Did you swim today?
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2700 in 72 min.0
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2600m
200 mixed strokes
6X50 high elbow drill
6X100 as 50 br/50 back
4X150 free high shoulder
6X100 as 25 fly/50 free/25 fly (YUCK!)
8X25 as 12.5 underwater fly on back/12.5 swim
100 easy
The high shoulder/rotation drills made me feel like an intoxicated centipede with an enormous backside, as I felt like I was snaking all over the place. My coach said I didn't look like one. I think he's lying.0 -
I haven't been in the water for a week now. My pool IS closed for maintenance, but that really is just an excuse. I could go to the other pool closer to my work instead. I've been having motivational issues, so I'm giving myself permission to take a break from swimming. I barely exercised this last week at all. So I'm going to try to be better this week by doing other stuff, and see how that works. Did some body weight strength stuff last night (very intro level) and a 'Pound' class at the gym today. Given the doldrums I vacillate between 'I need something quick and easy I can do at home' and 'I need to be with other people to hold me accountable' ...
@emmab 'underwater fly on back' ?!?!?! really? what does that look like? Can you actually do that in 3 dimensional space-time or does it require some sort of quantum mechanical effect? And this is apparently not the drill of the set that made you feel insectoid ...0 -
2500 yards in just under an hour. Took a few laps to get warmed up after someone wanted to chat on the pool deck before I got started. Standing around on wet concrete in only swim trunks when it's just over 40 degrees (F) had my teeth chattering. Only two others in the pool for evening swim with a clear night sky.
@stephenrhinton - I hear you about motivation. I think the only thing keeping me going right now is the fact that I have a friend that will be joining me soon for evening laps and I have a lot of work to do to keep up with him.0 -
2700 yards in 72 minutes, followed by a VERY cold shower. The pool water was fine, but the boilers must be out on the shower heaters because there was a big fat goose-egg of hot water in the shower. zero. zip. nada. Thankfully, after shivering through my post-swim ablutions, I stepped out into a beautiful, sunny unseasonably warm 76-degree November day. Thank goodness for global warming??0
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Mmmm a fairly rubbish swim - slow, and lost count, and not sure what time I got in and my shoulder hurting a bit and....
But I went. And I did not succumb to my desire to get out early.
It is not always easy to keep going, is it? But when I remember the really important goals (healthy heart etc) rather than the smaller goals (faster or better or thinner or whatever) then the discipline to just go is easier I find.
I have decided to put a waterproof iPod on the Santa list... I want to try the story book/ podcast approach to seeing if I can make the swim itself more enjoyable. Mind you I asked last year and did not get...clealry have not been good enough!
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@stephenrhinton it was fly kick on back not full stroke lol0
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750m crawl - 20min
750m breast - 30min
Unlike @rosebarnalice The pool was the temp of a Hot Tub and the showers were even warmer. The Joys of Pool Mtc upgrades that take longer than expected.
@stephenrhinton I know how you feel with the pool closed for Mtc.
And I agree with you @emmab0902's swim workouts are monsters.0 -
Swam 4km today!! Feeling great about it. I made my way back into the pool after more than a decade out. I started with 1,500m four weeks ago and been going three days a week. I really never ever thought I'd be able to swim like this again. It's like being re-united with an old love. I certainly don't have the speed that I used to have, but at this point all I care about is just feeling good about my swimming again!!1
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@stephenrhinton it was fly kick on back not full stroke lol
That's actually pretty fun! I love coming out of a backstroke turn and doing half the pool underwater!1 -
Not in a week... first I was on a trip to see my son in college, and now I'm feeling a lot of pain every time I eat. (I suspect GERD or an ulcer) I can keep it together to go to work and put on a nice face when I teach OR swim, but not really both. Stupid having to earn a living...0
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Got in an extra 450 today for 3,200 yards in about 84 minutes. Still no hot water in the showers (BRRR!!! FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS!!) but the boiler is supposed to be back on line tomorrow0
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Fun swim this morning. 400 yd warm up. Then alternated 100 pull/100 kick for a total of 800. Then swam 8 - 50 yd sprints with a friend (she leaves me eating her wake but that's ok) and then 100 breast stroke to cool down. I haven't done real sprints in many months and while I'll always be kind of slow (My best was :55), I have cut a second or two off my average sprint time over the last year. I think I'm better at not losing form once I speed up now.
