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Went camping for a few days and the grounds had a pool with a lap lane, so I swam twice while on vacation. Have no idea how much.
Swam today-2000 yards about 48 min. Alternated 100 breast and 200 free.
A friend is loaning me her Garmin swim this weekend so I will be able to track everything better. While on vacation I had a friend clock my 50 free-was 40 sec. It's a decent starting point I guess-after 18 yrs out of water and only getting back into swimming this past week.

2600SCM
Masters

400 as 100 free 100 back 100 br 100 IM

2X400 IM as 50 drill 50 swim each stroke

8X75 pull

8X25 fly kick hands behind back

6X25 kick max effort

16X25 as alt max/steady (alt free/back by 50) on 35

50 easy

Loved this session!!!!
:-)

I swam 750 m last night. Had to get home and do some batch cooking for the week so I didn't have much time. I did it almost all freestyle. I am training myself to look down when swimming and this is helping my breathing. I use less energy to keep my hips parallel and afloat this way, so I am less panicky and find it easier to keep the breathing in the right flow.

Thanks for you concern AQ. I am pacing myself per doctors orders.

AquaticQuests wrote: »

Sprints: 33m x 20 then 66m x 10, then a few IM sets.

The IM sets were difficult, as I need to regain my comfort in butterfly, back and breast, and all in the next 2 - 3 days as I prepare myself for an unexpected swim meet!
Lots of choking and gulping on pool water during those IM laps.

With my concentration on freestyle, I've grown so much more in the zone with my freestyle, and so outside my comfort zone with the other strokes!

Well Tuesday evening turned out to be pretty dramatic - after doing butterfly for the first time this year.
Went home and at about 10:30 pm started to have quite an intense ache in my back/chest/shoulder/bicep area.
I thought I was having a heart attack and asked my wife to drive me to the ER.
My heart rate was elevated, as was my pressure (142/90) but nothing too extreme and heart seemed fine.
I explained to doc that heart rate was probably still elevated from my sprints earlier that evening, and he then said it was probably muscular, which I agreed with.

Prescribed pain killers and rest rest next day, and asked me to monitor my blood pressure over the next few days.

Wednesday morning I stayed in resting, and my resting heart rate Wednesday morning was 58 which was great (and 57 this morning)!
My pressure today was 125/70 which is great too.
Haven't swum since the 'attack' but given that the issue was probably muscular, and all my vitals are now normal, may give the swim meet a go tomorrow, despite now not having had the opportunity to reacquaint myself with the strokes which Aj may be expected to swim in!

Will jump into the pool today and see if everything is still working!

Well done Marissa. Take it gently AQ, and know how that one feels BruceA. I am jealous of your 'starting point' HTimp (way faster than me) and also of your mid swim break MP!

Kid back at school today so at last back (I hope) to usual swim routine after patchy swimming over the summer.

Gentle intro - 750m untimed as feeling pretty rubbish on too many levels. Hey ho. Tomorrow is another day... and it will include booking more swim lessons.

Getting into the lake today. It was soooooo cold. 2km done though.

I'm sorry for all of you guys whose pools have closed. What a bummer! And Little White Flakes in the rain? We are still in the death grip of summer here. One of the things I love about this group is our geographical diversity.

I decided on a whim last night to go try out the evening Masters Swim group, from 7:15 to 8:15 pm. I've been considering joining them during the upcoming winter once the outdoor pool closes. It had all the things I love about masters, a great group and a tough workout. But swimming at that time of day was much harder in than in the morning! It's like I had already used up most of my energy and didn't have as much to give. I thought I would sleep well but actually slept terribly (which might or might not have to do with swimming that late). I'm going to have to try a few more times before I make a decision.

girlwithcurls2 wrote: »

Yikes, AQ!! Be gentle to yourself. Good that you had it checked though. Marissa, wow!! Congratulations! I LOVE the feeling of meeting a goal and making a new one! htimpaired, a pool at a campground?? How awesome! Never seen it in these parts... emma, your enthusiasm is contagious. I LOVE it when a session goes that well. Feels sooo good! mpeters, I'm not sure which I'm more envious of: the swim or the Cape launch aledba, I know the feeling. I added a pull bouy into my workout a while back. It helped keep myself more level when I didn't have to work arms AND legs. Might be worth a try? And Bruce, glad you are under a doc's watch. It's hard not to get back as quickly as we want, but patience pays off in the end.

No swims until the 12th I'm going a little bonkers without my pool, but I have taken some short runs and my foot seems to be holding up well. I have a 10K coming up in a couple of weeks, and another possibly a month after that. I would LOVE to be able to run AND swim.

I do the head up front crawl with arms only using the buoy, do you mean add it in for normal freestyle to help float my hips more? I feel like I might get a little sloppy

aledba wrote: »

I do the head up front crawl with arms only using the buoy, do you mean add it in for normal freestyle to help float my hips more? I feel like I might get a little sloppy

Many people do recommend this as a drill to help 'train' you to a more flat body position in freestyle. However, like you mentioned the first several times I tried it I felt really really sloppy. I found that the kicking motion of my legs was doing a lot to 'stabilize' my line in the lane an prevent me from angling from side to side as I rolled for my stroke and/or breathing. Eventually it got easier. But I'm not sure how much it improved my body position. I don't really have a coach or team or anyone to look at my technique and tell me how/if it is changing.

1850m, 61 minutes, mixed strokes, 15 sprints ...

Oh and yesterday was a drylander day ...i made it through a Les Mills 'BodyJam' class ...i looked redonkulous ...but I managed to keep pace (if not the beat)

1850m in 61 minutes, mixed strokes, 15 sprint lengths

Lost count of my distance today, but I swam for 45 minutes. Approx half of my swim was front crawl, and I am feeling a lot more comfortable with it now! I am able to control my breathing a lot better. When I started a month ago I would be gasping for air after one or two lengths of front crawl and mostly stuck to breast stroke.

mpeters1965 wrote: »

No future career as a Body Jam instructor, Stephen?

Instructor? No ...maybe the equivalent of a Body Jam 'Crash Test Dummy'

2050m, 62 minutes, mixed strokes, 16 sprint lengths

So mixed performance notes today.

I THINK this may be a personal best for me ...i got at least 2k one other time, but I think this is my first 2050 ...so yay!

On the other hand at the end of my swim a lady started in the lane next to me. Now she was doing breast-stroke kickboard drills (frog kick). And she was lapping me doing all three of my full-on strokes! ...with just her kick! ...and she didn't look like she was working especially hard! yowsa i felt slooooow!

Tomorrow is a rest day ...which is nice since it is labor day ... in fact unless things change I have no obligations at all tomorrow and I can hide in my house all day an ignore the world.

2300SCM
45 minutes
Masters

150 free
150 kick
100 back
100 IM

12X25 fly kick hands behind back (am noticing benefits from this in my fly)

6X100 free on 1.40 hold 1.24 or below

16X50 IMO first 25 steady second sprint on 60

100 easy

Good session. First meet in 12 days. Coach says tonight he's off to Thailand on Friday for two weeks holiday!!!

How rude!!