One of those bad on call mornings. Just tried to get some yards in before getting paged out. 10x100@2:00 Free 1/2 pull 1/2 kick 500 Free kick w/fins every 3rd moderate pace 10x50@1:00 Fly w/fins 6 kicks between strokes 5x100@1:50 Back w/paddles 500 as 50 Free, 25 6 kick switch, 50 Free, 25 6 kick switch, 100 1 arm fly alt arms each lap, 50 Free, 25 double arm back, 50 Free, 25 double arm back, 50 free That was all I could get in then it was race to work. Total 3000 yards
Our Y pool is closed for the week for some basic repairs, so drove 35 minutes to swim with my masters team. Good to see everybody. May try to make it up there once a week between now and Auburn. One of the swimmers on the team knows a ton about local history, so it was cool to hear him share some interesting info while we were all recovering in the hot tub after practice. Warm-up: 100 easy (I was late as usual.) Pyramid swim (85-90% effort on each swim): 50 free on 1:00 100 back on 2:00 150 free on 3:00 200 back on 4:00 250 kick with fins on 5:00 300 free on 6:00 250 kick with fins on 5:00 200 back on 4:00 150 free on 3:00 100 back on 2:00 50 free on 1:00 100 easy 8 x 50 - on 1:30 - 2 of each stroke, 25 drill/25 swim - drills: on fly did 3 rt/3 lt/3 full; on back one arm only; breast - pull with flutter kick, pull with dolphin kick; free - fist drill, heads-up. 100 easy 4 x 25 fly on 1:00 all-out 100 easy 2700 yards
AQUA - UMHS 05:10-06:30 PM Warm 800 (200FR, 200P, 200K, 200IM Drill) 200's 5x200 evens IM, odds FR on 3:30 (FR 2:30-2:40, IM 2:50) Kick (500/2300) 10x50 K with small weight ball 1-5 alt fly & BR kick, 6-10 BK kick on 1:15 IM 75's (675/2975) 9x75on 1:15 1. 50FLY/25BK 2. 50BK/25BR 3. 50BR/25FR Cool 200 (200/3175) Pool was closed last week due to snow, which resulted in a power outage. The "new pool heater system" took several days to get the pool heated to 78 degrees. The snow broke a lot of branches and fell trees on power lines. Last Monday the temp dropped to 19 degrees. In the employment world; I accepted a position in downtown Sacramento. Starts 2 days after Im surplused from AT&T.
Well I drove up to Boston to keep Fort company, see some swim buddies and swim 3 races. Turned out to be a fair meet for me. PBS in 3 events on SCM outright and 2 PB's on conversions. I also scored some good points which was nice. 50 BR 37.69 200 BR 3:08.77* 50 FR 29.99* *B70 swims, thanks to Fort..I assume most have seem the glam shots of me wrestling into the suit by now. All in all a good meet barring my either jamming my wrist on a turn/finish or straining it in pulling the B70 over my a$$. Anyhow...here are the swims below if you wish to view and comment. 50 BR [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6jAflyoglg"]YouTube- Stud's 50 evil[/ame] 200 BR [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDBBl8lmgAk"]YouTube- P1010835[/ame] 50 FR [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybRzZL-opmo"]YouTube- Stud's 50 free[/ame]
Updated December 15th, 2009 at 08:34 PM by SwimStud
After taking a rest of more than a week, I decided it was time to get back to work. Was going to do a short swim at a hotel pool this morning but couldn't get my truck to start. So I missed making it to the pool. Am going to try again tomorrow. But I did go to the gym for a spinning class during my lunch break. It was short, only 30 minutes but got me sweating and breathing hard and my legs were feeling it.
