Pete's swim blog

Swam w/ Dave x 2. Pool temp back to 86 but at least cool water was blowing out of the jets.

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400 Warm up

400 Free - 6:00 (4:55)
300 - 5:15 (3 x 50 K/50 Free)
200 - 3:15 (100 IM/100 Free)
100 Fly - 1:30
100 free - 1:30
200 - 3:15 (100 IM/100 Free)
300 - 5:15 (3 x 50 K/50 Free)
1:00 Break
400 IM Timed (5:25)
100 Easy
Pretty good IM time for me especially after at the end of 1600 yards of other stuff.

4 x 50 - :45 (Fly/Free)
4 x 50 - 1:00 (Kick/Free)
4 x 50 - :45 (Back/Free)
4 x 50 - 1:00 (Kick/Free)
4 x 50 - :45 (Breast/Free)

200 Cool down

(3700 Total)

Swam w/ Dave. Pool temp 86+.

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400 Warm up

5 x 300 - 4:30 Descend (3:53, 3:45, 3:40, 3:32, 3:27)
100 Easy

6 times through
* 50 Free - :50
* 25 Fly - :20 no breath
* 50 Free - :50

3 times through
* 25 Free Kick/25 Free - 1:00
* 25 Free - :20 no breath
* 25 Free Kick/25 Free - 1:00
* 25 Free/25 Fly Kick - 1:00
* 25 Fly - :20 no breath
* 25 Free/25 Fly Kick - 1:00
50 Easy

400 Timed Pull (4:23) - I think this is my fastest 400 timed pull. I'm finally getting a faster turnover with my bigger paddles.

200 Cool down

(4150 Total)

Swam w/ Dave. Pool temp 86 w/ hot water being dumped into the pool.

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400 Warmup

4 x 100 IM - 1:40
400 Free - 6:00 (5:03)
2 x 100 IM - 3:10 (2:45-2:47)
400 Free - 5:45 (4:55)
100 Easy

400 Free - 5:30 (5:00)
400 IM - 6:30 (5:43)
400 Free - 5:15 (4:57)
100 Easy

400 IM Timed (5:23 PB! )
I wasn't really setting out to make a personal best and the pool conditions weren't right for it anyway. But I stayed with Dave through the 100 fly. That's kind of risky because I usually burn out when I stay on his feet. The last couple strokes of fly were tough but I was close enough to gut it out. Surprisingly I didn't suffer too bad on the back stroke and was ready to go for breaststroke. Figured with the pool temp and end of practice, I'd be around 5:30 to 5:35. 5:23 was a big shock!

200 Cool down

(4000 Total)

Swam w/ Dave x 2. Pool temp 84-85. Wore my Speedo brief.

Workout called for free on all the sets today. I felt IMey so I substituted a lot of stroke/IM. Not everywhere though... I'm not making 400 IMs on 5:15 yet.

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500 Warm up

400 IM - 6:00 (5:40 ish)
400 - 5:45 (100 Free/100 Back/100 Br/100 Free)
400 - 5:30 (200 Free/100 Br/100 Free)
400 - 5:15 (4:55 ish)
50 Easy

16 x 75 - 1:10 (50 Stroke/25 Free)
50 Easy

400 free Timed (4:41) Felt pretty good overall. Had a couple rough patches (missed a wall) on the third 100.

16 x 50 Pull - :50 2 Easy/2 Hard

200 Cool down

(4800 Total)

Swam w/ Roger, Kent, Dave and Dave. Wore my Nike jammer. Pool temp ~83. This workout was initially intended to be w/o a break after the first 400 IM. I felt pretty bad during the warm up and never really improved much. Just too sore from too many days in a row swimmng. I'll swim easier tomorrow and then take Sunday off. After that, 2 more workouts until taper.

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400 Warm up

1 = fastest kick
2 = 2nd fastest kick
3 = 3rd fastest kick
4 = slowest kick

4 x 100 IM - 1:30 (made 1:20s... not feeling too bad yet)
4 x 75 kick - 1:25 (1-4-1)
2 x 100 IM - 2:55 (made them but hurting)
4 x 75 kick - 1:20 (2-3-2: I did 2-3-1)
400 IM - 5:40 (5:43 - now I'm in trouble)
50 Easy

4 x 75 kick - 1:15 (1-4-1: I did 1-1-1)
2 x 100 IM - 2:45 (not a chance for me to make this. did 100 fr/50 br/50 fr)
4 x 75 kick - 1:15 (2-3-2: I did 1-1-1)
4 x 100 IM - 1:20 (I did 25 stroke IM order/75 free)
4 x 75 kick - 1:10 (1-4-1: I did 1-1-1)
50 Easy
Was hurting pretty bad so I ditched the idea of making IMs. Didn't want to cop out completely so I mixed in some stroke. Still had trouble making the intervals. The kick on 1:10 was really tough. Made the first to but fell off the pace a tad after that.

400 IM timed (5:50) Pretty poor time for me but my body had shut down at this point. Kind of suprised I went under 6:00 considering how bad I felt.

200 Cool down

(4600 total)