Did you swim today?
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Swam for an hour doing a little bit of everything.0
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Nice swim, Panhandle
Thanks, Rob, it's god to be back. I.M.'s ARE evil, but somewhat of a necessary evil - otherwise I'd have zero variety.....0 -
62 minutes ...1975m total, my 1 mile was at 50 minutes ...little bummed that my mile speed hasn't improved in the last 3 weeks. I thought reducing the breast stroke from 25% to 8% would give me some gain ...
Starting to give some thought to learning/incorporating flip turns ...won't help if I ever do a triathalon open water swim. But might improve aerobic effort as I tend to 'catch a breath' at the ends using an open turn.
Also finished Clash of Kings audiobook today ...on to Storm of Swords ...0 -
Stephen - I just learned how to flip turn last summer. I watched Go Swim's youtube video's. It's a series of 4 videos that starts with using a noodle. After several previous unsuccessful attempts, that's finally how I got it. Our morning lifeguard at the Y still sometimes refers to my "intensive noodle training". Funny guy! Flips definitely require more aerobic effort at least at first.
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After six weeks away from the pool. I finally went to squad. 4.7km in 90 minutes. Sad sore and stuffed0
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That's quite a work-out! That's about what I do swimming continuously. Doing it in drills and intervals, after 6 weeks away from the pool, is great work. Do you cross-train with other sports?SwimtotheEnd wrote: »After six weeks away from the pool. I finally went to squad. 4.7km in 90 minutes. Sad sore and stuffed
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SwimtotheEnd - that's a heck of workout for your 1st one in 6 weeks no reason at all to be sad......
No swim today, dragged my butt out of bed but the lifeguard apparently decided to not do the same. Not the first time with this one, I'll be calling the manager later as will the other swimmers who waited around to get in.....0 -
Swam two miles before work. Right elbow started hurting during my first 5-mile swim Monday and it was still hurting while swimming today. Lateral epicondylitis, I think. Can't see a sports medicine specialist till June 23rd, but I can see the nurse practitioner in a different orthopedic surgery/sports medicine office tomorrow. (The same NP that misdiagnosed my ankle injury that eventually ended my long-distance running carreer.) Hmmm.0
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Swam for an hour doing mostly sprint intervals. I mixed it up a bit and sprinted a few with fins. I am playing around with the whole food/no food befor a swim thing for me. I have reflux with certain things and today was a no eat. I am sure it affected my effort.0
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Got back in to pool yesterday for masters. Kept up fine, and I actually felt stronger for my two week break (guess that answers the question of whether I had overtrained or not...). Lots of IM stuff. Have some DOMS today, but not too bad. Will be doing fewer workouts for next two weeks or so until I get back in the groove.0
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Stayed in bed today. I set my alarm, but just couldn't drag myself out of bed. Pretty hard workout with the cardio class. I think my body needed it. I'll be back tomorrow morning.0
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Yep! You tend to be crazy like that!SwimtotheEnd wrote: »After six weeks away from the pool. I finally went to squad. 4.7km in 90 minutes. Sad sore and stuffed
The day Inwill swim 4.7km in 90 min there shall be much rejoicing and celebration!
LOL
That your lifeguard seems to be making a habit of keeping you early morning swimmers from swimming!SwimtotheEnd - that's a heck of workout for your 1st one in 6 weeks no reason at all to be sad......
No swim today, dragged my butt out of bed but the lifeguard apparently decided to not do the same. Not the first time with this one, I'll be calling the manager later as will the other swimmers who waited around to get in.....Swam two miles before work. Right elbow started hurting during my first 5-mile swim Monday and it was still hurting while swimming today. Lateral epicondylitis, I think. Can't see a sports medicine specialist till June 23rd, but I can see the nurse practitioner in a different orthopedic surgery/sports medicine office tomorrow. (The same NP that misdiagnosed my ankle injury that eventually ended my long-distance running carreer.) Hmmm.
Oh no! The elbows got you too? I get them on and off! Laying off the swimming helps ease the pain, then as I get back they can become an issue. You may need to look at your technique! Check out my post on it:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/AquaticQuests/view/swimmer-s-elbow-lateral-sculling-and-the-pinkie-739563
I used to have major reflux issues that would have me waking up in the middle of the night gasping for breath! Once I started calorie counting, the problem went away entirely!panhandle8 wrote: »Swam for an hour doing mostly sprint intervals. I mixed it up a bit and sprinted a few with fins. I am playing around with the whole food/no food befor a swim thing for me. I have reflux with certain things and today was a no eat. I am sure it affected my effort.
Welcome back!Kida_Adeylne wrote: »Got back in to pool yesterday for masters. Kept up fine, and I actually felt stronger for my two week break (guess that answers the question of whether I had overtrained or not...). Lots of IM stuff. Have some DOMS today, but not too bad. Will be doing fewer workouts for next two weeks or so until I get back in the groove.girlwithcurls2 wrote: »Stayed in bed today. I set my alarm, but just couldn't drag myself out of bed. Pretty hard workout with the cardio class. I think my body needed it. I'll be back tomorrow morning.