Q: How do you get to Carnegie Hall? A: Encourage your spouse to practice, practice, practice! At least that’s worked for me. The choir that my husband sings in is doing the Messiah tonight, so I get to go hear a wonderful performance. Singing and swimming both involve breath control. Maybe if we sang more, we’d become better swimmers. To test that, and in the spirit of the season, I propose the following Underwater Caroling Set. Here’s the rules: 1. Gather a group of swimmers—a lane’s worth works well. Count how many you are, and multiply this number times three. The result is the number of 100s everyone will swim. Decide on an interval that allows for some chatting between swims—2:00 or so is good. So 4 swimmers doing this set would swim 12 x 100 @ 2:00. 2. On each 100, the designated singer sings a holiday song while swimming. Swimmers take turns being the designated singer. Non-singers try to guess what song is being sung. (Note: Songs with natural breaks for breathing work best, i.e., “Jingle bells (breathe) Jingle bells (breathe) Jingle all the way (breathe).” Songs with longer phrases—think “Chestnuts roasting on an open fire”—require better breath control.) 3. At the end of each 100, everyone makes their best guess as to what they were hearing, and the singer reveals what song they were singing. If you’re keeping score, award yourself one point for correctly guessing a song, and two points for singing a song that was correctly guessed. 4. At the end of workout, the swimmer with the most points gets to buy the first round of eggnog. Cheers!
For Sunday, I did have 3 secret goals and I got them all. First, I wanted to go faster in the 50 fly than last year when my time trial was thrown out. Second, I had one stretch goal of going under 1:10 in the 100 back. And, third, I wanted to do a fast 50 evil split and possibly make top ten in that event. Here's how it went: 50 fly, 29.6 This was my first head to head race against KPN. We were in lanes 5 and 6. She got me on the start and breakout. I caught up in the second length and had a great last 15 yards. Couldn't see the wall clearly and short stroked the finish. She got me by .08. Cheryl Kupan said I should have glided in and would have won. Greg Shaw said it wasn't clear. I have trouble picking up the wall when I'm not breathing and my head's down. But I was super happy with the time. Hopefully, Q won't be disappointed as he instructed me to be mid 29. 100 back, 1:09.5: I always get nervous swimming 100 back in SCM b/c it's so much longer and painful. But I just reminded myself to go out faster and kick. I think I executed pretty well. Earlier this year, I went 1:10.9, going out in 34.9 and back in 36.0. This time, I went out in 33.5 and came back in the same time. So my entire improvement came from not dogging the first 50. I pretty much stuck to my kick pattern, except that I jammed the second turn, was way too close to the wall, and had trouble getting into kick mode. So I SDK'd 14-13-10-10 per 25. I was really happy with my time as my one stretch goal for this meet was to go under 1:10 and it's a 1.4 second improvement. Comparatively, I went 1:13.9 at the meet in 2007. The SDK work has paid off and I feel like I redeemed myself after that sub par cramp filled 100 back at LCM Nats. 50 breast, 37.6: I submitted a split request and did the 50 evil as part of the 100 evil. I rocked my pullouts, had good breakouts and hit the pad at 37.6. I was so psyched! I was hoping for a high 38. So this was a huge surprise. A friend just pointed out that this is currently the #1 time in the nation in my age group. Shocker. lol Chris S. said I was fairly close to the 15 meter mark on my first pullout. The less evil stroking, the better! I think this roughly converts to a 33.5, so this is .6 faster than my Zone Record in the 50 evil from last April. I may retire from evil after the suits are gone, however. I think they help me on evil relatively more than other strokes because I have such a weak breaststroke kick. I discussed this with Mike Ross and Mike Schmidt of ME masters. Mike S. improved his IMs by doing 500 yards of evil kicking in practice. Breaststroke is such an exhausting power stroke that it seems the only way to improve is doing more of it. I am slightly worried about my split request though, as I don't see the split listed in the results. I hope this is just a printing error, as everyone saw my time on the scoreboard and I clearly hit the pads hard. I have sent an email. 50 free, 28.2: I was very tired, but decided to give the 50 free another go, as I missed the turn on Saturday. Same result: had a lousy turn again and did the same time. I just can't pick up the bulkhead at this pool for free. Still, for my 7th swim of a two day meet, this was a good time. I didn't have any energy left for a 100 free anyway. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Commentary: I was thrilled to do 6 PBs. If I could have one do over it might be 50 back. I would have loved to go 30.9. But that is really nit picking, as 31.1. is very speed and likely comparable to my 27.9 in yards and 31.99 in meters. I may use Chris' ratings calculator later to see what my percentages are. Just have too much to do right now. And, predictably, I'm very tired from the meet. I will not be hitting the pool today. Just resting. And back to the shopping.
