Did you swim today?
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Morning swim. 54 laps in 70 minutes. Ugh! Definitely not my favorite time to work out, but it makes me feel so damned smug and virtuous the rest of the day.
The faculty meeting be like "blah blah blah students blah blah the dean blah blah blah underappreciated for what I bring to the university blah blah blah" and rosebarnalice be thinkin' to herself "you pompous windbags--I swam a mile and a half before you even made your coffee. Hells to the yeah!"0 -
Yeah Rose is right!! I love the early morning swim and the virtous feeling I get too
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Back home from the meet. Five races. Five wins. Three personal bests. One sore shoulder.
Not sure if anyone wants times but they were:
50m backstroke 38.1
100m backstroke 1.21.7
200m backstroke 2.57.7
100 IM 1.25.4
100 free 1.12.6
Now for Chinese takeaways and a glass of wine. Back into it tomorrow. Lots of areas for improvement and lots of work to be done!1 -
Five races. Five wins. Three personal bests. One sore shoulder.
50m backstroke 38.1
100m backstroke 1.21.7
200m backstroke 2.57.7
100 IM 1.25.4
100 free 1.12.6
Now for Chinese takeaways and a glass of wine. Back into it tomorrow. Lots of areas for improvement and lots of work to be done!
Way to go EmmaB. Amazing Times. Definitely deserve the Wine and takeaway.
Your 100 free time = my 50 free time. So I have lots of work to do.
But then I only really learned proper form/technique 2 years ago so still a lot to learn and improve on.0 -
1500 meters. Boston Sharkfest across the mouth of Boston Harbor. Perfect day, perfect weather.0
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Back home from the meet. Five races. Five wins. Three personal bests. One sore shoulder.
Not sure if anyone wants times but they were:
50m backstroke 38.1
100m backstroke 1.21.7
200m backstroke 2.57.7
100 IM 1.25.4
100 free 1.12.6
Now for Chinese takeaways and a glass of wine. Back into it tomorrow. Lots of areas for improvement and lots of work to be done!
Well done, Emma!! Your times are so fast. I blame my slow speed on learning later in life, but your training regimen compared to mine is... well... much more structured, lol. (to say the least!) Awesome work! Hope you enjoyed your wine and takeaway. You earned it!0 -
NoelFigart1 wrote: »1500 meters. Boston Sharkfest across the mouth of Boston Harbor. Perfect day, perfect weather.
Another open water event! Gonna hop over to your blog and see how it went Someone's getting hooked! (not literally!) 0 -
2150m, 61 minutes, mixed strokes, 16 sprint lengths0
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girlwithcurls2 wrote: »NoelFigart1 wrote: »1500 meters. Boston Sharkfest across the mouth of Boston Harbor. Perfect day, perfect weather.
Another open water event! Gonna hop over to your blog and see how it went Someone's getting hooked! (not literally!)
http://swimasslowaschristmas.blogspot.com/2015/09/turtle-in-boston-harbor.html0 -
lazy sunday, i wasn't feelin the workout ...so I just put my time in, no sprint laps, I think I got in around 1800-1900m0
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Emma - those times are great. Well done.
I thought I would try to see if my sternum could bear any swimming today so off I went. One length slow breaststroke = pain. One length slow crawl = pain. One length slow back = more pain. So that was almost that. Instead I water jogged for 10 lengths then did 10 more legs only (back and front) & that was fine. Will have a rest tomorrow then will take my fins and kickboard to the pool later this week for a legs only session. Who knows, this could turn out to be a blessing and I could end up with a much stronger kick!0 -
Wow, @60sPanda I hope you're feeling better soon.
Back in the groove. I'm training for a four mile swim and Alcatraz next summer. No more screwing around and *shudder* more dryland work.
1200 yards, 34:00 minutes. I was lazy today and enjoying swimming just for itself before getting serious about training for next summer's swims.0 -
Like everyone said, Emma, those times are smoking! What did you think of the meet? Hadn't it been a while?
Way to go, Noel! I read your blog post. The way you just go for it inspires me.
Some days are like that, Stephen. We put in our time and go home.
Panda, good look with the kick sets. Sometimes it takes an injury to shake us up and do something different.
As for me, 1,700 yards mixed sets. About 45 minutes. I got to the pool late, the regular adult locker room was flooded so we had to use the one for the kids and no outlet would run my hair dryer. I dried it when I got to the office. It's funny how something like that throws me off. It's taking me a while to settle in.0 -
I thought I would try to see if my sternum could bear any swimming today so off I went. One length slow breaststroke = pain. One length slow crawl = pain. One length slow back = more pain. So that was almost that. Instead I water jogged for 10 lengths then did 10 more legs only (back and front) & that was fine. Will have a rest tomorrow then will take my fins and kickboard to the pool later this week for a legs only session. Who knows, this could turn out to be a blessing and I could end up with a much stronger kick!
Ooooh, I'm so sorry that you're still suffering. But good for you for giving it a go and water jogging and kicking!
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51 of my regular 54 laps because I got to the pool about 5 minutes late for a.m. session. I'll make up the three missing laps later in the week0
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1200m or so, 40 mins. Not a great feeling swim but at least I made myself go. I made myself do the first 1000 and then made myself take it to 40 mins. As Stephen says 'I wasn't feeling the workout' ... Still I cycled home up the hill, and that certainly added to the cardio benefit.
