A long day....two meetings after work.........I need a nap, but no time...yeah, I made it to practice! Nasti Practice 2-17-09 I liked this! When I do it on my own I add 500 swim/500 set of something. NASTI'S swim short most of the time. 1) 300 Warm-up swim freestyle 2) 400 Freestyle-7 min int 3) 4 X 100 Free 2:00 int 4) 300 Swim (I did IM) 5 min int 5) 4 X 75 Free 1:30 int 6) 200 Swim Freestyle 4:00 int 7) 4 X 50 Freestyle 1:00 int 8) 100 IM 9) 4 X 25 Free on :30 10) 200 Backstroke (arm relief) by myself 11) 5 X 25 Fly on :45 (Swim ahap with whatever you have left) by myself 2,625 "....you don't have to fight the water, just share the same spirit as the water, and it will help you move" Alexandr Popov
I've mentioned previously on the forum that I underwent PRP for several months in the first half of 2008 to rehab some labral tearing and a SLAP lesion on my left shoulder. Most forumites or other people I discuss shoulders with usually give me a blank look/reaction when I mention PRP. I decided on this treatment when PT and ART did not provide relief from chronic shoulder pain. Well, they wouldn't really. It was wear and tear, which, unlike tendonitis, is not terribly responsive to conventional treatments. (See, e.g., a post of Eric Hochstein on one of the recent shoulder threads making this same comment regarding tearing.) In any event, Dr. Jaegermeister sent me this article today from the NYT, which makes PRP sound very promising for athletes. Glad I tried it, as I believe my shoulder is significantly better as a result and I am no longer in chronic pain. (Not to say I still don't get occasional pain -- but it can be managed with RC exercises, fins and ART and I don't feel the urge to quit swimming or skip practices due to pain.) http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/17/sp...r=2&ref=health
I skipped the 30 minute "recovery" run that I was supposed to do today because I have done a few the day after long runs and really feel no value added to my marathon training and always feel so much worse after the "recovery run" than I did before. And I have followed all the instructions on backing off the pace, blah, blah, blah... Went to the pool instead in search of some recovery, but all I found was a hard set and a coach who really paid attention, which I thrive on... 400 warm up 3 x 100 (50 drill, 50 swim) was supposed to be kick/swim, but I will have no part in a kick set right now. 3 times through: 2 x 100 (1:20/1:30) 3 x 50 on 1:00 (fly/bk/br then bk/br/fly then br/fly/bk) 50 easy 2 times through: 200 on 2:50 150 on 2:10 50 on :50 This is where I started to feel really good, in a nice cruise pace holding around 1:13s on the 200s and 150s. 50 easy The next set we had a choice...you could either do a 300 or 200. Within that 300 or 200 you could either do it easy pace breathing every 3 or fast breathing whenever you want. I didn't commit to the 300 until I was about at the flags finishing the 200, but I did commit to doing it fast. I hate breathing to the left so much that I'd rather do a hard swim. So I did a hard 300 and came in at 3:37. That's exactly where I was in the 500 & 1000 races at the 300 mark last weekend. Too funny! 100 warm down 3050 yards total (I think, my brain still hasn't turned back on yet from the workout that left me speechless) Looking forward to the meet this weekend, and tomorrow's "recovery run".
Updated February 18th, 2009 at 11:01 AM by Julie Roddin
Congratulations to my brother Linc! He just broke the 50-54 age group record in the 200 meter breast stroke. His swam the race in 2:32.06. The old WR was 2:32.78 by Ben Doyle on 7/14/08. In an email, Linc credits his son, Douglas, for helping correct some stoke flaws: "Yes. This goal was outside my ability, but Doug made some important adjustments the afternoon before the race. The best part was that Doug could make the stroke changes AND show me how what adjustments that I needed to make before the race. I admit, I did not execute his corrections well; however, I cannot dispute the results. The race was at Univeristy Vancouver BC at the Gay& Lesbian "Love Meet." If you could come get some face-to-face coaching with Doug before your Nationals, it would be valuable. I credit him with my World Record this weekend." His son is the top ranked Division II breaststroker and enrolled at Seattle University. Thanks to Skype, Doug and I have also been in contact and he has given me some very good tips on my backstroke. I hope I can live up to my brother's standard for breaking records. Fortunately, I just aged up to the 55-59 age group. Who knows, with some breast stroke help, I may yet be able to swim the IM.