Updated December 14th, 2009 at 09:04 PM by The Fortress
Monday Dec 14th 2009 Sunday Lifted Weights but Did not swim check top times Longhorn Masters Christmas Holiday Schedule Mon. Dec 21st 6:30-8 am; 12-1:15 pm Tues. Dec 22nd 6:30-8 am; 5:30-6:45 pm Wed. Dec 23rd 6:30-8 am; 12-1:15 pm Thurs-Sat Dec 24-26 OFF Sun. Dec 27th 12-1:15 pm Mon. Dec 28th 6:30-8 am; 12-1:15 pm Tues. Dec 29th 6:30-8 am; 5:30-6:45 pm Wed. Dec 30th 6:30-8 am; 12-1:15 pm Thurs. Dec 31st 6:30-8 am; 5:30-6:45 pm Fri. Jan 1st 12-1:30 pm(only 1) Sat. Jan 2nd 7:30-9am Sun. Jan 3rd 12-1:15 pm return to normal schedule Mon. Jan 4th mornings will be 6:30 - 8am Mon - Fri (at least until MLK day) TODAYS SWIM PRACTICE Whitney coached 5:30 - 7:00 Main Pool north end, swam with nate, Brandon, Tyler & Brad Next to todd, doug Amy & Ned dove in on time wore brief 1000 warm up 8 rounds of 100 fr 25 stroke 8 x 100 on 1:15 400 IM 8 x 75 on :55 300 IM 8 x 50 on :35 200 IM 8 x 25 on 17.5 100 IM assigned 2 x 500 1) moderate, stop rest 30 sec 2) 30 seconds faster Did 10 x 50 K on around 1:10 held 35's 50 easy 2010 MEETS: January 15 – 18, 2010 2010 ST TXLA New Years Classic Austin, TX March 4 - 6, 2010 Austin Grand Prix Austin, TX April 9 -11 2010 South Central Zone Short Course Championships The Woodlands, TX May 20 - 23, 2010 2010 USMS Short Course National Championships Georgia Tech Aquatic Center Atlanta, GA Order of Events
The meet this weekend was called the "Last Chance" meet, but since I haven't been swimming this year it was my "Only Chance" to swim some good SCM times! I've been back in the water on a somewhat consistent basis for about 4 weeks now. I did a very mini taper, resting on Fri/Sat only. The only event I really wanted to do well at was the 200 back. I've been 2:38.9 tapered (Rutgers 2007), 2:39.9 not tapered (Albatross 2008) and 2:42 not trained (Rutgers 2008) in the last 2 years so I really had no idea what to expect based on my limited training and taper. 200 back is usually a good event for me so I was hopeful. The fastest time in my age group that has been turned in so far this year was 2:41, so if nothing else, I wanted to go faster than that. A PR would be nice, and a FINA top ten would be nice too since I've been around 11th or 12th the last two years. Friday Jeff and I did a short workout, about 1500 meters, I felt terrible. The pool was the normal 85 degrees and I just couldn't get into any sort of moderate pace. Oh well, maybe I was just tired. Wilson High School's new pool is just beautiful! It was so bright inside and totally different from the old pool. I did about 1500 meters of warm up, still felt not so good. There wasn't a pace clock around so when I did my pace 100 frees I had no idea what I was going. Probably a good thing! 200 back was my first event and I was in the fast heat in lane 8. Tom Patterson was in 7, Mollie in 6, Wookie and a few other familiar faces were also in there. Jeff came over to wish me luck and I said that "this is either going to be really good or really bad, I just don't know." The scoreboard was right on the wall over my lane and I knew it was going to be tempting to look. I took off swimming and hammered out a 37 then 1:16. Ok, I've NEVER been out in 1:16!!!!!! I don't even think I could have gone a 1:16 if I had swum the 100 back in the meet! I felt like I totally fell apart on the second 100, but according to my splits I really didn't. My last two turns were terrible, and I just gave it everything the last 50. When I looked up at the board and saw 2:35.24 next to lane 8 I went NUTS! That's a PR for me by almost 4 seconds!!!! No matter what happens with USMS and FINA top ten, this was an awesome swim for me and gave me a lot of confidence! Mollie had a great swim also going faster than she went at zones last weekend! Smiles all around! My splits were: 37.7, 39.1, 39.2, 39.1 (1:16, 1:18) 400 free was up next. Jeff and I had a bet two years ago...my 400 free vs. his 400 IM. I won the bet barely, and we both went 4:56. I had a feeling he would swim well, so no bet this time! This time, I swam an ok race but never felt in any sort of smooth pace. I ended up at 5:05.00 which is my second best masters time and better than I was expecting. But it hurt and I was wiped out afterwards! I'm not sure I really came down from the excitement of the 200 back. I was pretty wound up after that swim and even standing on the blocks for the 400 free, felt a little jittery. 