Did you swim today?
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4 miles today.
3000 (55 minutes)
500 kick board and fins
500 pull buoy and pads
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Ha- Lay-be-Jewel-Ya! after a week of being too sick to swim, I was back in the water today! Feels SO good!0
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4500 yards @ 80 minutes
500 warm up
10 x 50 @ 60 5 free/5 free/back
5 x 100 @ 1:50 free
5 x 200 @ 3:30 pull
1000 kick with fins
200 stroke technique
10 x 50 @ 60 5 free/5 free/back
300 loosen down
Focus for the work out, stop the superman push off and work on streamlining. Amazing how quickly I got back in the habit.
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Adult Swim Club, we have grown. On avg we had 9 people in 2016, we now have 12 and that means 4 per lane. We swapped back and forth on lanes until we were matched up on speed.
1750m
WarmUp; 50m; Fr, Kick, Bk, Kick, Fr
WO; 50m x 2 on 10 sec RI.
Side kick, Face down, Switch lead arms on breath
Stream Line kick on front
3 - 6 - 3; 3 Stroke, 6 Kick, 3 Stroke; breath on 3rd stroke
Distance / Stroke
Shark Drill
Finger Drag
50 Ez
3 x 100m Fr; D/Stroke; last 25m fast
6 x 50m Fr
Cool Down 100 Bk, 100 Br, 50 Ez
That was a lot of fun and a real challenge due to the difference in speed between everybody.0 -
So, I'm usually a counter-- keeping track of my laps with my elaborate "affirmation alphabet" , but I am now in rehearsal for a one-woman play, and so went by clock time yesterday and today so I could practice my lines. Yesterday, I was right at my regular 72 to 73 minutes; today, it was right at 80.0
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@Montepulciano, what's the superman push off? (I wonder if I'm doing it...)
A decent swim yesterday after last Friday's disaster. 50 minutes. No idea how far. A mile, maybe?0 -
Had to look up the shark drill...cool. May add that in to focus on hand entry a bit. Thanks!0
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Ah when you push off the wall and your hands are separated at shoulder width apart (like when superman flies) rather than being together and streamlined. This is a good explanation on it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llQMyM8hR7U 0 -
Double Dip Day. In the pool at noon and it was Glorious, 3 lanes and 2 swimmers.
Started with 750m Tri-Athlon Time Trial. 18:05 = a PB for me. Still have a way to go as I want to be sub 17:00. So to knock off a minute on 30 lengths = 2 secs/length. Which sounds easy but I am at that point where the Gains/rewards are smaller than the effort put in.
2 min RI then 200m Back, 200m Breast, 100m kick for 1250m total.
Back in the water at 6pm with 3 members of the Tri-Athlon club, they were doing their 750m TT. Another glorious swim as there was 6 lane swimmers and 8 public swimmers, so the LG's put in another lane for us. I split a lane with one of the TT and we stayed single sided to eliminate conflicts. Also since I wasn't TT if I saw the person coming for the wall I held back or accelerated to get out of the way making their turns easier. All I did was practise 3 stroke breathing, Flip turns @ Deep end, Touch and go turns in the shallow end. Still a work in progress on Flip Turns - more bad turns than good turns. The normal issues, Short, Long, Deep, Secondary arm push(pull) late etc. Wasn't counting lengths so based on time in the water best Guestimate is another 1000m.
Daily Total 2250m
@Montepulciano Ironic that you had a Flip Turn Video posted and that is what I was working on tonight.
In my previous post I had the one drill listed as Shark Drill not to be confused with the related Shark Fin Drill which is quite different. Also the version we did after you did the Shark you would then complete a Stroke on that side and roll to repeat it on the other side. So many versions of the same drill with slight variations.
It can be overwhelming how many Video clips are available for swimming technique.0 -
Another pus swim but a swim nonetheless. Iron levels still through the floor!
2000m
400 free
200 kick
4x 50 IMO
2x 100IM
200 kick
4x 50 IMO
2x 100IM
200 kick
200 easy pace (2.55)1 -
@emmab0902 At least you have found the issue with low iron levels, unfortunately it will take a while for the levels to build back up to a normal level. Hang in there.
Your 200 ez is a full minute faster than my race pace, I would love to have that skill.1 -
Another no-count/ by the clock day: 70 minutes1
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4500 yards @ 80 minutes.
