Did you swim today?
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2150m Adult Swim Club.
Warmup 50m x Free, Kick & Pull
Free 4 x
50m Kick
50m Free
50m Fist
50m Pull
100m Free
3x
25m 1 Arm Fly
50m Breast with Dolphin
75m SharkFin Board ( Board between Thighs and slap it and end of each stroke )
100m IM
100m Free
200m Cooldown easy
I was hurting from Tuesday Nights Kick@$$ swim and Wednesdays RunClub so this was a struggle right from the first stroke.2 -
gentlygently wrote: »Er - I hope you don't mind my pointing this out, but it wasn't exactly the warmest welcome back to the group last week from the 'old familiars' after my year out !
Mmm. Has this group lost its supportive mojo, or did I just pick an unlucky week to dive back in?!
A lot probably post their swims without reading other posts. Or use the like buttons etc instead of an actual reply. But welcome back!
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750m
focusing on stroke count today, really gentle and gliding haha
250m - got down to 16 strokes (generally 18)
250m with hand fins - down to 14 (generally 16)
250m mixed breaststroke and front crawl (got breaststroke to 10 strokes)0 -
Coach felt our club sucks at endurance and triathlon season is coming up!
1000 m free warmup
800 m pull and paddle
600 m increasing speed by 100s
400 m negative split
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gentlygently wrote: »I have to take it gently....doctor's orders. So it was a Big Deal for me to add getting back into the pool into my schedule last week.
Er - I hope you don't mind my pointing this out, but it wasn't exactly the warmest welcome back to the group last week from the 'old familiars' after my year out !
Mmm. Has this group lost its supportive mojo, or did I just pick an unlucky week to dive back in?!
@gentlygently As Emma said sometimes I (we) post without reading all the accomplishments-swims of others. As an example I knew that Emma was going to Wellington but had car trouble and that she had been doing some open water swims as training for an event. Just didn't connect the dots of Open Water event in Wellington until I saw her post of the medal. Also I get a little overwhelmed trying to keep up with the Running Group monthly challenge, Local run club, Triathlon club, swimming, curling etc.
So welcome back glad to see you able to get into the water and make some laps.0 -
I haven't been in the pool as regularly. I had that awesome swim a week ago. Then on Monday, it was awful. No fault of my own, but holy cow--swimmers using kickboards VERTICALLY to swim down. I know that I should have switched lanes, but when I get in with swimmers who are much faster, that isn't great either. I stuck it out, but good grief. I ended up bailing on Tuesday to spend time alone with my husband instead of trying again at the same pool. Last swim team swim is next week, then back to my regular routine.
Welcome back, gently! The support is still here, but I will add that I'm also not posting as much--winter
It's good to see you back. It must have felt SO GOOD to get in the water again! 1 -
3200m. First proper swim using a programme since August. And I forgot how hard they are!!
200 free
200 free kick
200 free pull
4x 200 free cruise pace on 3.30
(3.03 3.00 3.00 3.00)
100 back easy
3x 200 free moderate pace on 3.45
(2.57 2.54 2.54)
100 back easy
2x 200 free faster pace on 4.00
(2.52 2.46)
100 back easy
6x 50 back on 1.30 descending to #6 max
200 warmdown
Go home
Eat
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Congratulations on the medal Emma.
Today I swam 1 mile @ 57 minutes
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Finally... 45 laps last night, 48 + an aquafit class this morning. I secured permits to climb Mt. St. Helens this summer, so training has officially moved to the forefront! I've been told that any training in water is good for altitude training, so I'm grateful that I already like swimming
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Another heinous 3200m
400 warmup
50 kick 50 swim
100 kick 100 swim
150 kick 150 swim
200 kick 200 swim
(All continuous)
6x 150 as
100 free on 2.00 (1.26 or below)
50 back on 1.00 (45 or below)
200 free loosen
200 back
100 kick
2x 100IM (not even funny)
200 warmdown
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I was inspired by @fishgutzy and decided to try a 4 mile swim this week. For the record I was so tired afterwards, but I felt accomplished as well.
Warm up
400 swim
400 kick
400 pull
Main Set
24 x 75- kick, drill, pull rest 10 sec
6 x 150 rest 15 sec
6 x 100 rest 10 sec
6 x 50 rest 5 sec
12 x 25- sprints @ 45 sec
6 x 50 rest 5 sec
6 x 100 rest 10 sec
6 x 150 rest 15 sec
Warm down
200 pull
200 kick
100 easy
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YosemiteSlamAK wrote: »I was inspired by @fishgutzy and decided to try a 4 mile swim this week. For the record I was so tired afterwards, but I felt accomplished as well.
