Pool reopened!! 2700y in ~60 min. A bit of a slog, but hooray!! The pool is open!!
Still waiting.
for our pool to finish maintenance cycle. 0 -
Welcome back, @nuffer ! That must have felt soooo good! Speed and distance seem to slide off a cliff for me, but they also return pretty well if I've kept my conditioning up, which I suspect you do. You'll be back before you know it. If I bothered to put up a profile, it would look remarkably similar to yours (the kids in college, the 1 & 2 mile goals, the sausages hanging up!
). I reached my 2-mile goal last spring, getting my body ready to climb Mt. St. Helens here in the PNW. I tried to get a 2-mile swim in once a week, with the distance for my "regular" swim increasing to a mile + .5. I'm hoping to keep up longer distances over winter when it's hard to get to the pool because it's dark and cold, and my house is warm and cozy.
3300y yesterday. I didn't want to swim that far, but I just used the time I had before the deep water cardio class, and that's where I got. I slept SO deeply.2 -
juliet3455 wrote: »girlwithcurls2 wrote: »Pool reopened!! 2700y in ~60 min. A bit of a slog, but hooray!! The pool is open!!
Still waiting. for our pool to finish maintenance cycle.
Hang in there. It will be clean and beautiful and ready for you. And it will feel great!0 -
1350y in 35 minutes tonight. Seems to be many more people doing evening swim this year. We'll see if they're still coming out in December when it's 40 degrees and raining hard
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3000m
500m front crawl
250m breathing to 13
500m with hand paddles
50m kick
25m arms only
50m kick
25m arms only
50m kick
50m arms only
250m with hand paddles
250m front crawl
250m with hand paddles
500m front crawl
5x50m intervals - was chasing a lady who is very fast, she has 10 second breaks in between hers so I was getting around 5 seconds lol fun though. (she offered that I could tag along, I wasn't stalking hehe)0 -
2900m this morning. Feeling tired after a 5km charity run last night.
12x 100 with 20s rest between as
100 free
100 free kick
100 free pull
100 free
100 free
100 free kick
100 back
100 back kick
100 back pull
100 back
100 back
100 back kick
10x 150 free on 2.45 as
50 max 100 steady
100 max 50 steady
25 max 100 steady 25 max
75 max 75 steady
50 max 100 steady
100 max 50 steady
25 max 100 steady 25 max
75 max 75 steady
50 max 100 steady
100 max 50 steady
200 warmdown0 -
Another record setting day.
17.6km in 6:25:36.
Got nothing but time on the weekends in China.2 -
2200m tonight. First session back swimming with masters. I'd forgotten how much I've missed being told off from the side of the pool for having a bad technique lol.
200 kick
6x 125 pull as 50 finger drag 50 stroke count 25 build (20)
4x (4x50) free with 15s rest hold 38 and one minute rest after each set of four.
8x 50 on 1.10 as 2x each stroke
50 warmdown0 -
Today: 1.5 miles @ 75 minutes2
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Not done any swimming for a week. Been proper grumpy for some reason and lost my mojo for all things healthy. I here by promise that I'll go tomorrow!1
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skinnyrev2b wrote: »Not done any swimming for a week. Been proper grumpy for some reason and lost my mojo for all things healthy. I here by promise that I'll go tomorrow!
"It's just what I do" has gotten me to the pool more times than I care to remember. It's my little piece of self-talk that sits on my shoulder when the voice on the other shoulder is saying, "You don't have to go, you know..." Nope. It's just what I do. I start the day with the best of intentions. Making it part of my day/weekly routine helps me stick to those intentions.
Report back and tell us how your swim was. Even a lousy swim counts toward building the habit!!
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Rest day on Sunday. Pool was closed at the gym on the holiday yesterday.
Swimming tonight after work.
I really have to limit processed foods. Too much salt. Gained some water weight the last couple days.
Melt it off in the pool tonight. 0 -
skinnyrev2b wrote: »Not done any swimming for a week. Been proper grumpy for some reason and lost my mojo for all things healthy. I here by promise that I'll go tomorrow!
I know the feeling.
I had many month long Coma trips withno swimming at all until they finally found a pool for me. Sux bad.
Swimming is an essential part of my physical and mental health. I know many in here feel the same.1 -
I don't know which came first, the grumps or the lack of motivation. Either way, rearranged things to be able to go today. My first mile done. 😎2
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skinnyrev2b wrote: »I don't know which came first, the grumps or the lack of motivation. Either way, rearranged things to be able to go today. My first mile done. 😎
it gets to the point where it doesn't matter which came first doesn't it? I know that if I ever feel like not swimming, it can be a sign of the grumps, but sometimes I miss the sign if other factors like tiredness/scheduling issues creep in. nicely done on the mile! 2 -
skinnyrev2b wrote: »I don't know which came first, the grumps or the lack of motivation. Either way, rearranged things to be able to go today. My first mile done. 😎
Great job getting it done!!! I have seen a pattern of my own that usually start with no motivation, talking myself out of going (I'm a grown up. I don't have to if I don't want to.), talking myself back into it (Just drive there. Get out of the car. Just get 10 laps in. Then you can sit in the hot tub.), until finally just going, and then going, going, going, and having one of my best swims. Admittedly, it's probably due to my mental state and incredibly low expectations for the day
Remember what Dory said in "Finding Nemo," Just Keep Swimming!!1 -
6.6km last night. Flushed out the water weight gain from too much processed crap food over the weekend.
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