Tag: Swim

You never know what kind of day you are going to get on a Friday at the pool. Sometimes it is kinda slow and people drift in and then there are days like today, when people are ready to go. I also got a reminder of just how slow of a swimmer I am today when one of the fastests swimmers in the area jumped into my lane half way through the workout. Now I know what a real swimmer looks like.

600 – warmup
400 – pull
300 – kick
– Main set 4 times –
200 on 3:30
200 – 100×2 on 1:30
200 – 50×4 on 45
2400
– Main set –
Total: 3700 yards 

Weight: 167.5

Good morning in the pool. It felt a little short, but after the long ride yesterday that was ok. The pace was a little slower than normal because Mr. Speed was not in the other lane today. Although a young college grad did show up and put a hurting on most of us anyway. I can’t remember where they said she swam, but she was pretty fast and tough to keep up with.

500 – warmup
500 – 10×50
500 – 5×100 pull
300 – free
300 – 4×75 – stroke
300 – free
300 – 4×75 – stroke
300 – free
300 – kick
300 – cooldown
200 – under/overs
Total: 3500 yards

Weight: 167.5

It was a good morning in the pool today, everyone was in pretty early and ready to go. I think today was the first time that I actually finished the same amount of yards as everyone else kicking. Most of the time I get in about half of what everyone else is doing for kick, part of that is because they all have flippers on. I did most of the leading today in my lane, the pulls were tough, I didn’t slow anyone down in my lane, but keeping up with the lead guy in the next lane wasn’t going so well! Maybe I need to get paddles like everyone else for pulling?

500 warmup
500 4×125 pull
300 4×75 kick
500 25,50,75,100,100,75,50,25
600 3×200 pull
500 25,60,75,100,100,75,50,25
600 3×200 pull
200 cooldown (under/overs)
Total: 3700 yards

Weight: 167

I’ve never seen so few people at the pool as this morning. Usually there is at least three or four per the two lanes that we use. Today there were three total for the first half hour! After the normal warmup, pull, kick we started doing 100 pull on 1:30 and that was giving me about 5 seconds rest. We made it through eight of them and Karen decided that was enough and by that time some other people showed up. Ended up doing another 1200. A little bit shorter than normal, but not too bad.

700 warmup
500 pull
200 kick
800 – 100×8 on 1:30 pull
600 – 150×2 75×4
600 – 150×2 75×4
Total: 3400

Weight: 168

Today was one of the easier swims. As I’ve said in the past it seems like friday is a lazy day at the pool. I did our standard warmup, pull, kick and was thinking are we ever going to start the main set today or am I just going to do laps. The first time through the main set we did free, so that was a pretty good workout. The next set they did stroke though, and since I just do free it was a bit easier for me. Maybe after Ironman I will start to become more proficient in the other strokes, but for now I’m sticking with free.

700 warmup
500 pull
200 kick
800 1×200 2×100 4×50 8×25
800 1×200 2×100 4×50 8×25
450 pull
500 cooldown
Total: 3950

Weight: 169

Had a good swim workout at the pool this morning. The 500 hundred sets were tough, the first not too bad, but the next two were tough. The second and third were harder because I really pushed it on the 50 sprints. Even though we were doing the 50s on a minute I was getting them done right around 35 seconds. Unfortunately I’m not in good enough shape to recover from that and keep pace on the next 500. Oh well, it was fun doing the 50s hard.

500 warmup
500 pull
200 kick
500 5×100 on 1:30
200 4×50   on 1:00
500 5×100 on 1:45
200 4×50   on 1:00
500 5×100 on 1:30
200 4×50   on 1:00
500 cooldown
Total: 3800

Weight: 167.5