Keeping going is something we all struggle with at times, whether it is illness (feel better, Noel) or motivation (mix it up Stephen and you'll be fine.) or injuries (well it looks like Emma just keeps on going and going anyway
). Gently has it right that you just look at the longer term goals.
Welcome SwimmyD, this is a good group to be part of!0 -
aliciamariaq wrote: »@stephenrhinton it was fly kick on back not full stroke lol
That's actually pretty fun! I love coming out of a backstroke turn and doing half the pool underwater!
I totally salute you then. I struggle to do 10m underwater without dying! Apparently the heart medication I am on reduces oxygen uptake by about 15% and I'll take that excuse lol. My coach says it'll benefit my backstroke races, but I said not if I do 12.5m then have to hop out and have a lie down on the side lol.
Awesome swimming everyone I love reading everyone's posts and the dedication and love of the best sport ever!!1 -
Just finished one of those sessions that look ok on the board but are pure evil!
2100m
200 RIM
8X50 kick on 1.10
3X100 free max effort on 3.15
200 easy
3X100 free max effort on 3.15
200 easy
6X75 IM (no fly) on 1.45
50 easy
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And a funny story.....
I was showing my 11yo son pictures of some of the pools I'll be swimming at in 2016. Initially he was jealous but then said "you deserve it for being a great mum." He then added "I never thought that your swimming would take you all over New Zealand and overseas." Reminded him that neither did I; and that I only got back into it to help me cope with being cheated on and lied to last year. His response - "well swimming is better than some dumb man anyway." LOL!
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aliciamariaq wrote: »@stephenrhinton it was fly kick on back not full stroke lol
That's actually pretty fun! I love coming out of a backstroke turn and doing half the pool underwater!
I totally salute you then. I struggle to do 10m underwater without dying! Apparently the heart medication I am on reduces oxygen uptake by about 15% and I'll take that excuse lol. My coach says it'll benefit my backstroke races, but I said not if I do 12.5m then have to hop out and have a lie down on the side lol.
Awesome swimming everyone I love reading everyone's posts and the dedication and love of the best sport ever!!
It will definitely benefit your races, turns and starts can definitely help determine a race and improve your times. Especially backstroke0 -
So today I officially joined a masters swim team! So psyched! Also excited to post workouts here! I have actually been working out with them for the past month or so. It was hard to get back in the pool with a swim team after a 4 year absence, especially a team doimnated by 25 to 35 year old males and the youngest female is 10 years younger than me! Ratio of males to females is 6 to 1! Which will keep me on my toes!
So today's workout:
75 minutes
3500m total
400m warm up
4x100 (100 slow, 100 medium, 100 medium fast, 100 FAST)
4x200 (200 slow, 200 medium etc)
4x400 ( same as above)
all based on 2min per 100
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Tuesday 2.5 km 56 min
Wednesday 2.5 km 54 min
Thursday went for a long walk with a friend - I think 11 km in between 2 and 2.5 hours.
It was another reminder how much my swimming (without drills) doesn't translate to leg fitness. My feet were sore and I was tired after that walk.
I'm thinking of running 10km or 21km November 30!
I'm going to be trying to mix running and swimming over the next 3 weeks.
The problem is that I then hoped to participate in a 5 km swimathon on December 5th (five days after the long run) and hopefully make an attempt at a 15km swim by end year.
The running/ walking definitely interferes with my comfort in the pool - and for 5 or 15km swims would have preferred to be fully comfortable and not having sore feet from running!
Also to prepare for a 15km swim, I should ideally be swimming at least a total of 15km per week. It'll be hard enough to find the time to do that sort of distance per week even without preparation for the run.
Anyway, will take it day by day and see how it goes!1 -
Great to see all the swims people.
For those struggling with motivation but still not losing touch with the pool altogether, hang in there.
I see quite a few of us are also piling on the yardage with up to 4 km swims. Good stuff!