200 free was next and my only goal was to go faster than I took my 400 free out. I ended up going the same time...2:29. Oh well. I guess I really only have one speed right now. I was about 8 seconds off my best time in this event. Mollie crushed her last weeks time by FOUR seconds cruising in at 2:13!!! I had to watch the fast heat from the warm down pool since I only had that heat and 3 heats of 100 back before my 400 IM. So, 400 IM....why do I feel the need to torture myself? 400 IM is such a fun race, except when it's long course! I knew once the fly was over that I'd be ok. Mollie and a few others were standing over my lane so I tried my best to hang in there on the fly. I heard her scream "kick" and was like, "are you KIDDING me?!?!?" She was really screaming "hips" because my hips had apparently sunk to the bottom of the pool. My only goal in this race was to not do any breaststroke kick on the fly and to finish the race. I finished in 6:00.13, a second faster than the only other time I had swum it when I was trying to impress my future husband at Albatross in 2007! Jeff went 4:58 which was awesome! I peaked at the board on my last 50 free and saw 4 something for him so knew he'd be happy! Jeff had a fantastic meet totally crushing the 100/200 fly and 100/400 IM. I'm not sure how one can race so much fly in such a short period of time. His turns in the 100 IM and general intensity just amaze me. I love watching him swim. It seemed that everyone had good times at the meet! The pool was excellent and the race organizers (Muppet and DCRPers) did a fantastic job! So what's next? I have been debating my 2010 over and over in my head. Do I make this a swimming year, triathlon year, marathon year? I think I've settled on 2010 being a swimming year. A pool swimming year with a few big meets and some open water too. I did enter the lottery for the Chesapeake Bay Swim and will probably do a few other open water swims and short triathlons, but am looking forward to having swimming be my main focus. It's been a few years!
Updated December 14th, 2009 at 09:50 AM by Julie Roddin
For the holiday season the kids teams request long course setup which I love but it always sends me into distance mode. Oh well. 500 Free 500 Free kick w/fins 500 Free w/paddles & bouy 5x100@2:00 Free kick w/fins moderate pace 5x100@2:00 Breast pull w/fins getting the dolphin motion 5x100@2:00 Free w/snorkle 500 Free every 3rd lap Breast Total 3500 meters
NE Champs, Day 1: Had an easy trip to Boston and even slept decently Friday night! Had a good Saturday, going 3 PBs: 100 IM, 1:11.5 Last year, I went a 1:11.8 at Rutgers (which was a very huge and unexpected drop). This year, I improved .3 on that. Since I only swim the 100 IM twice a year and don't swim it in practice, I'm happy with the time, though not the execution. My "plan" had been to improve on my second 50. (Last year, I was out in 32.7.) Er, I didn't really do this. This year, I was out in 31.9 and totally died on free. (Ande will say this is pathetic when he reads this.) My freestyle seems to fall apart when I'm tired. Chris S. noted that my turnover looked like I was swimming a 400 IM instead of a 100 IM ... lol. He also noted, as I have mentioned before, that my breakout on fly was a bit rocky. I'm not sure how to fix this without going off the blocks more ... I felt like this was a bit of a "getting the cobwebs out" swim, as is common for me on the first event of a meet. To improve in this event, I need to do 3 thing according to me and Coach Ahelee: (1) work on turns; (2) swim the 100 IM more than once in SCY and SCM; and (3) swim 100 IMs in practice. One year, I'll actually focus on this event. But, hey, a PB is a PB! 50 back, 1st place, 31.1: Last year, I went 31.7. I was seeded first here in Boston, and really hoped to win. And I did, coming in at 31.1! .6 drop -- which is a big drop in a 50. Probably due to better underwaters. I felt a little bouncy above water. Stud took a video of this race, so hopefully I'll post that soon. 50 free, 28.2 Best time! Last year, I went 28.5. However, I had difficulty on the bulkhead. I went into the turn just a touch behind the leaders and came out 2/3 of a body length behind. Completely blew the turn, too far from the wall. This is somewhat SOP for me on bulkheads. I can only think of 1 50 free in short course where I have nailed the turn on a bulkhead (Auburn where I went 24.9 in SCY). Otherwise, as Wolfy has noted, I'm a bit challenged in this area. This led me to think I may boycott short course 50 frees. Why bother with a flip turn? Long course 50 free is so much better. But, again, I am always happy with a PB and will take it! