Alex's swim journal

A little less than a month ago (see my 1/10/13 post) I did a broken 1650 in 27:05 (26:05 actual swim time), improving from November's 27:23 (26:23). Today I managed to drop even more time... down to 26:51 (25:51 of actual swim time). That's a 30 second improvement in less than three months. And the first leg (500) was 6-8 seconds slower than the first 500 of my January broken 1650. I'm tickled to death that after being on a plateau for so long I'm dropping 10-15 seconds off of this test set every month now. I added the 1500-yard-long ascending ladder of IMs to torture myself even more. Here's the whole workout:

WARM-UP:
400 EZ swim (about 7:00)
6 x 50 fr on 1:00 (moderate pace = :42-:45)

MAIN SETS:
Broken 1650 free (:10 rest after each step):
500
400
300
200
100
50
100--finished in 26:51 (25:51 actual swim time).
3:00 rest

IM Ladder:
100 IM on 2:00
200 IM on 4:00
300 IM on 6:00*
400 IM on 8:00
500 IM finished in 9:40-something
1:00 rest

COOL-DOWN:
3 x 50 free EZ

*Took an extra :30 after the 300 IM before starting the 400 IM, but I made up for the lost time on the 500 IM at the end, to bring the set's total time in at just over 30 minutes (I remember when I couldn't do 1500 free in 30:00 only a couple of years ago). The whole workout was exactly 4000 SCY in 85 minutes.