@YosemiteSlamAK Well done. Although I think @fishgutzy would have skipped the drills and just made laps so that would help a lot on energy required.1 -
2600m
200 warmup
3x 300 free with paddles on 5.00
200 back
4x 150IM (25 fly 50 back 25 br 50 free) on 3.00
200 kick
500 free easy to warmdown0 -
Well done Yosemite, that sounds a great goal Curly. And I am wryly amused at even you finding the trainkng programmes hard Emmab!
Anyway - still finding the webbing on my feet after my long gap. So another 850m swim, in 31 mins - this time pretty continual swimming. And a 'sprint' at the end - 50m frontcrawl in 66 secs. I think i used to do around 56? Need to check up.
Did it floral alphabet style - lap a was picturing amaryllus, b buddlea , c crocuses etc. Rather enjoyable.
Just a shame they were not selling flowers in the market near my pool today after the swim!
And thanks for the comments etc - the likes etc are indeed new to me (i will join in!) and quite right Juliet3445 there was a bit of pot calling kettle black going on...(Being ill gets in your head sometimes - I usually spot it /cope ok but not always! Thanks for pointing it out so nicely)
It is good to be back in the pool and posting! Xx3 -
2km ocean swim this morning. Decided that I only like sea swimming when it's flat lol. Was rougher water today and not fun. Ended up well off course and had to do a few diagonal swims to get back on track to the buoys!0
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2km ocean swim this morning. Decided that I only like sea swimming when it's flat lol. Was rougher water today and not fun. Ended up well off course and had to do a few diagonal swims to get back on track to the buoys!
Emma, is it possible to do open water swimming slowly? Every time I am swimming next to the high schoolers when 40 of them are all doing butterfly at once, I feel so tossed around, I cannot picture myself swimming in open water. It seems like you'd have to be strong or fast enough to stay the course. Not to mention the challenge of sighting. I used to think it might be fun, but I think I'd have to stick to a small cove or something. All that up and down too...2 -
girlwithcurls2 wrote: »2km ocean swim this morning. Decided that I only like sea swimming when it's flat lol. Was rougher water today and not fun. Ended up well off course and had to do a few diagonal swims to get back on track to the buoys!
Emma, is it possible to do open water swimming slowly? Every time I am swimming next to the high schoolers when 40 of them are all doing butterfly at once, I feel so tossed around, I cannot picture myself swimming in open water. It seems like you'd have to be strong or fast enough to stay the course. Not to mention the challenge of sighting. I used to think it might be fun, but I think I'd have to stick to a small cove or something. All that up and down too...
It's impossible not to do it slowly when it's choppy lol. Felt like swimming in a washing machine today!
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Swam 1 mile @ 47 minutes2
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Oh ugh... I was NOT feeling it last night. Monday night. Last week was my awful swim with all of the non swimmers. I was half expecting a repeat of that, with the addition of being extraordinarily tired. The lanes were pretty full when I peeked in, so I told myself to get changed and go to the hot tub. I had run a little over 8 miles the day before, and I was still feeling the effects of that. By the time I got out to the deck, it had cleared out. Oh noooo!!! No reason not to swim. So I did a mile. Not one lap more. It was OK, but I am glad I didn't do any more. I was just beat. Sat in the hot tub, went home and had a cup of tea, and slept like a baby. Hopefully there's more juice in me tonight!2
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1900 meters today in 53 minutes. Arms are a little stiff now lol.2
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Adult Swim Club - Warmup 50m Kick, Free, Back, Choice of Pull drill
Dryland Torture
X3
Superman Planks in Front, Iron Cross, Shoulders 30secs
Situps 20
Plank Elbows to Palms - 20 sec each - much grumbling and threatening to throw coach in pool or snow bank outside.
Dolphin 4 x 25 - 15 SRI
2 x IM
Breast Stroke set X3
Victor Davis 50m
Kick 50m
2Kick-1Pull 50m
Slide Drill 50m
100m
Cooldown 100m easy choice0 -
1900m mixed with circuits
250m relaxed
250m with hand fins
300m relaxed
150m breathing to 9 (part of circuits)
50m legs only (part of circuits)
50m arms only (part of circuits)
50m pushing 2 bricks underwater - break at 25m
500m with hand fins
200m relaxed
50m breaststroke - warm up for underwater
50m breaststroke -around 42 underwater - SO CLOSE!!0 -
Warm up
400 swim
200 kick
Main set
3x through
10 x 50 Free @ 1:00
10 x 50 breast @ 1:00
3 x 200 pull @ 4:00
150 kick (50 dolphin, 50 flutter, 50 breast)
2 x 200 back @ 4:00
I made sure to take water breaks more often as I cramped up last week when I moved up to 4 miles. Still got a couple cramps, but was able to swim through to the wall.