Not in the good way either. 40 mins elliptical. No swimming feel like crap but at least I got some exercise in!
As some of you may know, and others are perhaps discovering for the first time, Vlog the Inhaler, like Sybill, is a person of multiple, and for the most part delightful and/or pathological, personalities. We have, for instance, Jim Thornton, AKA, James Thornton, AKA, James S. Thornton, and various other anglosaxonate aliases of this sort. Born a white male Episcopalian country clubman jr., MasterJimmy (as he was known by servants and bank tellers alike) grew up understanding that he was made in God's likeness: indeed, he and his twin brother John were, in their own eyes and the eyes of the surrounding community, as close to the spitting image of God as could be found anywhere in the firmament. Oh, I was also known widely as Golden Boy. More recently, we have Jamesuardo, the Hispanic form of the above, a little further from God's image, to be sure, a bit tanner than the clubman jr., but one of the few completely original surnames in the Internet universe, and thus one of the few people who can get email addresses and the like at popular sites without having to add an endless string of random numerals and letters. JimThornton@hotmail.com? Taken, in fact, so taken that the first available facsimile is JimThornton27753qzx44rtlfgn99@hotmail.com But Jamesuardo@hotmail.com? To my knowledge, still robustly available! In even more recent times, following the adoption of atheism as my personal saviour and the epiphany that a white male Episcopalian country clubman jr. is, in point of fact, not the spitting image of God, but, if anything, the very antithesis thereof (not, mind you, that either God or Antigod now exist in the world of this defrocked former clubman who would no longer even want to be admitted to the Allegheny Country Club even if he could afford it and could find a single living soul to put him up for membership)--following all this, and inspired by the Nietzchian concept of resentiment (learned not from a primary source, but rather as such was explained to me by my still God-Like identical twin brother after John had taken a class in philosophy at UNC-Chapel Hill in the early 1970s), wherein the Germanic philosopher argued that what we want, but cannot get, is devalued, and its opposite held up as a virtue, thus explaining the "turn the other cheek" and "the meek shall inherit the earth" passive aggressiveness of the early Christian devotees, who wanted the power of their Roman bastard overlords, but had no chance whatsoever of securing this... Where was I? Oh, thus was berthed Jimby the Scrivener, who made up in utterly mild mannered ineffectual good naturedness what the former Clubman Jr. had claimed for himself in his "highest being in biological and theological evolution" birthright mentality. Jimby, nice, pleasant, not arrogant, not an in-your-face blackguard, but rather, at best, a gently teasing jokester whose most defiant of all positions was, as his famous scrivener inspirtation, Bartleby, taught him to say, "I prefer not to." And then make himself as deadweighty and immoveable as a stubborn toddler who does not want to be bodily removed from the toy store. Jimby has been a pretty good persona, all told. He lets me stalk the CreamPuffs of the world without inviting restraining orders. He lets me complain about my illnesses and IRS audits and the like without provoking a barrage of rotten vegetables hailing down upon his harmless head. But Jimby, in his submissiveness to his fate and general vulnerability to misery and giving up easily, etc. is not without his downsides. Jimby has his place, as does Jamesuardo and, to be honest about it, James S. Thornton, dethroned Clubman who, to be even more honest about it, would still like to play golf sometime before he dies, no matter how ugly and divot-marked the rough and fairways will inevitably become in his wake. But as the assortment of me's face the prospect of financial ruin and death, James S. sneering, Jamesuardo swearing, and Jimby maintaining he would prefer not to, it occurs to us that perhaps it is time for a new morph to emerge: one with the wherewithal to confront the challenges of the New Era. And on this note, I would like to introduce the latest neonatal form of me: Spunky Po'Boy McPunkerton-Thornton. I do not yet know that well my new aging lad who refuses to surrender but remains, cheerfully and indefatigably, a man's man and a lady's man, part rogue, part scoundrel, part rascal, part scamp, but 100 percent the kind of man that everyone, including himself, can't help but like. Beyond this, I am not sure what kind of guy Spunky Po'Boy is. Thanks to my kindly vlogging commentators, whose sagacious counsel has provided the impetus for this new me's birth. If you know of any attributes that you think Spunky has, swimming related or non, please feel free to let me know. Likable as he is, Spunky Po'Boy McPunkerton-Thornton is a work in progress. He needs guidance, perhaps more of this than Jimby, Jamesuardo, Master Jimmy, Golden Boy, and James S. Thornton, even working in concert, can provide. Perhaps some of you have met Spunky at some point in your lives, and maybe even have stories to recall of his rough courage in the face of adversity and difficult swimming practice sets. Feel free to make up anecdotes to share about me. I need to know how to be next.
