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1 km of sprints!
33 x 30m on 0:45 deteriorating to "on 0:50"!
Break after each 10 lengths!0 -
Half the lights were out in the pool last night, making my difficult to read watch pretty much invisible. It was one of those sessions that I thought was going really well, but ended really being a slower pace. 2550 y in 58 minutes.0
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Pool temp problems all last week, but a good 54 laps today!0
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pool Temp problemsrosebarnalice wrote: »Pool temp problems all last week, but a good 54 laps today!
It was Nice and cold so I could put my head down and paddle long and hard. Lessons so mixed drills. Breast, Front and Back.
1500 m in 50 mins. Felt really good
The Bad - Hot Tub was bathtub warm not Hot Tub Hot.0 -
Hello everyone - still haven't been swimming but Dad is now out of hospital which is good.
On the not so good side I also went to see a specialist yesterday about some hand and arm pain and apparently this is due to a thoracic outlook restriction something or other which the Doc believes was brought on by my sternum injury last September. The Doc made me do some simple movements to test flexibility (which I was fine with) but this morning my sternum is painful again, so I will stay out of the water for another few days to rest it. Physio is not booked for another couple of weeks though, so when I do swim again it will be "light swimming" if there is such a thing
And as for the five people circle swimming - to me that is more the norm than the exception - its OK when everyone is roughly the same speed, but gets painful when there are faster/slower swimmers - luckily the lanes are large enough that you can overtake whilst circle swimming provided there are no swimmers that are flaying their arms about.
Good idea to rest and let the body recuperate!
Glad Dad out of hospital
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Proper swim this morning as there were only three of us in a lane.
500m free
10 x 50m sprints on 65 secs
250m breast
250m back
5 x 100m sprints on 2mins 10
200 cooldown0 -
1500 40:55. Not my most brilliant swim. OTOH, when I'm out in SF Bay, my body will be glad this one HAPPENED!0
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1500m (30 laps), 60mins, alternating breaststroke, sidestroke, freestyle laps.0
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4 miles every day this week so far. One of those days was back at my old Y and in 86 degree water. Feels good going in but I can feel the heat coming off my head when I pause. I like the 78-79 degrees of my usual YMCA.
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4 miles every day this week so far. One of those days was back at my old Y and in 86 degree water. Feels good going in but I can feel the heat coming off my head when I pause. I like the 78-79 degrees of my usual YMCA.
I don't feel like I've had a good workout unless my hair is hot when I take off my cap!0 -
NoelFigart1 wrote: »I don't feel like I've had a good workout unless my hair is hot when I take off my cap!
A lot harder to do that in a 78 degree pool.
I love it cool.
One day last year, the heater shut down and required a manual restart in the morning. The pool was 73 degrees. Took a couple extra laps to warm up but it was great.0 -
*chuckles* Honey, that happens in open water swims for me. I heat up easy.0
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I wish...... Poorly child, poorly parents. (Glad your dad out of hospital Panda). Hey ho.
Next week I guess...0 -
1000y, not sure of the time. I wasn't feeling great, but wanted to get into the pool. Holy cow. It felt so good. I decided not to push it, since I've been feeling under the weather for a couple of days.0
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2.5 km Wednesday! much slower than usual. I guess the body was making adjustments following the sprints on Tuesday! Today I anticipate a training session with coach and some kids, but will see if that materializes! If not, I'll just do my own sprints!
Having the Garmin really helps keep track of times in interval type trainng, which it was tricky to do previously having to mentally calculate rest intervals on my previous digital wristwatch even as I was gasping for breath!0 -
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Hi Aquatic - 3 people is no problem - its just about the timing but as the other swimmers in the lane were about the same speed as me I didn't have a problem. Anymore than that though and its nigh on impossible!0
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1500 40:17.
I am getting to prefer longer freestyle sets. I also mapped out a mile on a lake I like to swim in anticipation of the open water training season. Unfortunately, I won't be getting in earlier than mid-May or so. I'm already chomping at the bit.0 -
AquaticQuests wrote: »
If I was swimming with someone close to my pace, I used to ask if they wanted to join me, or sometimes I was asked if I wanted to join someone on a set. Sometimes it works out great and you find a new lane buddy and someone who will help you push yourself and other times it helps clear out a lane if they don't take you up on your offer.0 -
One of those days where the laps just flew by. I was deep in the zone, feeling the rhythm, grooving to my "AffirmaBet", and before you know it, 54 laps and 72 minutes were up!0