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Commentary: I had a fun day at the meet. Stud attended and was burning up the water. A highlight for me was loaning him my uber stretched out B70, which he used for his 200 evil and 50 free. He had previously swum the 50 evil in his cute British flag brief and gone a PB. I video'd all 3 of his races and took pics. So hopefully I'll get those up soon. Or maybe he'll even put them on his blog. He really swam extremely well, and I'm proud of him. Couple pics attached. I got to meet forumites Gigi and Swimmer Girl KT, who are both lovely and fast. (Thank you, Gigi, for helping me with my cap.) Re-met Greg Shaw, who is not only a fly stud, but the nicest guy ever. Mike Ross and I discussed sprinting, weight lifting, backstroke and joining Maine Masters. (He and Mike Schmidt (who is sooo nice) and Son N. seem to be recruiting. Wow, did they have a big contingent here.) I got to see Chris rip off some very fast times/WRs sans B70. And I scored some ultra swag from Rob Butcher -- two awesome dry fit USMS short sleeved collared shirts. He says more forumites must come to his meets to collect swag. On the whole, the BU pool is fast and it's warm on the pool deck. But the bulkhead, with all those Xs before the turn, confounds me. Glad I'm not really a pure freestyler. I think I have a slight preference for the Rutgers pool where they hosted CZ in 2007 and 2008. But I didn't have any outside lanes, so that was good. Good first day, happy with all my times. My turnover, however, felt a bit off. Stud noticed this on the 50 free too. I wonder if this was due to easing off on the sprinting too much during taper? Or maybe I have more power/less turnover from lifting? I did feel like I was getting off the blocks quickly and had power on non-free turns. If I had to do it over again, I might do more fast 12.5s and 25s the last 2 weeks. And I need to practice more race pace turns. I went out to dinner with Stud and some friends from Maine Masters (can I say I adore and admire Cheryl Kupan for her grace and toughness?). Then slept like crap last night, tossing and turning from 3-7. Par for the course after caffeine. I swam better on day 2, but am too tired to write that up right now, having just gotten back from Boston. Does anyone remember that I commented long ago that the compression tights and socks sold in tri/bike stores would find a use in swimming? Well, they have! KPN puts them on after meets and while traveling to reduce muscle fatigue. She had a fantastic meet BTW. On an allergy note, I stopped at Whole Foods to get some dinner on the way to my hotel on Friday night. Not sure what I ate, either the WF salads (biryani salad/w veggies and a bean salad) or a gluten-free granola bar with soy and possible milk. But I had a huge hive attack that night. Not cool. The rice krispie bars with malt didn't bother me at all. Thank goodness! I was very hungry before my last event both days. And I was lusting after pizza when Chris ate some in front me me today. I'm also lusting after his cool Kindle ereader device!
Updated December 14th, 2009 at 10:50 AM by The Fortress
My pool just posted the schedule for the holidays -- December 24 - January 3. Yes, it will be open every day, including Christmas and New Year's Day (short hours Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year's Eve and New Years' Day, but open). So I never need to miss a day becuse of the holidays. But here's the weird thing -- it'll be at 50 meters the entire time; no short course at all. The pool is usually set with two 25 yard courses. Even in the summer (aka long course season), the management only sets the pool at 50 meters three nights a week. So I'm trying to understand the thought process behind solid long course swimming in he middle of short course season. (The fact that I don't really like long course has nothing to with it -- we'll only a little.)
