Did you swim today?
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4 miles this morning.
2000, 2000 FC
500 kick board and fins.
500 pull buoy and hand pads.
2050 FC.1 -
Did a couple of 2-mile swims the last couple of days, but now I'm going to rest up for a 5k (3.1-mile) open water swim on Sunday. I missed the online registration deadline but emailed the organizer and he gave me a code to register as a volunteer, which means I also get to write on people with a magic marker before the race. How cool is that?5
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Today: 1 mile @ 65 minutes2
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Swimming a 5K open water swim...lovely.
Marking other people with a magic marker...priceless.3 -
2 of the ladies from the Triathlon Swim Club were in the pool so we each wrote out a drill on the White board. While we were doing the warm up & kick set the Senior instructor walked past the board, stopped and she added in the 200m and 400m timed swims.
100m Pull, 100m Crawl as warm-up.
75m Split Kick Drill Ladder repeats
50m free - 25m kick
25m free - 50m kick
25m free - 25m kick
25m free - 50m kick
50m free - 25m kick
6 x 50m Pull, Pool Buoy. Still working on my Left hand entry and left shoulder breathing.
200m Timed crawl 4:16
Broken 200m Pyramid sets. Flip turns in deep end.
8 x 25m @ 45
4 x 50m @ 1:15
2 x 100m @ 2:30
1 x 200m @ 4:00 ( yea this took 4:25 so no rest at the wall )
2 x 100m @ 2:30
4 x 50m @ 1:15
8 x 25m @ 45
4 x 25m easy - Breathing on 3 outbound,5 inbound
400m Timed Swim; 10:12. Total 3050m
Killer - especially with the 2 added timed crawl sets.3 -
I think I've found the perfect time to swim! 9pm on a friday night - absolute bliss. I went last friday for a recovery swim (as I was a walking bundle of DOMS from the gym
) and found that the main pool was closed off for canoe polo and lap swimmers were in the dive pool. Luckily night swimming apparently isn't to popular in my university town so for 90% of the time I was the only person in the entire pool! Every now and again someone would hop into a lane a few away from me and do some laps but that was it. And I quite enjoyed looking at the floor 5m below me, it just felt so much more peaceful than normal. I did my usual 2.5km set.
I was planning on repeating the experience tomorrow night but had a cortisone shot in my shoulder yesterday and the orthopod told me to stay away from the gym/pool until at least monday so unfortunately it will have to wait another week!3 -
4100 yards, 89 minutes. I was struggling to get to the pool today, and this group inspired me to get there...so thanks.2
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Went to the pool, got all set, walked out onto the pool deck and my cap split as I went to put it on. Keep a spare in your bag, lesson learned.0
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4 miles again.
5AM is a good time to swim. usually just 2 of us in 8 lanes for the first 30 minutes or so.
Summer time, no swim teams in the morning. At most 4 lanes occupied at some pint between 5AM and a little after 7 when I'm done.
After work work out today will be archery with the kids if it is not raining.
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Sounds like a nice day, Fishgutzy.
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Gaaah I haven't been swimming since I started this job. I've been walking, and lifting...and tomorrow I'm doing an aerial obstacle course thingy...I hope the TI workshop next week works! Then I can finally join the early morning lap swim.2
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Recycled one of the Tri-Athlon Swim Club workouts.
A mini version of my previous swim and no Time Trial sets.
200m warm up then Broken 800m x2
4 x 25 @ 45
2 x 50 @ 1:15
1 x 100 @ 2:30
1 x 200 @ 4:00
1 x 100 @ 2:30
2 x 50 @ 1:15
4 x 25 @ 45
4 minute rest - Repeat above set
75m Split Kick Ladders
50 Free - 25 kick
25 free - 50 kick
25 Free - 25 kick
25 Free - 50 kick
50 Free - 25 kick
Flip turn practise - About 50% are semi-decent - the rest are not good.
To short and can't touch the wall or to long and feet hit the wall above the water, or it is a really slow ugly turn and I end up deep below the T. Good thing I do all my practise in the deep end. If I was in the shallow ( 32" ) I would be banging my head on the bottom of the pool.
Still it was a good evening in the pool. 3 swimmers and 1 double lane.Montepulciano wrote: »Went to the pool, got all set, walked out onto the pool deck and my cap split as I went to put it on. Keep a spare in your bag, lesson learned.
@Montepulciano that's why I have 2 sets of goggles and trunks in my swim bag. Could have been worse - imagine if your suit self destructed.2 -
2250 with the club
400 warmup
2x 200 free on 3.30
200 kick
2x 100 within 7s of PB on 2.00
400 as 200 back/100 free/100 breaststroke
2x 75 fly
400IM
100 easy
Have been in touch with one of New Zealand's former Olympic coaches who writes individual training plans. He only takes on 3 swimmers a year but has agreed to take me on when he gets back from Rio. He says it'll involve 5 days a week in the pool plus gym work!!! Can't see that happening with four kids on my own plus full-time work. Will see what happens!4 -
@emmab0902 Hoping the Potential coaching situation works out for you.