I am bored of the usual swimming stuff I am doing at the mo. Just doing it cos it's good for me. Not cos I am enjoying the swimming itself that much. I hope I get some mojo back soon.
Emma - thought of you today as I was doing my backstroke. Your favourite I think? How do you manage not to feel lots of neck tension? I can't do many lengths before my neck is really tight...0 -
FWIW, when you do backstroke, if your neck hurts, you're probably tilting your head to your chest a lot. It might be a little vulnerable-feeling, but if you tilt your head back a back (the "chin up" position when you're standing), the water is supporting your melon instead of your muscles.0
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Fantastic work, everyone. Congrats Emma on your wins, those are great times.
I just did quick (for me) mile swims over the weekend. A momentary breakthrough yesterday where I was faster with fewer strokes then it went back to my usual wriggle technique. I could use some coaching but don't want to use any of the ones that hang out at the pool teaching the kids.
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2650 yards in 50 min. Mixed it up with some sprints, some 100 IMs, and some distance free. I need to invest in new earplugs, the cheap ones I've been using fall apart and I'm worried they'll get stuck in my ear!0
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conniekat8 wrote: »well, so? Did you swim today?
Check in below... I'm watching youuuu ;P
I need few more days for my neck muscles to heal up from locking up to get back in the pool, and I'm antsy.
Anyhow, I thought maybe we could use a check-in thread. Tell me about if you swam, where, how, share your workout or whatever keeps you motivated
Tomorrow starts my 1st routine of h20 aqua class for 1 hr. It's been a while but after this next week I'm looking for a full 3x as week of exercise.this is prep week and slowdown on food intake. Be back in full force real soon. ☺Beautifulbridgittlee7 wrote: »yes 50 minutes of breaststroke, freestyle, backstroke, kickboard, 20 minutes of water running, and then some weight training and elliptical, love it
Same here with style routine Beautiful. Trying to increase my stamina and get breathing back to par. Each week that's the amount of laps I do. SLOW AND STEADY WINS MY RACE
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Thx Connie for check in thread. ..wishing you healing with your neck. DO TELL Me WHAT'S YOUR Routine Upon YOUR Return?0
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Welcome to our group.0
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I FINALLY GOT TO SWIM!!!
Pool closed on Aug 31 for maintenance and reopened on Sept 19, but I couldn't get in until today because of my schedule. Turns out they changed the evening lap swim times too, which actually makes it better for me.
1 mile, all freestyle, 42 minutes 50 seconds. Slower than I was, but I've been off for 3+ weeks so it's to be expected. My swims will be a bit sporadic for a while, but I should be able to get 1 or 2 in a week at least.
Oh! And something really cool happened. There were 3 of us in the locker room afterward showering. I made a comment about how sore I'll be tomorrow after my first swim in 3 weeks. One of the ladies said, "you were doing lap swim right? My husband was so impressed by you. He couldn't believe you didn't stop that whole time."0 -
Awesome Laura! That is impressive!
1000 30:33. Glacially slow for me, but I'm okay with that, as I'm quite stiff and sore from hitting the free weights for the first time in an embarassingly long time.0 -
Back after about 2 - 3 weeks.
Was abit unwell one week followed immediately by something like a back/ neck injury.
Then swam intermittently the next week though not been logging.
This week swam Monday and Tuesday!
Trying to get into some structured training with a coach on top of my long swims and sprints.
Weird distances are because it was in a 33m long pool!
Warm up: 1 x 528m
Main Set: 2 x 528m free, 2 x 396m breaststroke
2 x 132m freestyle kick, 2 x 132 breastroke kick
132 - freestyle warmdown
Total 3,036 m in 1:23 min
First time to do kick sets since maybe high school. They were hard, especially the freestyle kick sets. Goes to show they are doing something!!!
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Glad you're back AQ! We were worried about you.
I woke up late and didn't want to swim but went anyway. Swam 1,000 yds. Got out, showered, headed for work and somebody pulled out in front of me. Wrecked my car. I'm a bit banged up but thank goodness for seat belts and airbags. Poor little car is wasted.
This is the first time I can say that I regret making myself get up and go swim.
I'm headed out of town for a week. No swimming. No driving. No worries.0 -
AQ!!! Welcome back!! So good to hear from you. We were getting worried!
mpeters, thank goodness you're OK! But what an awful way to start your day
I'm so sorry to hear that. I hope that your strong swimming body helps you recover more quickly 
I swam yesterday. Still pretty discombobulated. You life-long swimmers are quite fortunate for muscle memory. I feel like I am putting it all together for the first time again. It was a tough go, but I'll keep at it. I did my water fitness class though, and kicked butt 0 -
57 laps (my regular 54 + the 3 I missed on Monda. . .) -- including 3 X 25 butterfly, and 5 "wall sprint" lengths (where I sprint the last half length to the wall.)0
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2500m
First swim in five days so felt HORRIBLE!!
8 x 50 2 each of fr br bk fly on 1.10
6 x 200 alt fr/IM/back (20)
10 x 50 kick alt fr/bk fins (20)
8 × 25 fr sprints on 40 (held 16s)
200 w/d
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