No swim for me either today! Work schedule wouldn't allow it!
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61 minutes, 52 minute mile, 1850m overall0
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Thanks, AQ. Earlier today I happened upon the same thread (that you reference in your post) at TI Swimming. I had initially planned on swimming again at lunch time and after work to do 10k today and I really wanted to go back at lunch time to see if I could experiment with different catch and pull techniques to reduce the pain, but I thought better of getting back into the pool until I was seen by the NP. It may well be technique related, but I fear it is just too many miles and he's going to tell me to take a month off and re-evaluate.AquaticQuests wrote: »Swam two miles before work. Right elbow started hurting during my first 5-mile swim Monday and it was still hurting while swimming today. Lateral epicondylitis, I think. Can't see a sports medicine specialist till June 23rd, but I can see the nurse practitioner in a different orthopedic surgery/sports medicine office tomorrow. (The same NP that misdiagnosed my ankle injury that eventually ended my long-distance running carreer.) Hmmm.
Oh no! The elbows got you too? I get them on and off! Laying off the swimming helps ease the pain, then as I get back they can become an issue. You may need to look at your technique! Check out my post on it:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/AquaticQuests/view/swimmer-s-elbow-lateral-sculling-and-the-pinkie-739563
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Decided at the last minute to go swimming- 1k of free, doing sets of 100s in 27 minutes. I don't know how I survived two weeks out of the pool. Forget physical health, my stress/anxiety requires that I get pool time.0
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Masters. One hour. About 1800 yds. I think I am going to quit that team and just swim on my own for a while. The coach is just too frustrating to work with. I like the other swimmers but she just gets on my last nerve.0
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Kida_Adeylne wrote: »Decided at the last minute to go swimming- 1k of free, doing sets of 100s in 27 minutes. I don't know how I survived two weeks out of the pool. Forget physical health, my stress/anxiety requires that I get pool time.
Agreed!
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Thanks, AQ. Earlier today I happened upon the same thread (that you reference in your post) at TI Swimming. I had initially planned on swimming again at lunch time and after work to do 10k today and I really wanted to go back at lunch time to see if I could experiment with different catch and pull techniques to reduce the pain, but I thought better of getting back into the pool until I was seen by the NP. It may well be technique related, but I fear it is just too many miles and he's going to tell me to take a month off and re-evaluate.AquaticQuests wrote: »Swam two miles before work. Right elbow started hurting during my first 5-mile swim Monday and it was still hurting while swimming today. Lateral epicondylitis, I think. Can't see a sports medicine specialist till June 23rd, but I can see the nurse practitioner in a different orthopedic surgery/sports medicine office tomorrow. (The same NP that misdiagnosed my ankle injury that eventually ended my long-distance running carreer.) Hmmm.
Oh no! The elbows got you too? I get them on and off! Laying off the swimming helps ease the pain, then as I get back they can become an issue. You may need to look at your technique! Check out my post on it:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/AquaticQuests/view/swimmer-s-elbow-lateral-sculling-and-the-pinkie-739563
The pain usually goes away within a week or 2!Kida_Adeylne wrote: »Decided at the last minute to go swimming- 1k of free, doing sets of 100s in 27 minutes. I don't know how I survived two weeks out of the pool. Forget physical health, my stress/anxiety requires that I get pool time.
That's me too! The swims are very helpful in helping me deal with the stress of my job!mpeters1965 wrote: »Masters. One hour. About 1800 yds. I think I am going to quit that team and just swim on my own for a while. The coach is just too frustrating to work with. I like the other swimmers but she just gets on my last nerve.
Aww. Sad to hear that!
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Thanks, AQ. Earlier today I happened upon the same thread (that you reference in your post) at TI Swimming. I had initially planned on swimming again at lunch time and after work to do 10k today and I really wanted to go back at lunch time to see if I could experiment with different catch and pull techniques to reduce the pain, but I thought better of getting back into the pool until I was seen by the NP. It may well be technique related, but I fear it is just too many miles and he's going to tell me to take a month off and re-evaluate.AquaticQuests wrote: »Swam two miles before work. Right elbow started hurting during my first 5-mile swim Monday and it was still hurting while swimming today. Lateral epicondylitis, I think. Can't see a sports medicine specialist till June 23rd, but I can see the nurse practitioner in a different orthopedic surgery/sports medicine office tomorrow. (The same NP that misdiagnosed my ankle injury that eventually ended my long-distance running carreer.) Hmmm.
Oh no! The elbows got you too? I get them on and off! Laying off the swimming helps ease the pain, then as I get back they can become an issue. You may need to look at your technique! Check out my post on it:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/AquaticQuests/view/swimmer-s-elbow-lateral-sculling-and-the-pinkie-739563
Rob, for what it's worth I think you're handling it the right way. Get it checked so that you're sure you're not going to cause or worsen anything. Hopefully, it'll just be a small tweak in technique & all will be well.....0 -
mpeters1965 wrote: »Masters. One hour. About 1800 yds. I think I am going to quit that team and just swim on my own for a while. The coach is just too frustrating to work with. I like the other swimmers but she just gets on my last nerve.