SCY Solo 500 swim (alternated free/back 2x100-2x75-2x50-2x25) 200 IM drill 8x25 w/ 5 sec. rest (alt. free/back) 8x around: (I alternated back/free on this set, did not take any extra rest between rounds) 75 smooth on 1:30 (on back - 1:05-:07, on free - 1:01-:02) 50 all out on 1:00 (on back - :36-:37, on free - :32-:33) 25 easy on 30 pull 8x50 on 1:00 evens fast (buoy only, fast ones :34-:35) swim down 12x25 on 25 make interval (All free) 2800
David Gregg was on my team. I remember when he died, I wasn't at the meet, but I remember that on the day of his funeral the team put flowers at the end of his lane and then took them to the funeral. I remember talking to him at practice a few times and it was clear that he was passionate about swimming. I went to this meet last year, but it was just a few weeks after I had broken my foot. This year, in the midst of the hardest few weeks of marathon training, I decided to sign up and swim a few events. Good idea? Bad idea? I'm pretty sure it was a good idea. It was nice to have the meet as an excuse to put off 18 miles of running for a few days. The extra rest was just what my legs needed. Here's how it went: Saturday 1000 free- First time I've swum this in masters so I don't have a "best time" (unless you count my split from my fastest 1650 in 2007 at zones which was 11:37)...this is definitely not the last since I managed to set a new team record and would prefer to have a faster time listed there. I have a few years before I turn 35. I thought I'd be able to settle into a nice pace, but what I found was that I was wiped out after the first 200 so I just backed off and swam through it. Huge THANKS to Mollie for counting and continuing to cheer even when it was evident that my body couldn't be any farther from "race pace". Finished in 12:57.16. 500 free- Went a little harder and tried desperately to break 6 minutes. Ended up with 6:03. Oh well, first time since probably junior high that I was over 6 minutes, but there's got to be a first time for everything! Went to the post-meet social and then out for a few beers. It was nice to catch up with friends from both Northern VA and Richmond. Sunday 200 back- This is an event that I could swim in any condition, in shape, out of shape. I love this event. I took it easy for the first 100, tried some SDKs off the walls, was told later not to try that again. Negative split by 2 seconds and finished in 2:33.31 (1:17.8/1:15.5). That's fine for now. 100 breast- Becoming one of my favorite events! I actually raced the women in my heat and went 1:23 which converts to what I did in December at Rutgers! Pretty cool! 100 back- I didn't want to swim this. 100s hurt so bad when you're out of shape. Especially the 100 back! With much encouragement from my friends, I got up there and "raced". It wasn't my worst, and I was thrilled to be under 1:10. Went 1:09.8. It was great to watch everyone else swim...a few of my favorite swims...John's 200 fly, Jen's 400 IM, Mollie's 200 back, TJ's 100 fly, Muppet's 500 free (and watching coach Mollie cheering and getting his splits) and bummer to miss the entry into the water for his 100 back, swimming next to Allison Cz in the 100 breast and then having her thank me for helping her go a best time, Alison M. going best times in some of her events, Chris vs. Jeff in 200 IM and 100 fly, Jeff/Wally vs. Chris/Dave in the 200 medley relay. Monday And the main event...Monday's 18 mile run. After more than 10 hours of sleep on Sunday night and fresh legs that felt better after the swim meet than they did before, I set out from Jeff's house to run 18 miles. I mapped a route that would bring me back home after about 10-11 miles for a pit stop to re-fill bottles, gather nutrition, etc. Since there were no mile markers like on the running trails, I had to rely on an estimate of what pace I was running to determine when to stop. I figured on 3 hours (10 min/miles) worst case and knew that whatever distance I covered in 3 hours wouldn't do any harm, even if it was over. I felt great after the first loop, my pace definitely slowed on the second, but I still felt strong throughout the run. Towards the end, the hills (especially the downhills) were starting to make my legs ache. I reminded myself why I set out on this journey, and then resorted to telling myself (out loud) to "just keep going." When I finished the run, I was so excited that I nearly skipped down the road behind Jeff's house and down the hill into his backyard. Stretched a little before going inside. Once inside, I quickly changed, ate a little, drank some chocolate milk and got Tucker and Jeff for a mile walk around his neighborhood. Probably the best thing I could have done. Felt great for the rest of the day, mapped the run and it was in fact 19.1 miles. Quads are a little sore today, but going to try to do a short run and swim tonight! I'm signed up for the UMBC meet next weekend...500, 1000, 1650 free and 100, 200 back!
