Pete's swim blog

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 and Roger. Pool temp ~85. Felt cruddy but swam pretty fast (for me).

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400 Warm up

4 x 100 - 1:30 (Held 1:10 on all 100 free today)
4 x 100 - 1:40 (Kick: 1st 25, 4th 25, 1st 50, 2nd 50)
4 x 75 - 1:10 (1st 25 Fly)
50 Easy

4 x 100 - 1:25
4 x 100 - 1:40 (Kick: 1st 25, 4th 25, 1st 50, 2nd 50)
4 x 75 - 1:10 (1st 25 Back)
150 Easy

4 x 100 - 1:20
4 x 100 - 1:40 (Kick: 1st 25, 4th 25, 1st 50, 2nd 50)
4 x 75 - 1:10 (1st 25 Breast)
100 Easy

4 x 100 - 1:15
50 Easy

200 IM Timed (2:34.5)

200 Cool down

(4850 Total)

Swam w/ Dave x 2. Pool temp 86. Wore speedo brief. Lots of 200 IMs today. Felt pretty good overall. My backstroke still needs a lot of work.

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400 Warm up
200 Free

200 IM - 3:15 / 200 IM Kick - 3:45
200 IM - 3:10 / 200 IM Kick - 3:40
200 IM - 3:05 / 200 IM Kick - 3:35
200 IM - 3:00 / 200 IM Kick - 3:30
150 Easy
Made all of these even with IM kick.

200 IM - 2:55 / 200 IM Kick - 3:25
200 IM - 2:50 / 200 IM Kick - 3:20
200 IM - 2:45 / 200 IM Kick - 3:15
200 IM - 2:40 / 200 IM Kick - 3:10
150 Easy
Cheated a little on these and switched to Br kick which gave me a much needed 10-15 seconds rest before the next IM. Made all the IMs but missed the last kick by a couple seconds. Was pretty tired after pushing myself on the last 200 IM.

200 IM Timed (2:35)

200 Cool down

(4300 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)