Emma glad to hear that it helped as a coping mechanism but has transformed into so much more. Whenever I think of New Zealand what comes to mind is rugby and the All Blacks, so now I'll be thinking of blisteringly fast swimmers too (and as for the swimmer aging into your age group, just make sure you're faster than her by the time she arrives LOL)! 1 -
I did... along with everybody else in the greater SW area, lol. Holy smokes was the pool crowded! minimum of 4 to a lane, 5 in the fast lanes. It was really fun though. I took my daughter because she missed swim team yesterday. She was not up for it, but I figured that before the end, she'd feel really good. True enough. I didn't have a great swim, but about 2/3 in, it got better and better. By the end, I was wishing we could stay. I just had too dang much to do today. Hooray for us for going though. It would have been sooo easy to stay indoors on this windy, rainy November day.0
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Not happy!!!
Our government accident compensation department have decided in their infinite wisdom that my shoulder injury, latterly diagnosed as a full thickness rotator cuff tear and subluxated bicep tendon, should have resolved itself by now, and will not cover any further treatment. I guess that solves the dilemma of whether or not to go ahead with the surgery. But it also means no more physio which was actually helping.
As an aside, having read the report, I've discovered there's a lot more wrong with my shoulder than the specialist told me. Which makes me nervous about swimming once again. Ignorance was bliss.0 -
My first race of the season yesterday. 1km ocean swim and I did it in 26 minutes which is less than I did last year! Hoping to move up to 2 km by the end of the season1
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@emmab0902 Mis-diagnosed by the "experts" - and you lose Physio-benefits because of that. Time for a fight.
If you have the surgery are you then eligible for a whole new round of Physio during recovery ?0 -
@juliet3455 I can't have surgery now because it won't be funded and so my only options are swimming with pain and hoping it doesn't get worse, or giving up swimming.0
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@juliet3455 I can't have surgery now because it won't be funded and so my only options are swimming with pain and hoping it doesn't get worse, or giving up swimming.
That just sucks!
Thought of throwing in some cycling and/or running into the mix?
Transforming yourself into a triathlete?
Have a feeling you'd probably be quite good at it too!
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I've just started running but thankfully don't own a bike. My ex who cheated and was the catalyst for getting back into swimming did Ironman events which puts me off lol.
In the meantime....
Tonight
2400m
4X 50 free on 60
4X 50 br on 1.15
4X 100 fly with fins on 2.15
8X75 free on 1.15 hold same pace (all 59-60s)
2X 300 free as 100 fast 200 steady
4X 100 pull
Hurt a lot!
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I'm so sorry Emma - that is tough.....
My only thought is you might want to consider swim training/practise that is based on Alexander Technique principles ...ie not putting your body under strain, injury avoidance, through 'holding' and moving your body in a more 'natural' way. It is good for back issues, rsi type stuff and also shoulder pain. Some pro swimmers swear by it too... Google steve Shaw as an example.
Well done Captain and Alicia... That's good to read.
I did 1200 in c40 mins - it felt a lot better today. A good swim.
Blowy and blustery here in London too Curly. Nearly lost my hat in the park in the way back - lovely autumn leaves etc., I love autumn.
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1500y 43:41
I was thinking of the swimming to walking conversion ratio at a 1:4 recently. I wasn't feeling the swimming love, so I took a walk for an hour yesterday. I wasn't especially pushing, but I did get red in the face and was sweating. So exertion was moderately okay.
I walked 2.84 miles (roughly 5000 yards) in an hour. So, I did the conversion to see what that would be like swimming.
It would be like swimming 1250 yards in an hour. Now, I'm *ahem* slow as Christmas and all, but I do swim about 80% faster than that even when I'm not pushing hard.
So either that conversion is way off, or I push myself a lot harder in the pool, or swimming is just easy.0 -
I had a weird, stressful weekend without enough sleep. This morning I arrived at the pool late and left early and didn't count a thing. I'm glad I went though. I have to get on a plane today and then turn around and come back tomorrow so some exercise was the right thing. Sorry to hear about your shoulder, Emma.0