Updated February 17th, 2009 at 02:43 PM by Julie Roddin
Yesterday afternoon, I swam an easy 1200 meters or so and sat in the hot tub for 20 minutes. Hoping to get some lactic acid out. Today, I went on a 5 mile trail run. Like the klutzy idiot I am, I tripped jogging down a hill again. When I did this last August, I had a sore ankle for 3 months. This time, I seem relatively intact. Don't feel like I have my running legs -- I've run so little the last few months. (Checked runlogger, only 7 x the last 3 months.) I must confess that I walked on an up. I hate ups. Left hip is still a bit sore. I didn't notice it much during the meet. I think the drive/plane ride home from Auburn aggro'd it. May see if I can get in to see my chiro. I'd like it to just clear up so I can go back to kicking fast in the pool. Hitting the gym tomorrow. I may try to write down what weights and exercises I'm doing. If I can figure out WTH they're all called. Jazz has suggested that I do some weight assisted pull ups, so I think I may add these to the regimen. I read that skinny Laura Smith is dead lifting 150 lb, which makes me a complete lightweight in the weight room!
Updated February 17th, 2009 at 02:02 PM by The Fortress
Tue Feb 17th 2009 16 days till Austin Grand Prix Thu Mar 5th BANDS before practice TODAYS SWIM PRACTICE 6:30 - 8:00 whitney coached scy TSC main pool swam with tyler, max and Meg beside todd, brad, mike, nate, mike, larry, ned, amy, brandon, chris, & paul warm up 5 x 200 Main set assigned: 30 x 100 on 1:30 strong aerobic pace / best ave do an 100 easy after 10, 20 & 30 DID: Round 1 100 fast 50 easy 5 x (100 strong on 1:30, 50 moderate on 1:30) held 1:00's on 100's 100 easy Round 2 2 fast 1 easy 2 x 100 on 1:30 best ave followed by 50 easy on 1:30 2 x 100 on 1:30 best ave followed by 2 x 50 easy on 1:30 2 x 100 on 1:30 best ave went 58's & 9's on best ave 100's 100 easy Round 3 1 fast 2 easy took at least 6 SDKs on the dive, several off each turn 1) 100 easy speed from a dive went 57 2 & 3 skip 2 100's 4) 100 easy speed from a dive went 56 5 & 6 skip 2 100's 7) 100 easy speed from a dive went 56 8 & 9 skip 2 100's 10) 100 easy speed from a dive went 56 easy 100 assigned 500 did: skipped it got out and rested put on FS PRO Jammers 50 SDK easy speed roll start whitney timed went 24.4 50 easy NEXT MEET: USA Swimming Austin Grand Prix Austin TX Thursday March 5 - Saturday March 7, 2009 16 days away Meet format: Short Course AM, Long Course PM http://www.utexas.edu/longhornaquatics/meets entered the following events THU #05 100 Butterfly 52.63 #08 200 IM 2:00.32 FRI #18 100 Backstroke 54.05 SAT #24 200 Backstroke 2:21.04 #26 100 Freestyle 48.85 NEXT MEET: 2009 South Central Zone USMS Championships Friday March 27 - Sun March 29, 2009 NEXT MEET USMS MASTERS NATIONALS May 7 - 10 http://www.usms.org/comp/scnats09/ Entered it today
Updated February 17th, 2009 at 01:36 PM by ande
I got up late since I had to get entries in for the state championships last night. Still did a good workout in what little time I had. Things to start working on in next few months -Backstroke, kicking, distance and sprint free. 10x50 @ 1:00 free 1/2 pull 1/2 kick 6x200 @ 3:30 odds free evens back with paddles went 2:55, 3:18, 2:48, 3:05, 2:38, 2:59 12x25 @ :45 free kick every 3rd fast went 26,26,25,25 10x50 @ 1:00 Back held 49's 500 kick streamline alternate by 100 fly/free 5x100 @ 1:45 free as 50 with 2 beat/50 with 6 beat kick Total 3500 yards
