Fast Food Makes for Fast Swimming!

Not sure exactly what time I started my workout, but it was 5:25-5:30pm. My set was borrowed from JBS's blog earlier today.
Start time was relavant, because the whole workout is on interval, and keeps you going for the most part on as fast of a pace as you can handle. So in a sense, you decide how much pain you want to endure.


The Set...from JBS:

Decided to do the swim/swim set

start at 2:15; two swims -- 150/125. Drop 5 seconds after each pair, drop a length when you get less than 5 seconds rest on the longer distance
150/125: 2:15, 2:10, 2:05, 2, 1:55, 1:50, 1:45 (1925)
125/100: 1:40, 1:35, 1:30 (675/2600)
100/75: 1:25, 1:20, 1:15, 1:10 (700/3300)
75/50: 1:05, 1, :55, :50 (500/3800)
50/25: :45, :40 (150/3950)
did one 50 on :35 (went :32), then pushed off for an easy 50 cool down (100/4050)

No warmup, just get right to it.
I chose to do 150/150s for the first few rounds just to start aerobic with the same amount of rest, and then start hammering them out. I was completely lost as far as how much yardage I'd been completing during the set (which probably was a good thing). Had my mind known that I'd gone well past 3000 yards, it would've been telling my body to start quitting.

Interval - Distance Swum (2 swims on each interval - first swim go, second swim relax)
2:15 - 150/150
2:10 - 150/150
2:05 - 150/150
2:00 - 150/150 (first 4 rounds held roughly 1:45-1:46s)
1:55 - 150/125
1:50 - 150/125
1:45 - 150/125 (went 1:43)
1:40 - 125/100
1:35 - 125/100
1:30 - 125/100 (went 1:26)
1:25 - 100/75
1:20 - 100/75
1:15 - 100/75
1:10 - 100/75 (went 1:08)
1:05 - 75/50
1:00 - 75/50
0:55 - 75/50
0:50 - 75/50 (went :48)
0:45 - 50/25
0:40 - 50/25
0:35 - 50/25 (went :31)
0:30 - 50/25 (went :28)

100 EZ cool down

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4300 Yards - WOW!! I didn't even realize I'd gone that far during the set, and i finished it at 6:25pm, so it was somewhere in the range of 55-60 minutes in length of a continuous set. What a good one. My body was hitting a wall somewhere around the 1:20ish intervals. Almost getting painful, but I had to keep going. I was lucky that the YMCA lap lanes were good tonight. The final half hour I had public swim right next to me across the laneline, and had the beachball in my lane a few times. I saw the kids start to come after it, but that was at the point of my final 75/50 round, so i was moving up on them fast. I felt myself hit the ball with an armstroke, and I'm sure it went sailing somewhere. hehehe purely by accident, but I liked it anyway. :devilishsmirk:

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We also got the timelines emailed to us for the upcoming USAS meet this weekend here in town (it's attached below). I like it because I'll be able to get a lot of work done this weekend as well, which means plenty of OT for the week, PLUS three days of swimming in 10 events!

The plan:

Friday

• get out of work at 11:00am
• warmups at 12:00 noon (only have to be here because of 800 Free checkin)
• 400 IM 2:30ish
• 800 Free 4:00ish
• go home (family life)

Saturday

• 5:00am-1:30pm OT work. gotta love $$$
• pool around 3:30pm warmup a couple length in the deep tank
• 50 Fly 4:30ish
• 200 Fly 6:45ish
• 200 Breast 7:50ish
• 400 Free 9:40pm-ish!!! It's gonna be dark outside, good thing there's lights out there!

Sunday

• sleep in
• go to pool 2:00-2:30pm-ish (warmup in deep tank)
• 100 Fly 3:00ish
• 200 IM 5:00ish
• 200 Back 6:15ish
• 200 Free 7:00pm-ish

Should be a good weekend! 10 fast swims in LCM. This will be my "Omaha" meet of the summer. After this, I don't count on swimming too much. I'll try to do a couple days a week (if I can) purely for maintinence so I don't pack on too many pounds over the summer. Work's gonna get hectic with the cherry harvest starting in about 2 weeks. OT...here we come!