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2500m
800 free
200 kick
200 pull
2x 300 free with paddles on 5.00 - focus on finishing stroke which was not fun having done triceps at the gym yesterday!
200 kick
200
200 back
100 warmdown1 -
2000m
500m warm up
500m with hand fins
100m sprint (1:35)
50m relaxed
100m sprint (1:34)
250m relaxed
250m with hand fins
250m relaxed - finished this with 50m underwater try - got to around 37m, not as good today
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Started my running 10k training plan on monday, which kicks me up from avoiding running to running 4 days a week. Thursday is my overlap day of swimming in the morning and running in the evening and of course today is the day the masters coach decided to go all out on kicking. I'm a (pathetic) triathlete, darn it, I don't kick while swimming!
2650m
1000m free
150m kick
3x100 fast free
4x150 IMO (50 kick/50 drill/50 swim)
4x50 kick (50 dolphin/50 flutter)
4x50 free (25 no breath [I took a breath at the halfway mark]/25 easy])
200 free cooldown1 -
As part of the local Triathlon training they do a swim set in the pool where 3 people with matched pace swim the edge of the pool, all the non-swimmers have kickboards and are "Making Waves" to imitate the washing machine effect. No break in the deep end as a bunch of us tread water in a line up beside each other and synchronize the wave making push to create some big-deep trough waves that re-bound off the end wall getting the swimmers from both sides. The swimming is no fun, making the waves is a blast. Especially if you manage to force someone to take a breather break.It's impossible not to do it slowly when it's choppy lol. Felt like swimming in a washing machine today!
Tuesday and Thursday have the potential to be my Overlap days. Not a lot of fun on the 2nd activity.UmmSqueaky wrote: »Thursday is my overlap day of swimming in the morning and running in the evening and of course today is the day the masters coach decided to go all out on kicking. I'm a (pathetic) triathlete, darn it, I don't kick while swimming!
Professional Triathletes have a swimming kick, most amateur's don't, saving the legs for the Bike and the Run.
Have you ever over-exerted on the bike and when you transition into running your legs still want to make pedal circles = instant face plant. Did that the first time I did a Bike-Run brick session. Lesson Learned.
Adult swim club tonight and I am feeling the effects of the Tuesday night dry land and Wednesday night downhill skiing.0 -
juliet3455 wrote: »YosemiteSlamAK wrote: »I was inspired by @fishgutzy and decided to try a 4 mile swim this week. For the record I was so tired afterwards, but I felt accomplished as well.
@YosemiteSlamAK Well done. Although I think @fishgutzy would have skipped the drills and just made laps so that would help a lot on energy required.
True. I mix in spent laps and do kick and hand pad pull buoy drills in the middle.
Since I'm not training for anything I don't do hard drill sets.
When I'm doing a 10km, it is straight pacing.1 -
Swim Club 2150m.
I am one of the Middle of the Pack swimmers so when there are a lot of new members or slower swimmers they bump me up into the next faster lane - knowing that I will try to stay close as long as possible and not be a lane blocker once I start to burn out. Tonight I was bumped up into the 2nd group so I had to push pretty hard.
I guess that also means that some times I am just going with the pack not pushing myself to the edge of endurance.
50m, Kick, Free Pull as warm-up.
Free set x 3 on 15 SecRI
100m Distance per stroke; Max distance -Minimum stroke count - try to maintain same stroke count/25m
50m Single arm L
50m Single arm R
4 x 25m Sprint @ 60 secs.
That was a real Kicker of a set. By the 2nd set the one arm drills were real tough as my kick was starting to fade so every time you went for a stroke I would start to submarine which makes for tough breathing
Fly set x 3 on 15 SecRI
50m Dolphin with Board
50m Body Dolphin
25m Fly One arm L
25m Fly One Arm R
50m Fly
2 x 200m Free with minimum of 3 Dolphin Kicks off the wall. 30 SecRI
100m Easy Cooldown.
Well Wipped/wupped by the end of that session. Enjoyed it though.1 -
2500m
200 warmup
6x 150 kick as
100 moderate on 2.30
50 fast on 1.30
100 back
12x 100 free as
3x
3x 100 on 1.40 holding 1.26 or below
1x 100 on 2.20 holding 1.22 or below
100 warmdown0