Missed w/u 2 x 100 with 6 beat kick 10 x 50 k 5 on 1:10, 5 on 1:00 - we didn't finish these 3 x 200 Fr on 3:00 1 & 2 were just under 2:35 3 was about 2:30 100 ez 3 x (100 fast on 1:30, 25 ez on 1:00, 2 x 50 on :40 fast, 25 ez, 4 x 12.5fast/12.5 ez on :45) 100 ez Did not swim or kick on Thursday because I have/had swimmer's ear ... it hasn't been bothering me as much lately so I think it'll be okay. Swam at a meet at Indiana University on Saturday ... just did the 50 fly/back/free and 100 free. Not happy with any of them really ... HORRIBLE finish on the 50 fly - needed at least 1 more stroke, maybe 2. 50 back actually wasn't bad I'm going to keep working on that event. BAD finish in the 50 free, too. 100 free I just couldn't get going on. Sunday I went running - only about 2 miles, kept a good pace though.
Went the EPIC pool this evening. It felt good to swim in a wide lane in cool water. 20 X 75s 1-5 BR @ 2:00 (25 kick/25 stroke count/25 build) 6-10 FL @ 1:30 w/Zoomers (25 Left/25 Right/25 Swim build) 11-15 BR @ 1:30 (25 kick/25 stroke count/25 AFAP) 16-20 FL @ 1:30 (25 Lft/25 Rt/25 AFAP) 100 cool down. 1600 Yards (750 BR/750 FL/100 Easy)
I am not sure which one it is, but one of the Laws of Thermodynamics, if memory serves me even a little bit, says that energy runs downhill. Entropy is gaining on us all, relentlessly. Perhaps in the grander scheme, this could explain the past several months of swimming practice. I am wondering if anybody out there in vlog land might have less grand and more Jim-specific explanations for what is happening to me. I don't mean for this to sound woe-is-me-ish here, though I suppose that after playing the same instrument for so many years, it's not unreasonable to think that my words might seem to echo with at least a little bit of that atonal whiny soundtrack that has so frequently accompanied Jim utterances in the past. Still, I am hoping we can dissect me, and by extension, Everyman, to find out what is happening, if it is inevitable, or reversible, or slowable, or only likely to accelerate. Basically, the gist of my lament: my AT times are becoming noticeably worse. A few snapshots from my swimming practice log: Jan, 2003: 3 x 1500 on 20 min. in practice: times 19:20; 18:40; 18:28 Jan, 2004: 4996 yards in 1 hour postal meet June, 2004: 46 x 100 on 1:20 Sept, 2006: 4 x 100 sandwiched in between a bunch of 50s and 25s, the times for the 100s 57, 58, 57, 58.2 Oct. 2006: 4 x 200 sandwiched in beween sets of 8 x 50 on :50, the times for the 200s 2:08, 2:08, 2:07, 2:07 Jan. 2007: 2:08 for 200, 4:35 for 400; 7:08 for 600; 9:52 for 800 Nov. 2007: 2:17, 2:16, 2:16, 2:11 for 4 x 200 separated by 300s Jan, 2008: 4825 hour swim Jan, 2009: 4700 hour swim Tonight's practice: 10 x 100 on 1:25; 8 x :50 on :40; 10 x 100 on 1:20, then I gave up and went to B lane like an abused dog, unable to complete the rest of A's practice (4 x 200 on 2:40; 4 x 100 on 1:15; 4 x 50 on :35.) I am just wearied out these days. It hasn't yet ruined my shorter swims, but I don't know. Swimming coach Bill thinks it's psychological, that I need some kind of placebo to get me thinking positively and trying harder again in practice. But I still find myself coming to the brink of vomiting--surely this must be some sort of index of effort, right? I do not want to think that I am slowing down. I do not want to think that I am nearing the Great Resting Reward. I do not want to think that the IRS will be able to feast on my remains without me so much able to raise a finger, a middle finger, to wag in their direction and say, No, Jimby prefers not to! "Not to what?" asks the IRS lady, her breathe reminiscent of Jimby's other female nemesis, that damnable nurse Ratchett. "I prefer not to! Not to anything you want! I prefer not to!" Wagging that finger savagely now. In any event, I do not want to think any of this figures in a slippage in my AT time. I am hoping my vlogging viewers might be able to come up with alternative scenarios to propose, to cast me a placebo, if you will, to rally me back!