I read a list of 12 things that annoy coaches. Yeah, some of them hit home, like breaths in and out of the wall, lazy push offs (hence that particular focus this week) and of course the ever popular goggle delay. It doesn't matter if your 15 or 50, some things remain the same.2 -
Adult Swim Club 1550m
WarmUp; 50m; Fr, Kick, Bk, Kick, Bk
WO; Backstroke day. 50m x 2 ( 3 for the speedsters )
Side kick - A version of 6 kick Switch; Switch sides on pull.
Stream Line kick.
Shark Fin, Lift Arm out of water, roll and then drop arm back into water.
6 Kick Switch, 6 Kicks, Rotate & Pull.
50m Distance / Stroke. 21 & 22 Strokes
6 Kick
50 Ez
6 x 75m Back; Fast on last 25m. 10s RI
Cool Down 50 Bk, 100 Br, 50 Ez 1550m
Again it was a really good workout, had one more lady join in so now we are at 13 members which makes for very crowded 3 lanes - busy workout. We are pace matched so it's not bad. The difficulty today was a few of the less experienced Back Stroker's were wandering around - crossing over the Imaginary Center Line and we had a few collisions, near misses and accidental Body Contact passes. Anyone who has done backstroke drills knows exactly what I mean.1 -
Montepulciano wrote: »4500 yards @ 80 minutes.
I read a list of 12 things that annoy coaches. Yeah, some of them hit home, like breaths in and out of the wall, lazy push offs (hence that particular focus this week) and of course the ever popular goggle delay. It doesn't matter if your 15 or 50, some things remain the same.
Haha I can relate to this. First of all, last night my turns sucked big time. The main sets were 12x100 on 1:45 and 4 x200 on 3:30 and I breathed into almost every single turn. Horrible I know and I will confess to even breathing into a turn without a stroke.
BUT, I am proud to say, that I swam with 4 other people in my lane and --no joke-- I am old enough to be mother to each and everyone of them and they could not complete either set (many goggle problems,... ahem) and I did it all. At one point the coach really chewed them out.2 -
I'm always in awe of distance and time in this group. And those who do both... wow.
I had another slow swim, but it made up for my crappy Friday swim last week. I got 55 minutes with relatively few goggle/music problems. At one point, I had water creeping in my ears (kills the music) and I was trying to get my 500y time. I considered stopping to fix my music, but I was in a rhythm and decided I could put up with it for the remaining 5 laps. Problem was, since I waited to take care of the music, I got distracted by that and forgot my time...
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4500 @ 80 minutes. My arms are tired that it is Friday. Having a focus this week kept my head in the pool and over all better results I believe.0
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Newbie here....1200 yds at 40 minutes. Did kickboard (flutter and frog), free with pool buoy, breast, back, and side strokes.2
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Welcome @principalviolinist. Nice workout!0
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10km plus an OCD lap. 3:28:Xx.
220 laps.3 -
Wow, great job @fishgutzy!1
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Montepulciano wrote: »Wow, great job @fishgutzy!
Super bowl weekend. Had to get my Patriots Karma deposit submitted.
Last time the won the super bowl I did a10km swim that weekend.0 -
My team, the Packers, got knocked out in the playoffs by Atlanta. Perhaps it was because I did not do my karma swim for them. *raising a fist at the Football gods*1
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An hour and 2550 yds. Drizzly and 40 degrees kept the pool relatively uncrowded.
Left shoulder has really been bothering me, but swimming doesn't hurt much except for my open turns that I now do with the right arm.
Looking forward to a very quiet swim tomorrow
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45 minutes. Not long, but long enough to leave it all at the bottom of the pool It might be time for a lap counter though... I never have any idea how far I swim. I'm always curious when I'm done though. 1
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Meant to be competing in the New Zealand Masters Games tonight and tomorrow night. But with my iron stores almost non existent and my sad lack of training, I'm not sure if I'll end up swimming!
Had entered the 50 100 and 200 backstroke, the 200IM and the 200 and 400 free, so will probably end up doing only a couple if any.
Feeling massive pressure from friends etc to do well, which is why I am wanting to pull out. They don't get that I'm not fit or in good condition at the moment and I'm struggling with the fear of letting everyone down and having them disappointed in me. (Childhood issues die hard!)0 -
Good luck on what ever you decide to compete in, @emmab0902!
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4500 yards @ 80 minutes. So motivating to have people faster than I am in the pool!2
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Wimpy pool folks let a little snow get in the way of taking off the pool covers
-- maybe tomorrow.
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@nuffer Booo!
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