I was speed reading the running and swimming threads while catching up on events and on line friends and initially read it as " Your former New Zealand Olympic coach " had to go back and read it a 2nd time.1 -
3000 yard @ 62 minutes
25/50/75/100/100/75/50/25 warmup
10 x 50 @ 60 5 free, 5 free/back
1000 kick with fins (400 flutter/300 50 back/50 flutter/300 25 dolphin/25 flutter
100/75/50/25 stroke (catchup and glide)
10 x 50 @ 60 5 free, 5 free/back
100/75/50/25 cool down
Focused on alternate breathing rather than every fourth. Felt a touch dizzy at time, but getting back into the habit.0 -
So last Sunday I did a 67-mile trail bike ride and then swam 2 miles on Monday and 2 miles again on Tuesday. Over the past week I had averaged 140+ minutes per day of working out. Bottom line: over-trained and in serious need of rest, recuperation, and rebuilding.
But on Wednesday I was given the opportunity to do a 5k (3.1-mile) open-water swim today. Not much time to rest and recuperate. No time to train, but I jumped at the opportunity because it is a great event organized by a super nice guy and it is the repeat of my first endurance event ever last year. I rested up as much as I could. The last couple of days I even loaded up on carbs, which is very unusual for me. I've always done 3-6 mile swims on a totally empty stomach, sometimes fasting one or even two days before hand (yes, I know, I'm weird, but I wanted to learn about ketosis and train my body to more easily drain my liver of fat stores).
This first experience of carb-loading was very uncomfortable for me. Felt very bloated and even lethargic, but I have to say it paid off. My time was 12 minutes better than last year at the same event, and, more importantly, I felt strong and and able to sprint hard at the end. Able to recognize when I was becoming unfocused and remedy the situation with disciplined concentration on my stroke and take aim at swimmers in front of me, not all of them, of course, but some of them. Although, I am not better trained at swimming than last year, I am in better cardiovascular shape, so that is definitely part of it, but the carb-loading seems like the biggest difference from last year. Bottom line, I'm beginning to believe my pulmonologist. Do as much as you can do. There are no limits.5 -
Great result and listening to your body is an excellent thing. I know for me, I have spent the past few decades intentionally not listening to it, so this was an excellent reminder.
Congrats on the best time and taking advantage of the chance to swim!1 -
0600 early morning splash. Started out 4 people in the pool- 3 dbl lanes
. About 500m into my planned 2km the gang showed up. Now 7 people per lane and really hard to get back into a rhythm. Called it at 1500m. 0 -
45 minutes and 2500 yards. Just felt like bleah in the water, low and like I was swimming uphill, both ways. Perhaps partly due to not eating enough yesterday? Back on track with calories today. I will admit that I felt better after swimming even if it was not the work out I wanted. 0
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10km today3
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Blown shoulder again. Feels like more rotator cuff tears and the bicep tendon off its track again. Not happy.0
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@emmab0902 Wish I had a magic wand and could remove all your injuries and pain.1
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@emmab0902 I'm so sorry
This has been a rough time for you. Sending you good thoughts, healing thoughts, happy thoughts 
I managed to get a mile in yesterday. I can't remember the last time I swam a mile, so I was pleased. It made such a difference during the second half that I had done my superman drill after warming up. It was much easier to stay long and flat. I was exhausted before I started, but felt really good afterward (not good enough to stay for the cardio class...). Back for more today. I'm not sure how much, but it's good to be back in the water.0 -
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3000 yards, 67 minutes. Just really focusing on getting my stroke right with alternate breathing. I swear it was not this hard 30 years ago. Ah well persistence will pay off. 1
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2400m. Want to keep moving until told otherwise.
300 warmup
4x 100 IM drills
3x 200IM descending
400 kick
3x 200 free
100 easy
Tolerable. Back to physio on Friday!0 -
Well done Curly! And good keeping going emma - and others.
1k 40 mins usual glassmills mixed routine
So a bit slower than usual and a while since the last - my 'shoulder injury' has been getting in the way again. So I am pleased I went.
Was not feeling the love tho.....
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Snuck in a half hour before class. I could feel it in my arms and shoulders (those places that never get worked out when I am running, walking, hiking...) Today isn't a pool day, but back again tomorrow. I am thrilled that my form didn't diminish any after a 4 week absence. It didn't get any better, lol, but I am still learning and putting things together each and every time I go to the pool, so it was exciting not to feel like my nose was grazing the bottom of the pool
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3000 yards in 60 minutes.
Almost have my stroke back with the whole alternate side breathing, so will increase yardage a bit tomorrow.1