Well today was back to schedule... no rest for the weary. Got to the pool at around 10 and got stuck into the workout that was written up: 500 FR 9:00 went 7:35 5 times thru: 100 K 2:30 100 Swim 2:30 I did them BR, FR, BK, BR, FR. 5 x 200 3:45 as: 200 EZ 50 EZ/150 FAST 100 EZ/100 FAST 150 EZ/50 FAST 200 FAST 10 x 50 1:00 black lines (2 turns) 8 x 25 IMO on :30 300 EZ to cool Brief shower and into the gym to lift for 40 minutes: Leg/Calf press Leg Ext Leg curl Abduct/Adduct Bench Press Pull Down
Updated February 16th, 2009 at 10:11 PM by SwimStud
I love days off! Here's my schedule today, 1) woke up, read paper, drink coffee, compile grocery list. 2) Purchase chicken chili ingredients, yogurt, and fruit 3) Throw chili stuff in pot to slow cook. 4)******Great Swim at Carmel Aquatic Center! Some of the Lady Greyhounds were casually swimming so I got to congratulate them, Coach Plumb too! 5) Out to lunch with daughter #3. Teachers love to eat out for lunch, I only get about 15 minutes at school for lunch so I equate lunch in a resturant to a Spa! 6) Met daughter # 1 at Target and bought her a new bikini for spring break. 7) Called Hamilton County Courthouse, found out I do not have to report for jury duty tomorrow. 8) I am getting ready to go to pilates for a 75 minute session. I am going to get there a little late in hopes that all the rings are gone. SIMPLE, RELAXING, It doesn't take much to entertain me! Oh, here's my self created swim workout for today: 1) Warm-up- 500 swim concentrating on good turns and trying to hold streamline and dolfin at each turn. 2) 2 X 250 Free on 4:00 int. First one in paddles breathing every 3 strokes, second one no paddles. 3) 5 X 100 Free on 1:45 int. Felt peppy! 4) Easy 100 w/EVF paddles 5) 10 X 50 Free on 1:00 still peppy! 6) Easy 100 w/EVF paddles 7) Super 500 Free (25's done with Fly) 8) Super 500 IM Add-on (25's done with Free) 9) 4 X 25 Fly all out with zoomers on (I never wear fins but I need something to help me speed my stroke up. I am going to end each practice w/4 all out fly laps for the rest of my life and see if it helps) 3,300 Yards of feeling groovy
SCY with Carrie Warmup 600 swim alt 75 free/25 no free (on no free did fly-back-breast-breast-back-fly) 300 IM drill Main Set pull 8 x 75 free (w/paddles) on 1:15: breathe 3/5/7/25 (although I'm not very good at hypoxic sets I managed to do this one. swam these in about 1:05) 100 easy pull 3 x 200 back (no paddles) on 3:30 desc. 1-3 (went 3:20-:10-:02) 100 easy pull 12x25 on 30 (no paddles) odds free, evens back: every 3rd one fast (on free ave :20 with fast ones around :15, on back ave :23 with fast ones around :18) Cool down 200 easy 2800 Will do 40 min spin class during my lunch hour.
