Ande's Swimming Blog

Friday Dec 12th 2008

today was a special treat,
I trained with the UT team
Eddie Reese coached

Roque Santos with Blue Seventy is in town for Jrs we're having lunch at the UT club

Made my 2009 SCY events, meets and training plans (below)

hope to blog this practice later today at:
http://andesswimmingblog.blogspot.com


Today's Practice

6:30 pm - 8:00
eddie coached
swim center SCY diving well
swam with Garrett Weber Gale and Dale Rogers
beside Hill Taylor and a couple other UT swimmers
right now they are in finals so the whole team wasn't there
dove in around 6:32

warm up

didn't hear the warm up but it was on a fairly fast pace, pretty long
we did several rounds of
4 x 25
50's
75's
100 IM drill
(i didn't ask what we were doing I just dove in and did what Garrett did, but we weren't getting much rest, didn't have much time to chat)

kick set

2 x 100 k on 1:30
2 x 50 k on :50
2 x 50 easy on 1:00

2 x 100 k on 1:25
2 x 50 k on :50
2 x 50 easy on 1:00

2 x 100 k on 1:20
2 x 50 k on :50
2 x 50 easy on 1:00

2 x 100 k on 1:25
2 x 50 k on :50
2 x 50 easy on 1:00

2 x 100 k on 1:30
2 x 50 k on :50
2 x 50 easy on 1:00


8 x 25 k on :20
made it


6 x 25 SDK
no breath on :30
made it


swim 10 minutes with a tube

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My spring 2009 training plans are taking shape:

now till mid February
regular training
focus on 200 fr, 200 bk & 200 IM and sprints

Rest 2 weeks for the

USS Texas Grand Prix Th/Fri/Sat
Mar 5 - 7 in
Austin, TX

Switch to strength and speed training
focus on 50 fr, 50 bk, & 100 IM

Rest 1 week for

3/27/ - 3/29/09
USMS South Central Zone Championships -
Southlake, North Dallas

resume strength and speed training
rest 2 weeks for

5/7 - 5/10/09
USMS 2009 Short Course National Championships
Fresno, CA