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Ironman Lake Placid

The Mental Swim

This morning was feeling kind of tired and thinking that it would be a good day for an easy workout in the pool. I got there when the door opened to the pool at 5:25 and started my warmup. Unlike Friday though, quite a few other people were there on time this morning so a few hundred into the swim I had someone right behind me pushing me. That’s the great thing about swimming with a group, someone always there pushing you. After the normal warmup,pull, kick we started our sets.

I don’t really like to lead because I feel like I have to keep up with the guy leading in the next lane over, and he is usually either fast or really fast. Erin forced me to lead though, her thinking was I do free for everything so I wouldn’t have to work as hard when they did stroke. Well, that would have been nice, except for the fact that out of the 1000 yards in the first set they only did 100 stroke! I’m glad she had me lead though, it really forced me to work hard. The second set through was easier though as they did more stroke for the first 500.

500 warmup
400 pull
100 kick
500 4×125 1:50
300 4×75   1:20
200 4×50   :50
500 4×125 2:05
300 4×75    1:10
200 4×50   :50
600 3×200 pull
Total: 3600

Weight: 167.5

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