11:00 AM to Noon at the Jamerson YMCA (SCY) coached by Priscilla. Warmup: 200 free 200 scull 8x50 - 25 combination drill (wrist flip finish, fingertip drag, catchup, and breathe every stroke)/ 25 swim - I'm starting to get the hang of this drill and my pull feels great while doing it. Now to translate that pull to my regular stroke!!! Twice through: 6x50 free on :45 - I tried to hold 40s, which was my secret goal for Saturday's 500. I held 40 for the first 4, then fatigue set in and my pace dropped to :43s and :44s.4x50 free on 1:05 - I needed these for recovery, but I still worked on a long reach out front to hold a better streamline and a good catch.2x75 free on 1:35 - easy while trying to hold good form.8x50 on 1:05 - Working turns (pull with bottom arm first, which I do, and breathe on second or third stroke rather than first, which I don't do! Last two were easy warmdown. 2500 yards Notes: I may not get to go to any more meets prior to my move, so I will take this opportunity to work extensively on my stroke rather than concentrating on building endurance and getting a workout.
Updated February 16th, 2009 at 01:05 PM by Iwannafly
Mon Feb 16th 2009 17 days till Austin Grand Prix Thu Mar 5th I'll be in Orlando Fl Sun Mar 1 - Wed 4 edited the [ame="http://www.usms.org/forums/showpost.php?p=168158&postcount=938"]Suit Surge [/ame]a little today TODAYS SWIM PRACTICE 5:30 - 6:45 whitney coached scy TSC diving well swam with nate, mike & doug beside tyler, jeff, todd doug & ned warm up 50 fr 50 im 50 fr 50 k 200 im 70% dove went 2:20 4 x 50 fr on :50 desc rest 30 sec 200 im 80% went 2:15 assigned 4 x 100 fr on 1:30 did 4 x (50 easy 50 skip) rest 200 im 90% dove went 2:12 assigned 4 x 150 fr on 2:10 did 2 x (2 x 50) skipped last to to change into my new blue PRO Jammers rest 1:30 200 im 100% dove turned at 1:35 at the 150 went 2:04 assigned 4 x 200 k with fins did 3 x (2 x 50 easy) 200 k fast no board dove went 2:17 assigned 100 IM fast skipped it changed into B70 50 bk fast roll start whitney timed went 23.2 50 easy sat by UT womens coach kim brackin after practice yesterday she ran the half marathon in 2 hours watched Kirsty Coventry & Kathleen Hersey do the last part of 12 x 100 k with a board on 2:00 kirsty did all fast Kathleen did 2 fast 1 easy sat by eddie reese he told me he's going to clovis WEIGHTS (LIFTED after swimming at world gym in san marcos) bench 10 x 135 6 x 190 4 x 200 lat press 8 x 40 8 x 45 8 x 50 lat pull 8 x 167 6 x 207 5 x 215 leg press 10 x 180 8 x 270 8 x 320 BANDS short cut to Ande's Swimming Blog http://TinyURL.com/AndeSwim NEXT MEET: USA Swimming Austin Grand Prix Austin TX Thursday March 5 - Saturday March 7, 2009 17 days away Meet format: Short Course AM, Long Course PM http://www.utexas.edu/longhornaquatics/meets entered the following events #05 100 Butterfly 52.63 #08 200 IM 2:00.32 #18 100 Backstroke 54.05 #24 200 Backstroke 2:21.04 #26 100 Freestyle 48.85 NEXT MEET: 2009 South Central Zone USMS Championships Friday March 27 - Sun March 29, 2009 NEXT MEET USMS MASTERS NATIONALS May 7 - 10 http://www.usms.org/comp/scnats09/ Entered it today
Updated February 16th, 2009 at 12:16 PM by ande
I can't believe I passed the written test of my crash course scuba class! Spent the week-end sitting indian style on the bottom of a cold pool starring at a bunch of people looking like Monty Python soldiers waiting for their next "Knights of Neets" mission. The open water dive is the same week -end as my meet Feb 28. I will dive in April as my meet is more important to me. Got up a 600 this morning and caught the last part of the Charlotte Masters swimmers working out. I approached the coach and asked if I could join them Wed or Fri. and he said, sure. I warmed up Tried my 1000 yard event. It is what it is. I really need to improve my stroke Want to know my times on backstroke. Did a bunch of 50 breast. Might do this in the meet as well as 50 free. 100 I M 100 side kicks 300 kicks with fins. cool down
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