Woes of Aquasol 9/16/2010
by , September 17th, 2010 at 03:53 PM (1371 Views)
Aquasol
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Morning 5:40-6:10am
Warm 200FR, 200K (fr/br), 200IM drill, 200P
10x50 K w/ fins
Water was very warm, I did not feel like doing something serious with hot water conditions.
50 cool
1350SCY
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6:30-7:30PM
(Practice was from 5:30-7:00pm)
Evening
Warm 50
4x50 BR (25 drill/ 25swim)
5x50 BK (25 drill/25 swim)
5x100 P on 1:30 (1:15, 1:12best)
10x50 Fly K on 1:00 (5 on side, 5 on back)
8x50 Pace on 1:00 (did :39, then held :33 with a :34 here and there)
100 cool
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This week was full of set-backs, On Monday the heater turned off over the weekend due to a power outage, and on Tuesday morning there wasn't a practice, then area High schools have started there water polo meets and kicked us out on Wednesday, anyways the Seniors and level 3 got to practice but the Masters were told to come in in the mornings.
Since the water polo team from another high school uses our pool, and breaks lane lines, leaves a mess on the desk, their coach is a rotten egg etc... it squeezes the groups together, so our Masters ends up with 6 to 7 in a lane of all abilities. I usually sit out practice until the noodlers leave at 6:30pm and 3 lanes are free'd up, then most of the fitness/rec swimmers leave so it makes it easier to hit the intervals.
Since things have been so messed up at Aquasol, Ive been thinking of going to mornings at Folsom. I won't get much coaching except to make sure I don't drown and there will be workouts on a board with a lot of fast swimmers to make me look even slower, but it just a thought. Its tough getting in a good workout regularly enough to increase my VO2 max and conditioning and strength. Seems if I miss a few days it can be detrimental to an already sucky ability.
Ive got a meet in one week and I really needed to hit it hard this week, so I could have the week prior to the meet to do a slight taper. I found out later that Wednesday night, "the NO Masters allowed after the water polo meet night", that the pool was nearly empty.









