Fast Food Makes for Fast Swimming!

I figured after last night's semi-EZ practice, that John was gearing us up for a good one tonight.
We had a swimmer back from college join us tonight. He's a freshman at PLU (Pacific Lutheran) in Tacoma, WA. Said he was a distance swimmer, so I was kind of excited to have a training buddy for the day.

Warmup:
600 (25 Free/25 Breast/25 V-Sit Scull/25 Back)
(600/600)

16 x 50 SDK w/ fins @ :50 (odds EZ, evens Sprint) for me they were both about the same
(800/1400)

5 x 200 Free Pull @ 3:00 (held 2:07-2:10s)
The college kid was going to lead the lane, until I told him I was going to be holding 2:10-2:15ish, he gladly let me go. I was just testing him to see what kind of swimmer he really was
About 3 of the 200s into the set, Coach John had the quote of the night: "This is just the calm before the storm..." I just thought, "Oh boy, this is gonna be, uh, good".
(1000/2400)


Main Set ROUND 1: College kid said he wanted to lead, I didn't argue.


6 Rounds All Free of 1 x 200, 1 x 100, 1 x 50 on varying intervals:

• Round 1: 3:00 / 1:30 / :45
• Round 2: 2:40 / 1:20 / :45
• Round 3: 2:30** / 1:30 / :40
• Round 4: 2:20 / 1:20 / :40
• Round 5: 3:00 / 1:15 / :40
• Round 6: 2:20 / 1:10 / :35

**I was beginning to catch the feet, and probably could've passed the other guy in this set. I could tell he was hurting a bit.

200 EZ
As we were doing the 200 EZ, John erased the board and began re-writing the set again.

Main Set ROUND 2: The college kid was going to go, but I told him I'd take the lead on this round.


6 Rounds All Free of 1 x 200, 1 x 100, 1 x 50 on varying intervals:

• Round 1: 2:50 / 1:30 / :60
• Round 2: 2:40 / 1:30 / :55
• Round 3: 2:30 / 1:30 / :50
• Round 4: 2:20** / 1:30 / :45
• Round 5: 2:15 / 1:30 / :40
• Round 6: 2:10 / 1:30 / :35

(4400/6800)
I cramped on the 200 w/ 2:10 interval pushing off for the final 50, though I was probably on track to make the interval before that happened. I ended up missing it badly, but swam out the rest of the set EZ.
**College boy got tired or something here and got out. I think he was getting worked by a 35 year old...

200 EZ

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7000 Yards

A great set, and something I've really been wanting to do for a while, a pure distance oriented all free set. Also, the largest yardage practice I believe I've done to date.