I've been planning to construct a feed stick since I saw them employed at the NYC Pro-swim this past summer. It was the first time I saw them up close enough and was able to identify the components necessary for a durable and effective unit that will travel well. A google search for "swivel cup holder" came up with several units that are intended for limiting spillage of beverages mounted on everything from baby strollers to motorcycles to bass boats. The list of retailers was frightening and included Target and Gander Mountain... both have stores in nearby Kingston. I started at the dreaded Target... the first person sent me to housewares, housewares sent me to the baby dept, baby to automotive.... a discount shoppers purgatory, and no positive results. I stopped next at Gander Mountain and found myself somewhat unprepared for display of things stuffed with menacing expressions... (and there were animals in there too). Could someone explain the reasoning behind camo fishing gear? Its not that I wasn't aware of the existence of such a sub-culture (if I may toss the word "culture" around so loosely), but to be in an enclosed space with dozens of people that consider day-glow orange the new black and enough ammo to eliminate every living thing in the county made me feel a bit out of place. Well anyway, they had the swivel cup holders I was looking for, and as I paid for them with a cc, I'm sure my name will be added to the Ulster County Militia's mailing list. Next stop: a big sporting goods store for a "golf ball retriever". I found a 12' extension pole with a little loop on the end. I don't mind admitting that the golfing section weirded me out as much as Gander Mountain. Tomorrow I'll round up some bits of hardware and put it all together for some trial sessions at the pool later this week.
Today I signed up for the One Hour Swim—not the national event, which needs no pre-registration, but our team’s annual extravaganza. The team event is coordinated with the national event—it’s done in January, and results and split sheets are sent in—but our event is also done as a fund-raiser for local charities. This year we are hoping to raise $50,000. The swim itself will be done on 2 separate days, using the entire pool and running 9 heats of swimmers (2 per lane) per day. Many people hang out for several hours swimming then counting and socializing (refreshments are served). From now through January, most of our workouts are geared towards training for the event. When I first started swimming with this team, I resisted the pressure to participate in this whole OHS shindig. It’s not my favorite event to swim or to train for. But over the years the event has grown on me. It is cool to hang out with friends, and to watch teammates who have trained really hard achieve their goals. And I enjoy being a part of a team that comes together to do good in the community. Sometimes I still wish that all this was focused around something other than swimming for an hour nonstop, but it isn’t, so I will train and swim the event this year alongside my teammates. I’m signed up for the 8am heat on January 31st, and I hope to go 4500 yards or better. Here’s the workout I did with the team today: 500 warmup 3 x 200 FR @ 2:50 4 x 25 IM order @ :40 3 x 50 FR @ :40 4 x 75 FR @ :60 3 x 100 FR @ 1:25 4 x 25 IM order @ :40 5 x 300: #1= alt K/S by 25 #2= alt K/S by 50 #3-5=Swim @ 4:15, 4:10, 4:05 12 x 75: odds FL/BK/BR @ 1:15 evens FR @ 1:05 50 WD Mr. Addict (first name: Running) just got back from some crazy 15K cross-country race in the freezing rain. BRRR! It makes me glad I'm a swimmer!
This was a fun meet. Lots of people showed up, and I think we won the meet, which is pretty impressive since the host team has a bigger team. I didn't see a couple of their fastest swimmers, but they did have, I believe, 3 National/World record holding swimmers on the same relay once or twice. And winning the meet was important, because it meant we got the most candy! I swam the fly on the Men's 200 Medley, the right hand side of the couples relay, the third leg and relay captain of the equipment relay, the back in the mixed 200 Medley and finally, the 3rd leg of the mixed 200 free relay. The only split I know is a 31 low leading off the mixed medley. I am really happy with that time, but I am sure if I went and looked it up, it isn't all that fast. Our breaststroker also went a 31 low, which I am sure is pretty fast. We are trying to figure out if he actually swam for UT... I ate lots of candy after the meet, and an orange. First and second place got their choice fruit or candy... Now off to the Christmas part for lot of more healthy eating. Temper tantrum 200 (from Friday USAS Meet) The pool was great for swimmers and sucked for spectators, there was NO deck space. So I stayed in the water, probably did 1500 easy, a start to check my googles were adjusted, a few turns in the competition end of the pool and another 500. All just trying to stay in the water until my heat, which didn't quite work out. It was 1:45 from when I got into the water to when I raced, which is great, but a little to long to try to just float in a competition temperature pool. I was very loose, but I don't think that was the best warm up. I needed less yardage, at a harder pace closer to the race. I did a lot of yardage at an ultra easy pace. There were two weird things about the race. I was seeded second, and the guy seeded first stopped at the 150. Didn't affect me, but it did go through my head, where did that guy go? The second thing is that the guys behind the blocks, a father son team, had me down over a second and a half faster than the touch pads. Because of this gap, I actually waited until the official results were posted to make sure what I saw on the scoreboard was the real time. It was. The plan 27.9x, 29.9x, 29.9x, 29.9x The race 28.09, 30.91, 31.25, 30.57 59.00/61.82 2:00.82 I kicked the entire way, which was good. I didn't kick hard enough long enough, since I still had legs at the end of the race. I went out a little too slow and let it drop off too much between the first and second 50s ending up at a speed that was not optimal for the back half. I also felt the pain in my shoulders and tris at the end of the 3rd 50, which is bad. This really tells me that I am swimming too much arms and not enough back. Correcting this would allow me to maintain a faster pace the entire race without dying. It also tells me I should be doing more lactic tolerance stuff. On the 4th 50 I started pulling with my back more, but not the best time for a stroke change.
