Good morning. Rest day yesterday after the masters squad trial. This morning I decided to focus on drills, as I realised at the trial that my drill work is not good and my legs do nothing when I swim. So, just did 1km in very slow drills over 30 mins. Will need to do the same a couple of times a week to get my legs swimming properly.

stephenrhinton wrote: »

61 minutes, 1925m, 50 minute mile, Personal Best
(unexpectedly reached the end of part of my audiobook, had to count laps)

Congratulations. That's good!

61 minutes ....and that concludes the initial proscribed exercise by my diabetes doc ..started at 30 mins/day ...add 5 mins every two weeks until you get to an hour. I've been swimming an hour a day for two weeks.

I did. Masters. An hour of mixed sets and mixed strokes so probably only 1700-1800 yards. Plus I was feeling chatty so that cut into my swimming time. My lane mate was similarly unmotivated for swimming but totally up for chatting so it all worked out.

So a week or so away from Mfp and a whole load of dedicated swimming going on - very inspiring.

I had a fun 1k swim today -mainly dodgems with a really nice family having fun with the kids whilst my daughter was in her swim class - so although I hardly set a PB I did enjoy their pleasure, and I concentrated on form when I wasn't concentrating on avoiding the kids.

Much better than yesterday's 'am I made of lead?' Swim.

And much much longer than my weekend swim in the pool on roof of my Barcelona hotel. I think I maxed out at 10 laps. Maybe 4 m a length . ... But a) 2 lengths were full on sprints against the hubby ... I won the sprints. C) the view was lovely.

Still the best thing about today's swim was probably that some nice person handed in my bag with my I-pad in it to the reception desk...after my daughter and I got too distracted chatting to the fellow swimmers in the changing room.

2000 yds 57:39

As always, there's some great swimming going on here. Didn't swim yesterday (played golf, walked the course ). It was a pleasant surprise to be able to go today, it's a work day but we left later than I thought we were going to although I had to cut it short to get back from the gym in time. All freestyle : 250, 500, 1000, 1500, 1000, 500, 250

I swam for ~55 minutes. I mixed it up with an easy warm up, kick with fins, some high intensity stuff, more fins and a cool down. When I was warming up my arms were begging me to get out of the water, but they loosened up nicely. Now, if I could only figure out how to sprint faster...

2500m today! 300 warm up, then 2200 without stopping in ~47minutes.

Once I get up to 3k without stopping, I'm going to focus on keeping my pace more consistent so I make 3k/1h. Which will require lots of painful timed sets... *sigh* (I much prefer technique or endurance work, but I know the speed work is really important).

2.5 km 55 min
Was pumped up before the swim and hoping to go for a PB but there were kids in the pool doing all sorts, my player switched off and I had to do some fiddling with it, and eventually postponed my quest for a PB for another day!

Newbie here. Did my first swim today and wow! Haven't swum in over 6 years and boy this was a big workout out. Swam for about 20-30 minutes and I'm wiped out. Next swim will be Tues.

Welcome back to the pool, Alicia!!!

Great workout today. I was the only one in the pool too! I did some sprint intervals, fin work, and easy 100's between intervals. I was breathing hard but my recovery between sprints kind of impressed me. Meaning, I was able to recover pretty decently in 5 sec. Swam 60 min or a bit more.

aliciab307 wrote: »

Newbie here. Did my first swim today and wow! Haven't swum in over 6 years and boy this was a big workout out. Swam for about 20-30 minutes and I'm wiped out. Next swim will be Tues.

Great start, repeat that swimming time on your next swim on Tuesday. After seeing @mpeters suggestion to @beneita about the great success that @stephenrhinton has had by adding 5 minutes to his swim time every two weeks that's what I would suggest as a starting point/plan. This idea duplicates the general concepts in the C25K Running Plan where they add small increments of time/distance that allows your body to slowly adjust to the new routine.

panhandle8 wrote: »

Great workout today. I was the only one in the pool too! I did some sprint intervals, fin work, and easy 100's between intervals. I was breathing hard but my recovery between sprints kind of impressed me. Meaning, I was able to recover pretty decently in 5 sec. Swam 60 min or a bit more.

It's always a great feeling to have a fast Sprint Recovery, shows that your work is paying off. The only thing better than an empty pool is where the co-swimmer that is splitting the lane with you is just marginally faster which then causes us to push the pace a little bit so that we aren't lane blocking.

No swimming today. Work got in the way as I was called out yesterday at 1:30 pm and it stretched out until 4:00 pm today.

2000 metres over 50 minutes. I thought about people driving to the gym to ride stationary cycles, as I cycled to the pool in the rain.