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O give me lane, lots of lane, under starry skies above . . .
by , July 9th, 2010 at 01:43 PM (2040 Views)
This morning I went to early LC workout at Asphalt Green. Here’s what we did:
400 LCM warmup + bobbing and sinking
600 reverse-order IM, 100 Swim + 50 Kick of each stroke
8 x 50 drill: 2 fist, 4 tap drill, 2 dps
2 ½ times through
300 IM (50 FL, 100 BK, 50 BR, 100 FR)
3 x 50 kick (1st round FL, 2nd round BR, 3rd round would have been BK if we’d gotten that far)
3 x 50 easy FR, decreasing # of breaths by 2 on each successive 50
100 warmdown
Sometimes the numbers of swimmers in each lane at these workouts works out strangely. Today, there were 8 or 9 swimmers in each of the 2 fastest lanes, and just 2 or 3 in each of the other 2. By speed I would usually swim in the next-to-fastest lane, but today the range of speeds in that lane made efficient clumping unlikely (if the rest of the swimmers stay on each others’ feet, as they often do, I figure it really doesn’t matter whether I’m sharing a lane with 2 or 12 others, as long as I make sure I’m not in the middle of the clumping).
So I scooted over to one of the slower lanes and swam the workout there. That was fine for the drills—I’m a pretty slow driller—but on the IMs I was way too fast for the interval. So I compensated by doing double turns at each wall, and doing the vertical-axis strokes as 50 swim/50 kick. If I’d stayed in my original lane, I would have gotten in more yardage, but this way I got in some additional turn and kick work. It’s a trade-off I’m happy to make.
Sometimes I do wish teammates were less married to their usual lanes (not to mention their particular position within lanes), but it seems like it’s been that way on every masters team I’ve ever swum with. When I coached, one of the least pleasant parts of the job was trying to even out overcrowded lanes—there were always certain people you knew would have their feelings hurt or be in a snit for the rest of workout if you asked them to move down from “their” lane, and who even preferred swimming 7 or 8 in a scy lane to switching. I’m usually happier moving to wherever I can find good space to swim, and luckily in a lcm setup there’s usually somewhere that fits that description. Plus, I get to chat with swimmers I know less well, which is always fun.
This Sunday I’m headed out to the Wilton Summer Sizzler LCM meet and bbq. I’m signed up for 100 FR, 400 FR, 200 IM, 50 FL, and 50 FR. I’m swimming the 400 free just for the sake of doing all the events (minus the 1500) this summer—I predict that I will negative split it. The other event I don’t even have any predictions for, but I know it will be a fun day—it will be my first pool swim outdoors this season, and the Wilton folks always put on a fabulous event!
Good luck to everyone doing the Charlottesville swim this weekend! Stay cool and swim fast!
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