We had an easy workout today, just the normal Saturday workout. 500 Free as 100 swim/pull/swim/kick/swim 40x25 as 10 of each stroke various drills 5x100@1:30 Free w/paddles & bouy went 1:20, 1:20, 1:19, 1:18, 1:16 200 Free Easy Total 2200 yards
Saturday Dec 12th 2009 check top times TODAYS SWIM PRACTICE Whitney coached 6:00 - 7:20 Main Pool south end, both bulkheads down swam with erin and paul next to nate, jon, & tyler dove in around 6:05 wore brief board said 5 x 1000 assigned 1000 DID 5 X (100 FR, REST 50, 25 SDK no breath, 25 easy ) 5 x 200 assigned 1000 did 750 assigned 2 x 500 did 5 x 150 20 x 50 4 on 35 1 on 1:10 2010 MEETS: January 15 – 18, 2010 2010 ST TXLA New Years Classic Austin, TX March 4 - 6, 2010 Austin Grand Prix Austin, TX April 9 -11 2010 South Central Zone Short Course Championships The Woodlands, TX May 20 - 23, 2010 2010 USMS Short Course National Championships Georgia Tech Aquatic Center Atlanta, GA Order of Events
Updated December 12th, 2009 at 08:23 PM by ande
So - Friday was a hard workout. We warmed up with a 100, then did 10 X 200 IMs with 30 seconds rest. The Asthma part of it was hard. My breathing was really taxed, but it was a fun workout. I did an easy 200 cool-down. Today I swam a 300 warm-up with M.O.S.T. Then we did: 6X50 free - switch to back, back flip turn, switch back to free 1/2 way down the pool 6X50 choice - I did free working on some pointers that the coach had given me. we then did the 12 days of Christmas - it went like this - starting with 12 laps, then 11, etc.: 300 IM 275 free pull 250 free 225 back 200 fly 175 breast 150 kick (I did breast kick) 5 Deep Bobs Feet first (We went to the bottom of the pool, got down to a swuat, then pushed up to the top with arms at sides ) 100 reverse IM 75 sculling 50 water polo stroke 25 - no breath 25 to get to the other end of the pool A really fun workout - I was able to do almost the whole 75 fly in the IM (my fly is weak) - I did a drill fly during the 200 It was a really fun workout with really fun people and a good way to start the day. No organized swimming for a week - I'll report why when I return. Until then: Happy Swimming
I'm only swimming 3x a week right now, but for some reason I don't understand, I feel pretty good in the water. Here is the workout I did today: 250 warm-up 100 breast on 2:00 6 x 50 breast on 1:00 10 x 25 breast on :45 - last 4 are kick 500 free - DPS and good form 10 x 50 on 1:15 - Held 30 or better 20 x 25 free on :40 - 1-4 are kick, 5-8 are breathe every 3, 9-12 are breathe every 5, 13-16 are heads-up, last 4 are 4 breaths, 3 breaths, 2 breaths, and 1 breath 2 x 100 I.M. - fast but with good form - 1:30 rest between each 200 easy 2800 yards
Updated December 12th, 2009 at 01:41 AM by elise526
I still suck at the 200 free.
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