It's a shame that the coach is so frustrating. Is it a personality thing or their coaching method? If it's the method, you might be able to talk to him/her so that communication gets better. If it's personality related, there's not much you can do about that except maybe take it as a challenge to succeed in spite of the coach. If that's not possible I hope you look into other teams nearby, if there are any.....0 -
I.M. workout today: 250 free, 500 free, 1000 free, 7 x 200 I.M., 500 free, 3 x 200 I.M., 1000 free, 250 free in 98 minutes....
Went to the pool REALLY not feeling it today, to the point that I thought I was going to have to bail on the I.M.'s & just do a freestyle workout today - especially after the 1st I.M. As I went through, they started feeling better so I decided to push a bit. My long term plan has been to get to 10 x 200 I.M.'s with no freestyle break in between. I've been doing 5 x 200 I.M.'s, a 500 free & 5 more 200 I.M.'s with the ultimate goal of pushing that 500 back further & further in the set until I'm at the 10 straight I.M.'s. Today was the 1st day I pushed, & I was able to do 7 of the I.M.'s before I needed the 500 free as a rest. The moral of the story, boys & girls, is feeling crappy at the start doesn't mean you're necessarily going to have a bad workout, ironically I find the opposite to be true - I get some of my best workouts done on the days I feel the crappiest going in.....0 -
Way to stick with it Mac! I have also found that some of the best start off the worst.
I've been swimming with this coach for several years now and she is a talker, not a listener and gets very defensive so I am just not going down that avenue again. We have lost enough folks so that I know it isn't just me. For the most part, she has stopped coaching those of us who have been there for a while even though we still need to improve. She has never been a great coach and is just too disorganized for my tastes. I'll take a break for a few months and I bet something else will come up. I'm an optimist! I swam on my own for 8 years before the Masters group came along and with the great advice I get from you guys , I should be fine for a while. 0 -
You'll definitely be fine, you have plenty of knowledge & experience that you can put into designing your own workouts....0
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Just got back from the sports medicine guy. No swimming or weightlifting for at least 10 days, doing special wrist stretching exercises, and wearing an elbow strap. That 5-mile swim on Monday resulted in tennis & golfer's elbow (lateral and some medial epicondylitis). Biking OK. If pain gone after 10 days, I may have to abandon the faster freestyle stroke (bent elbow catch and pull, otherwise known as EVF: early vertical forearm). I'm sad, but don't want this to become a chronic injury.
Thanks, AQ. Earlier today I happened upon the same thread (that you reference in your post) at TI Swimming. I had initially planned on swimming again at lunch time and after work to do 10k today and I really wanted to go back at lunch time to see if I could experiment with different catch and pull techniques to reduce the pain, but I thought better of getting back into the pool until I was seen by the NP. It may well be technique related, but I fear it is just too many miles and he's going to tell me to take a month off and re-evaluate.AquaticQuests wrote: »Swam two miles before work. Right elbow started hurting during my first 5-mile swim Monday and it was still hurting while swimming today. Lateral epicondylitis, I think. Can't see a sports medicine specialist till June 23rd, but I can see the nurse practitioner in a different orthopedic surgery/sports medicine office tomorrow. (The same NP that misdiagnosed my ankle injury that eventually ended my long-distance running carreer.) Hmmm.
Oh no! The elbows got you too? I get them on and off! Laying off the swimming helps ease the pain, then as I get back they can become an issue. You may need to look at your technique! Check out my post on it:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/AquaticQuests/view/swimmer-s-elbow-lateral-sculling-and-the-pinkie-739563
Rob, for what it's worth I think you're handling it the right way. Get it checked so that you're sure you're not going to cause or worsen anything. Hopefully, it'll just be a small tweak in technique & all will be well.....0 -
30 minute swim, then 60 minute water aerobics ...my swim got interrupted.0
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45 min doing MsJ's workout. I dragged myself out of bed because I knew I'd miss tonight. It felt great. Just the right challenge. I was definitely working, but not so hard that it was discouraging. Thanks, MsJ! 0
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Rob, I saw this on your feed & responded there. You'll figure ways to adapt your stroke & you'll stay well aware of any sign of it acting up. Not only are you doing the right thing by yourself, you're setting a good example to other people here about how to get on top of these things - thanks for that......0
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A quick 40ish minute swim tonight. I need to revamp my time of day swims. The kids are out of school for the summer but I dislike evening swims.... I need to figure this out asap.0
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Nice swim tonight - No one at the pool due to the "nice weather" so only 2 per lane. My lane mate was a serious triathlete. Nothing push's your pace like trying to keep on pace with someone who is faster.
750 meters free in 18 minutes. Then another 750 meters of various strokes as a general workout.
It's now the third time I have made it under 18 minutes for 750 meters.0 -
Thanks, Mac.Rob, I saw this on your feed & responded there. You'll figure ways to adapt your stroke & you'll stay well aware of any sign of it acting up. Not only are you doing the right thing by yourself, you're setting a good example to other people here about how to get on top of these things - thanks for that......
No swimming today. Doing stretching exercises now. Helping my elbow heal. Yay!
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