Ande's Swimming Blog

Fri Mar 30, 2012

Started today with 6:30 fast Friday practice
Didn't train in taper lane today (my choice)
Whitney coached
Swam with Todd beside the taper lane
Dove in 6:41ish
I've had nagging pain in my left hip
Sometimes I don't feelt at all & when I ve certain ways it flairs up

Still weighed way too much this morning
Been making bad food choices lately
Really need to pay attention & not get carried away
Pool set up LCM

Warm up was 5 4 3 21 ( swim till 6:58)
Probably went around 800 mostly freestyle

Assigned: 5x100 choice at ____% effort &
_______ interval (both changed each round)
R1 80% 2:00
R2 85% 2:10
R3 90% 2:20
R4 100% 2:30
Each round followed by
50 fast choice on 1:00
50 easy on 2 or 3:00

Did:
round 1 fr swam alll, held 16's & 17's
Round 2 fr swam 4 skipped #4 held 14's & 15's
Round 3 fr swam 3 skipped 2&4, held 12's
Round 4 skipped all 5,
did 50 FL easy speed from a dive went 28

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Meet drove up to south lake for zones
Entered 4 iM & 1650
Pretty much planned on swimming the 4 IM & scratching the 1650
But I signed in for both

When I stepped up for the
4 IM I just wasnt feeling it, i raced beside a 32 year old who entered with a 4:20 & went 4:16

maybe i went slow because:
my hip hurt,
The pool was warm,
I didn't have Tyler, Ross Davis, or Jim Sauer to race,
I had the 1650 next & thought "dont get too tired"
My head wasn't in the game
The guy next to me got away & I didn't race or try to catch him

FL 61 cruised it

BK 71 2:12.8 way too slow, cruised it

BR 77.9 just swam easy speed with long glides instead of working it, turned at 3:30.7

FR finished at 4:34.5, just 2 beat kicked & cruised it
I'm disappointed with the time & hope to swim it again & go much faster
I event out really slow & never really got going

Distance Cum 50s 100s 200s
050 28.41 28.41
100 1:01.46 33.05 1:01.46
150 1:37.60 36.14
200 2:12.82 35.22 1:11.36 2:12.82
250 2:51.42 38.60
300 3:30.70 39.28 1:17.88
350 4:03.09 32.39
400 4:34.56 31.47 1:03.86 2:21.74
Avg 34.32 1:08.64 2:17.28

from SwimPhone

after the dismal 400 IM I walked up to the 500 free & 1000 check ins & scratched but now I'm leaning towards doing them, We'll see

1650
My plan going in was to desc 500s & work the last 150.
Went 18:01.37
swam smooth, started off a bit too brisk
Don't have splits' they weren't up as I was leaving, my pad didn't register on my finish
will post em later whe I can copy them online
Went out smooth breathed a lot but felt over heated as the race progressed
Swam beside Larry & Joe swam in lane 6 next to Larry
went around 17:44 in 2009 at Orlando wearing a B70 so 18:01 is a pretty good swim but I think my hour swim splits were a little over 18 min so I call 18:01 ok but not great, much better than my dismal abysmal 4 IM

1650 Y Free Heat 3 Lane 4 finals
Distance Cum 50s 100s 200s 500s
0050 00:29.20 29.20
0100 01:01.13 31.93 1:01.13
0150 01:33.45 32.32
0200 02:06.03 32.58 1:04.90 2:06.03
0250 02:38.93 32.90
0300 03:11.44 32.51 1:05.41
0350 03:44.15 32.71
0400 04:17.23 33.08 1:05.79 2:11.20
0450 04:50.06 32.83
0500 05:23.05 32.99 1:05.82 5:23.05
0550 05:55.69 32.64
0600 06:28.50 32.81 1:05.45 2:11.27
0650 07:01.05 32.55
0700 07:33.81 32.76 1:05.31
0750 08:06.71 32.90
0800 08:39.56 32.85 1:05.75 2:11.06
0850 09:12.35 32.79
0900 09:45.32 32.97 1:05.76
0950 10:18.16 32.84
1000 10:51.08 32.92 1:05.76 2:11.52 5:28.03
1050 11:24.04 32.96
1100 11:56.99 32.95 1:05.91
1150 12:29.90 32.91
1200 13:02.97 33.07 1:05.98 2:11.89
1250 13:36.25 33.28
1300 14:09.39 33.14 1:06.42
1350 14:42.62 33.23
1400 15:15.79 33.17 1:06.40 2:12.82
1450 15:48.97 33.18
1500 16:22.10 33.13 1:06.31 5:31.02
1550 16:55.48 33.38
1600 17:28.80 33.32 1:06.70 2:13.01
1650 18:01.37 32.57 1:39.27

Avg 32.77 1:05.54 2:11.08 5:27.69
Your last 500 was 5:31.47

From SwimPhone



Did some caffeine before my races & I feel a bit wired (12:44) gonna try to sleep now

Right now I'm leaning towards doing the 500 but it might hurt my 100 IM & following races, maybe I'll drop the 500 or the 1 fly
We'll see

Mar. 30 & 31, 2012
South Central Zones, SCY
South Lake, TX

Entered the following
(my impression going in was likely to scratch several like the 1650, maybe 500, 1 bk, 5 fr, & 1000 fr
entered more just to give myself options and there are no deck entries

Event
Number Gender Distance Stroke Time

03/30/2012
2 Male 400 SCY IM 4:22.70
4 Male 1650 SCY Free 18:59.99

03/31/2012
6 Male 500 SCY Free 5:09.99
8 Male 100 SCY IM 0:54.99
12 Male 50 SCY Breast 0:28.80
16 Male 50 SCY Back 0:24.99
20 Male 100 SCY Fly 0:54.99

04/01/2012
28 Male 100 SCY Breast 1:06.99
32 Male 50 SCY Fly 0:23.99
34 Male 100 SCY Back 0:55.99
40 Male 200 SCY IM 2:00.99
51 Male 1000 SCY Free 10:59.99

https://www.damswim.com/files/2012_z...ters_entry.pdf



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2012 Meets (I'm considering)


Jul. 5 - 8, 2012
2012 USMS LCM Nationals
Qwest Center, Omaha, NE
Order of Events


Aug 11 & 12, 2012
South Central LCM Zones
Palo Alto Pool
San Antonio, TX